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Post
#120213
Topic
YIYF's Long Bridge Club
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120213/action/topic#120213
Time
"How could they hack through you sending PMs?"

There could be a security setting that inadvertantly blocks PMs in addition to whatever else it's supposed to do. Unfortunately, if YIYF were to go to the IT person and ask them to let PMs through, it would indicate what he's actually doing at work, so he's kinda in a bad spot here.

YIYF, do PMs and banners work for you at home?
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#120054
Topic
Things you never noticed before in the films
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120054/action/topic#120054
Time
"Tape like splicing tape? If so, where was the last time YOU saw Star Wars!? Perhaps you mean the adhesive residue from the cement splices needed to cement the negatives together. It's really apparent on scope films since there is barely any space left between frames."

The LD transfers are ripe with these splices. I was taking out at least every other scene change. Tedious, tedious, tedious.

"But it's not splicing tape. It's cement."

The point being, it is there, and it can be quite visible.
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#119720
Topic
.: The X0 Project Discussion Thread :. (* unfinished project *)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119720/action/topic#119720
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"If I have a D-VHS with Component outputs, would there be any advantage of recording my LD's to it first and then capturing the D-VHS recorded material to the PDI Deluxe using Component cabling since it has Component Inputs."

No, for a couple of reasons. First of all, just like any type of recording, you want the shortest distance possible between the source and your recorder, as everything in your signal path has the opportunity (and tendency) to "add" to the original signal - and by "add", I mean signal noise.

Secondly, even if the component connections offered a pristine, non-noise-added signal transfer, the original capture still can only be made with the LD player's best output - which would be the composite video anyways.

Best case, you would simply get the same composite video from the D-VHS that you would have gotten from the LD player in the first place - making it redundant and unnecessary.

Worst (and most likely) case, you would get the composite video as well as some "added colorization" that would be inherent in the video processing of the D-VHS player (and this is a quality of all audio/video components - nothing has a "pure" signal path.)
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#119704
Topic
Things you never noticed before in the films
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119704/action/topic#119704
Time
"ANH: Luke's parents - holy crap I just noticed this for the first time after seeing the film so many times, when Luke gets back to his home after the empire have destroyed it, you see two smoking skeletons outside on the ground!"

While it is rather difficult to make out what the smoking mass is, I'm still kinda surprised you didn't pick up on this until now (assuming you've seen the films for several years.)
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#119679
Topic
.: The X0 Project Discussion Thread :. (* unfinished project *)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119679/action/topic#119679
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Well, SW would still be 2.35:1 regardless. What makes the real difference is the resolution of the source material. If it's a low-resolution source (i.e. VHS), then you are better off watching it on a 4x3 TV. A high-resolution source like DVD would look great on a 16x9 screen. LD is closer to DVD, but the SW discs aren't without their flaws, and blowing up the image makes them even more pronounced. After having removed the dots and speckles from the first third of ANH (frame by frame), I almost can't watch the bootlegs anymore without these defects jumping out at me.

Maybe I'll make a Wookie-groomer type video, so you can see all the blemishes, as well as the tremendous improvement that can be achieved with the right software.
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#119663
Topic
.: The X0 Project Discussion Thread :. (* unfinished project *)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119663/action/topic#119663
Time
"I have an X9 laserdisc player and the Faces laserdiscs"

If you live anywhere near Southern California, then send me a PM, because you may become my new best friend.

"I'm trying to say the image being letterboxed has nothing to do with 16:9, 4:3 or anamoprhic."

But it has a great deal to do with the *quality* of the the image.

Commercial anamorphic DVDs are made from the original telecine, which has a greater resolution than the subsequent DVD. The LDs that these bootlegs are made from have far less resolution than the telecine, and less resolution than what the DVDs are capable of as well - and the letterbox LDs have even less resolution than the pan-&-scan LDs.

"Well I think anamorphic is ALWAYS better since it can also be viewed normally on a 4:3 tv"

Again, your statement does not take the source material into account. The LDs already have less resolution than the DVDs. Now, if we blow this transfer up to anamorphic status, and then play it on 4x3 mode, you are now removing *even more* resolution to get it to fit on your screen. Point being, on a 4x3 tv, a non-anamorphic bootleg transfer of Star Wars will have more resolution than an anamorphic bootleg transfer of Star Wars. If you have a 4x3 television, then you should watch a non-anamorphic transfer. If you have a widescreen TV, then anamorphic will look fine.

Now, this does not take into account any upsampling of the transfer image when making it anamorphic, but then again, there's still some debate about the best way to do this, so it's not quite the magic bullet that everyone makes it out to be.
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#119366
Topic
***The MeBeJedi feedback thread ***
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/119366/action/topic#119366
Time
"I thought how the amp decodes the incoming stereo signal (DD 2.0, PCM, analogue) depends on the amp itself, my Yamaha A/V receiver can take a 2.0 signal (analogue or digital) and output it through Pro-Logic, Pro-Logic II or any number of the DSP effects."

You are correct, and as I said, my AMP *doesn't* have Pro-Logic II steering. It *does* have AC3 decoding.

"I've always felt uncomfortable about creating a "fake" 5.1 mix from a matrixed 2-channel source"

But it's simply the Pro-Logic II equivalent, stored in 5.1.