Just one question though, What causes those little white specks of noise? How does that stuff make it into the video?
The White noise you describe is just dust and dirt from a negative image (like an original camera negative or an internegative) that when printed to a positive image becomes white. Make sense? Then the black specks is dust and dirt on the positive image.
Have there been any new transfers? Every one I've seen seems to over filter or smooth the video. What's considered the best transfer these days? I have like 5 and they all have different short comings.
Ben
I know what you're talking about when you say smooth the video, and there's really nothing that can be done about it since 70s television technology had that flaw in it in the first place. Not to mention the fact that it was recorded on VHS in the 70s.
By far, the best in terms of quality is the unauthorized KCCI-broadcast White edition with the huge DVD-ROM folder. The only problem I have with it is the menu is buggy in my DVD player and the music skips. Plus the buttons are really hard to see when they highlight.
Wow, I just checked out the Star Wars boards and those people are upset that the effects weren't upgraded ENOUGH!
I agree that it's nice that we can get the original series in their original form on DVD, but what's strange is how they're saying that they needed to redo the effects so they could bring the series to Hi-Def... I'm pretty sure the old effects were done in 35mm as well. I hope they preserved THOSE reels.
Originally posted by: Darth Richard He never cut apart the negative. They just said that to make gullible people believe that the laserdisc master was the best source.
I'd love that to be true, do you have any proof of this?
Now, that's just wrong to go against the director's wishes and change the aspect ratio he intended the film to be in: all for the sake of "WIDESCREEN!!!!" (ooo..so much better!).
Are distributors now going to crop every film prior to 1955's the Robe and make sure everything is WIDESCREEN!!!!!
So I have a 32 inch CRT with S-video input as the highest quality input available, and i am in the market for a decent DVD player. I don't need anything fancy but I'd like a decent image quality.
Could anyone help?! I see these cheap-O DVD players for 35 bucks and I was wondering if anyone knew of things I should look for/be aware of.
I was in my first year at college (university), and I didn't have classes on Tuesday so I slept in until around 11, 11:30. I woke up in my girlfriend's room, and walked down to mine to get a change of clothes and I remember hearing my neighbor screaming, "what the fuck is going on, man?". I just shrugged my shoulders and left my dorm. I made it down to the Student Union where I ran into my girlfriend who was telling me that the pentagon was gone, that the world trade center was gone. I thought to myself, "Gone? Uhh..what...how.,,eh?" Typical "does not compute" inner dialogue. We went to a group of people that were watching the news on a big screen television and that's when I saw my first images of the destruction. We held each other's hands while silently watching TV.
The worse thing I remember were all the people jumping to their deaths, and how they'd loop that footage over and over.
I've got about 42% downloaded and I've previewed a few seconds here and there, and I have to say, WOW! This is definitely one of the best looking bootlegs for a film never released on DVD I have ever seen! The sound mix has aged and you can tell, but I'm not picky.
Unfortunately, myspleen didn't recognize my old username and had to create a new one! Have they been cracking down on people or something? I remember having a 1 to 1 seed/leech ratio.
Anyway, great film, can't wait to see the quality!
In a nutshell, this DVD is really barebones. There are two menu screens: the static main menu which has two choices (Play movie / Languages). The languages menu title is misleading because the only option you have to choose from is English subtitles.
So in all there are 2 static menus, one video track, one stereo audio track and one subtitles track. They obviously did not put a lot of resources into this movie and quite frankly, I don't blame them. It's a small cult film, and to have it in anamorphic video on DVD is great and more than what George Lucas will give us.
On the plus side, the video quality is very nice for a budget release. The colors seem natural and the dirt and grain is minimal and non-obtrusive. The Dolby digital soundtrack is probably the same mix from the film's release and I don't have any issues with it. (can I be honest and say that 5.1 surround can be really distracting? I don't know why, but I prefer stereo mixes than surround sound mixes). Another good thing with this DVD is that it is single layer. While the compression might not be of 'superbit' quality - it makes it easier to create backups of this movie on cheap SL-DVD-Rs with no additional compression.
So there you go. If you can remember the days of VHS when all you got was the movie and you were satisfied, this release will please. If you wish for more features, i believe this forum can take care of that.
Honestly, a lot of the pictures of the 1997 version look BETTER than the 2004 editions. You really see how much they crunched the colors and lost all the detail.
How is that better?!
My favorite is picture 28 - when the big ronto passes the land speeder when Luke and company get stopped in Mos Eisley. Wow...what an improvement. A high-rez texture in my face.
Originally posted by: cashiers The last time I caught that Bugs Bunny cartoon where he wanted to raise the bounty on rabbits from $1, it was hacked to pieces.
"Since there's no 'hard copy' like film, there's no way to restore missing computer information. It just vanishes." Richard W. Haines
If only there was some way of copying digital data, a "back-up", if you will, that could be used in the case of a disaster...
DE
All well and good....unless the 'back-up' fails. And the 'back-up' of the 'back-up'......
"It has been estimated that NASA has created more than 1.2 million magnetic tapes since the agency's creation in 1958; many of these contain information of great potential value to astronomers. Yet much of the information gathered has been so poorly labeled and stored that it is all but-or even entirely-inaccessible. The problem are familiar: code books describing how to use the tapes have been lost, tapes have been physically , and the hardware necessary to read older tapes no longer functions."
If this is already happening to tapes from an agency started only 50 years ago... I don't have a lot of faith in digital backups as a long term solution.
Originally posted by: InvaderTim Weird, I didn't think anyone on this board was from Ohio, much less Cincinnati. I didn't even know there was a Star Wars exhibit at COSI. The last time I was there it didn't have any of it's swanky new stuff. It did have this space shuttle thing out in the lobby. My friend and I were in it when it started making a bunch of weird hissing noises, so we started yelling "ALIENS! THEY'RE HERE! HELP US!" We got many stares from passers by - nobody helped. That was back in like '97, so I have really no idea what's up there now, just that they redid the whole place.
They actually moved to the old East High School on the river. it's a prettier building but it doesn't have the same feel as the old one. The coal mine is gone, the caboose is gone, the apollo shuttle you're describing is gone and there's just so much empty space. It's not like the old one where it was packed from wall to wall with crazy stuff.
Oh and jabberdoo, I know springfield. A friend of mine used to go to Wittenberg and my Dad takes a lot of trips to yellow springs.