Matt_Stevens

Guys… is it just me or is the audio for the Blu Rays completely messed up on disc 2? It sounds metallic, with a shrill, harsh kind of echo. Completely unnatural. It’s so bad I cannot stand to hear the audio at all.

I have the DVD’s and they sound better, despite being compressed DD. And while I no longer have the laserdiscs they did not not NOT sound like this.

For some reason disc 1 is nowhere near as bad.

Does anyone still have the laserdiscs?

Just to be clear... I'm not referring to the DVHS DTheater releases but recordings made from cable and satellite. 

How I wish I had kept my Bram Stoker's Dracula DVHS tape! The BluRay is an abomination.

Very happy to see The White Buffalo. What a treat. 

Hey anyone know if it's possible to crack DVHS recordings that are Copy Once protected? I have numerous never going to be released titles on DVHS I'd love to rescue to Blu Ray. 

I'm DLing now. This sounds amazing. 

Not on Blu-Ray yet. The second that longer version hits Blu-Ray I am buying.

dark_jedi said:

Matt_Stevens said:

I much prefer the MGM extended DVD cut from Europe. It is awesome... Except for two changes. 

1. It doesn't have the line, "Good... Bad... I'm the guy with the gun."

2. The S-mart ending is so much funnier. 

No questions that everything else about the longer cut is better. It's not fluff or filler.

Sounds like a good idea for an edit.

I would have purchased one of the European releases but since my absolute most favorite line was still not put into place I passed. So a special edit would certainly be welcome. :)

I much prefer the MGM extended DVD cut from Europe. It is awesome... Except for two changes. 

1. It doesn't have the line, "Good... Bad... I'm the guy with the gun."

2. The S-mart ending is so much funnier. 

No questions that everything else about the longer cut is better. It's not fluff or filler.

I agree 100%. The same with Cinema Paradiso. 

Flexicon9 said:

Shout At The Devil is airing October 24th at 6:30am on MGM HD (USA) EST.  From what I have read, the version of Convoy that MGM HD features is the full length cut as well and I can confirm it is a great looking print.  I have no way to capture these unfortunately.

Same here. I've no way of snagging them, otherwise I would. 

I have two suggestions...

First of all, TENEBRAE has a sensational HD transfer known as the Wildside transfer. Synapse and Arrow are releasing the same transfer on some SE's soon. But they will be mono. Now that's fine. The film was mono originally.

BUT... Anchor Bay did a very good remix of the film for DVD years ago. It's one of the only 5.1 remixes I actually like and you guys know I despise most remixes. However, the Anchor Bay DVD transfer was from a damaged source so it's missing footage and that means the remix cannot be lined up with the HD source. 

This is where maybe Team Blu can work some magic. I don't know if you can get that intricate with sound editing but perhaps there is a way to restore this mix so it can be muxed in with the HD Wildside transfer. 

next suggestion...

SHOUT AT THE DEVIL!

It aired on MGM-HD (I believe) and I had it on my old DVR. It was the only time I know of that the full length uncut version was shown and it looked and sounded terrific. Such a great film. A true classic and easily Roger Moore's best non 007 picture. Lee Marvin was awesome.

TOMBSTONE would be great if we could restore the longer cut. But I believe only the Theatrical cut has been shown on HD. The Extended cut DVD is riddled with Edge Enhancement and that is not something you can get rid of.

I have it, but I have not been able to check it. Sorry, DoomBot. My partner finished syncing our Halloween and I have been working on casting for my feature AND entertaining my just arrived from SE Asia mother inlaw. Life is CRAZY!

I'm super swamped right now, but the audio is done. It just needs to be upload and hosted. I'll get to it. Sorry to anyone waiting on it. I have like six projects simultaneously going AND my day job!

I have ZERO complaints. Zero. Zero Zero.

Will Swamp Thing have the lovely big bubbies we all have grown to love? 

No nudity = epic fail!

Not to be a killjoy, but a DVD mono tracks is going to sound tiny compared to the PCM laserdisc. 192kbps cannot compare to 1.5mbps.

Holy shit! Man I didn't hear that. Such a shame. 

It's basically finished. I'm just so swamped I don't have time to upload it anywhere, lol!

The Black Hole! I'm game. CRAZY bad movie with some scenes that are absolutely fantastic. Amazing production design, score, photography and sometimes vfx. 

Well, I really hate dubs, but if the quality is good, I'll include it. 

The additional scenes would have to be upscaled since there are no real HD transfers available. I am toying with ONLY doing a Supercop cut and restoring audio and subs to it without the additional scenes. Upscaled footage would be blatantly obvious. 

The mono mix is just a downmix of the stereo. But clearly I would rather use the stereo mix, which sounded terrific in Pro Logic Surround. 

For most of the video I will source from the OAR 1080p version released by Echo Bridge. 

borisanddoris said:

In other words...

http://i.imgur.com/IQpAbIx.gif

LOL! I love it.

Yes it is. I watched the full Extended BD the other night and loved every second of it.

Gents and ladies, I have searched long and hard for this LD, but continue to come up short. The ONLY true to the source Stereo release of POLICE STORY III was the Hong Kong Laserdisc (image at bottom).

The Japanese laserdisc is mono, which is useless since the theatrical release was in stereo and Jackie Chan’s first film with sync sound. The Hong Kong laserdisc accurately captures what is a pretty darned good sound mix.

Unfortunately, my quest to restore that soundtrack to some now available High Def video is proving impossible because no one has this laserdisc.

I am hoping someone here has this title and is willing to help me capture the PCM Digital sound or perhaps knows someone who owns this release.

It was a double disc set (they spread the film across two discs to charge more money) and looked like this…

Please bare in mind that the Criterion SUPERCOP laserdisc is useless, as it has the mono version of the soundtrack (and it’s terrible muffled and low in volume to boot).

Oh I get it. Sorry. I missed that. Checking it out now. 

EDIT: Ouch. I don't really have $350 right now. :(

Whoa! How'd you do that and who do I have to go down on to find out?! :)