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- Info Wanted: Star Wars Phantom Menace Laserdisc or HD version differences?
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Some Laserdiscs are HD…
Some Laserdiscs are HD…
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. 😃
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Completely outdated and superseded by my other display units but it still beats them all, hands down, in its representation of colour.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. 😃
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:
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.
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! 😃
I believe I have the subtitles mostly accurate, as starwars.com made a “font announcment” when TPM was in pre-production
ITC Franklin Gothic Demi Bold, 69 point with -30 tracking
I haven’t got the actual scenes done yet due to me not having the exact timing and placement which I believe is in the “Z” bootleg (that I am yet to aquire), but just making a quick test makes it look about right. I also added the drop shadow, which is apparently either down and to the right, or just straight down. I’ve just made it down and to the right.
LOL… I’d actually love to see versions of the SW films with similar subversions for R2’s subtitles. 😄
Or has such a project already been done?
Does the UK Blu-ray contain the acapella at the beginning that’s been omitted from the MGM releases?
No it doesn’t, but it’s easily fixed with the soundtrack CD audio. Can literally overdub over the MGM logo on the bluray (on the VHS, the acapella is there, and so are the lion roars.).
Thanks for the confirmation. It’s irritating that MGM would do something so petty (not the first time though) because you can still see references to the Virgin organisation during the credits sequence… I shall follow your project with great interest. 😃
Does the UK Blu-ray contain the acapella at the beginning that’s been omitted from the MGM releases?
Late to this extremely sad news but RIP.
Almost PAL everything is sped up. 😃
It seems that MGM are a persistent offender in this field. They’ve also excised the entire opening acapella from their distribution of Electric Dreams, because of the accompanying animated sequence featuring the Virgin logo.
I’d much rather see a new studio add their logo in front of the older logos and leave them be.
Paramount did exactly that with the Cannon library. That’s the best approach, in my view.