JayArgonaut

What’s wrong with the Blu-ray that a preservation would be required?

The Digital Bits awarded it an A+

http://www.thedigitalbits.com/item/spirited-away-gkids-brd

You’re welcome. 😃 Mediainfo doesn’t tell me the exact audio and video bitrates for .TS files. If you know of a program that can, let me know and I’ll check them again.

Audio: English, 48.0 khz, 2 channels, AAC LC (LATM)
Audio #2: English, 48.0 khz, 1 channel, AAC LC SBR - visual impaired commentary*
Compression mode: Lossy
Bit rate mode: variable
DVB Subtitles: English

TPM: Overall bit rate: 3,759 kb/s
AOTC: Overall bit rate: 3,453 kb/s
ROTS: Overall bit rate: 4,125 kb/s
TESB: Overall bit rate: 4,091 kb/s

*Only TESB has the visual impaired commentary track.

Great! 😃

Unfortunately, I don’t have all of them. I recorded Episodes I, II, II and V during 2018.

The broadcasts all share the same technical stats:

Video: H264 - MPEG-4 AVC 1920x1080 25fps.
Audio: AAC (mp4a) 48000Hz (TESB also includes a 2nd audio track with a visual impaired commentary.)
Subtitles: DVB Subtitles.

TPM: 4.074 GB
AOTC: 3.758 GB
ROTS: 4.595 GB
TESB: 4.434 GB

The file sizes would be even smaller if the adverts were removed, so these are very likely on the lower end of quality, compared to the other HDTV recordings, but here’s some samples for you to judge.

There’s also the ITV broadcasts too, if you’re interested? Previously, they were cropped to fill 16:9 but in the past 2 years, at least, the films have been shown in their OAR and appear to have been sourced from the same masters as the Blu-ray and post-Disney purchase.

Checked my EPG, saw that this was going to air and recorded it. 😃

I’m well aware of that and never claimed otherwise.

HD LDs do exist, contrary to what was stated earlier.

Some Laserdiscs are HD…

https://dadons-laserdiscs.com/japan-hi-vision-muse

Yeah, I saw it on my EPG but I already recorded the Channel 4 HD airing last June and the Sky Movies broadcast that x5gb mentioned is much better quality. 😃

Chewielewis said:

Oh no, please don’t bring this nonsense here. Your threads were removed for good reason. 2 Years of spamming vaporware projects with nothing to show for it.

These KTP collections are so absurdly broad and ambitions but with zero details of what you plan to do or how to do it. We don’t need these here.

To learn more about what you refer to, I visited Fanres and had a look at the threads.

Wow… 😄

Ok, cool. Look forward to it. 😃

Is it possible for you to share some screengrabs of the different sources please? I am curious to see the varying contrasts of colour etc. between the releases.

Badum tssshhhhh! 😉

Ahhh ok, nonetheless, it might turn up on C4, never say never. 😉

(Una pregunta: donde vives? America Latina o EEUU?)

I’m amazed at Zenith’s history as an innovator in the electronics industry. It’s overlooked in comparison to others and this makes it particularly sad to see that they’re no longer an independent company.

https://www.zenith.com/heritage/

This was my desktop display workhorse from 2004 till 2016.

https://www.cnet.com/products/dell-e772p-crt-monitor-17-series/specs/

Completely outdated and superseded by my other display units but it still beats them all, hands down, in its representation of colour. 😃

How much is enough? There is always scope to sell us more, even if it reaches the stage that we’re unable to recognise any improvements. 😉

For example: https://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/4k-vs-hd-can-audiences-tell-the-differnce/

Interesting…

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/30/microsoft-apple-end-trading-market-cap.html

Which channels were these? Alternate/older masters frequently turn up on Channel 4 (UK), so I’ll keep a look out on that one for you. 😃

skywalkerfan101 said:

I didn’t know there were problems.

The preservationist described their problems with the Blu-ray release on the first page.

Nicely edited. I enjoyed watching it.

A couple of things, Vektor Grafix also converted TESB for home computers and they produced a conversion of Star Wars for the Mac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbY0s3qdtMM

Thanks! 😃 It was with great reluctance that I accepted its eventual passing. Watching the 80s/90s CBS widescreen OT Laserdiscs on it, was an absolute delight! My immediate thought was to consider looking for a replacement but at the same time, I had to accept that eventually, I’d want to have access to HD stuff.

Unlike my Trinitron: the Viera doesn’t have S-Video: and I can’t remember the reasoning that Panasonic gave me for its omission (yet RCA composite is provided) but I wasn’t impressed.

You might appreciate this:

Are CRTs Still Manufactured or Used?
https://www.thomaselectronics.com/faq/

Yes, I definitely saw what you did there. 😉

(On a side note, Zenith TV’s were not that commonplace in the UK but I did encounter them.)

In the mid 2000s, I connected my laptop to one of my CRT monitors and I was astounded at just how rich the colours, tones and contrast were in comparison to that of the LCD. When I discussed this with an engineer friend, he knowingly smiled and nodded and confirmed the superiority of CRT’s vs much of the LCD’s that were on the market and mused that in years to come, many consumers will regret disposing of their current CRT TV’s.

Till 2013, this model was my main TV:

A hefty beast, running at 100hz with 3x SCART sockets, additional rear AV input/outputs and front AV input/outputs on a discreet push open/close panel. The only reason why I no longer have it today, is because it died on me and so, I replaced it with a 50" Panasonic Viera plasma. I still have VGA CRT monitors and a spare (4:3) Samsung CRT TV - but it’s not a patch on the Sony. In a side by side comparison between the Viera and a CRT monitor, the latter still won out in terms of colours.

This afternoon, a double bill of 50s Brit films with, Waterfront and The Good Die Young.

Enjoyed both films but the former ended with too many uncertainties. I’m damn near certain that the latter influenced Kubrick’s The Killing and the Hughes Brothers’ Dead Presidents.

oojason said:

Enjoy it, mate?

I loved it, possibly more so after season 2 sort of lost it’s way for me for a while (after a very strong first season). Am very much looking forward a 4th season…
 

Yep, definitely enjoyed it, I probably should’ve elaborated. 😃

The deaths of several major characters took me by surprise (although one of them is, apparently, consistent with events in the novel) and to me, this was definitely a good sign of a drama that isn’t going to let the audience become too comfortable. I’m also really enthralled with the “East-West” cold war between the Japanese and their Nazi “allies.”

Also very much looking forward to Season Four. 😃

Season 3 of The Man in the High Castle.

Amusing and also interesting for Litemkr to analyse the technical aspects. 😃

It appears to be exactly the same master that ABC used for their airing. Of course, the picture quality surpasses the other clips online because it came directly from the channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPAnjUZRhl4

https://pix11.com/2015/07/01/see-it-the-long-lost-wpix-indiana-jones-promo/

Please do! 😃