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#71019
Topic
Info: holy smokes - starwarslegacy.com
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/71019/action/topic#71019
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"Still displays his total lack of knowledge for copyright law. You are not allowed to make personal "back-up" copies. There is no fair use exemption allowing personal back-ups in your precious DMCA. The exemptions are listed, and "fair use" is not among them. Gosh, you'd think Americans would know more about their own laws then the rest of us."

You know what, DanielB, IT DOESN'T MAKE A WHOLE FUCKLOAD OF DIFFERENCE ON THIS SITE ANYWAYS, does it? I know about copyright laws, and it ain't stopping me. You want to get all snippy because he isn't going to give you a copy, go right on ahead, but you'd be the first one licking his ass to get a copy if you thought it would help, so shut up already.

"I believe these will have a small distribution. Why wouldn't they?"

Oh, okay. Daniel wants to poke fun at mverta's knowledge of law, and now you want to completely ignore what his faq says altogether?

Man, looks like I need to start looking for another SW site again. You people are hurting my brain.
Post
#70996
Topic
Info: holy smokes - starwarslegacy.com
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/70996/action/topic#70996
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"Oh they'll get their circulation. I'm not sure if Mark's planning on distributing them himself, or solely relying on others to do it."

Daniel, you've been called on this more than once, by mverta and others. It isn't going to happen. Cut it out.

"If these aren't circulated noone should care."

Is that why you didn't post in this thread? Ooops....

"Nowt wrong with sharing info and tips on any pointers which may help the lads doing their OT versions."

Exactly. Knowledge is power!
Post
#70995
Topic
.: The Zion DVD Project :. (Released)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/70995/action/topic#70995
Time
Well, g-force, I feel I must apologize to you. You are by no means the only person who has done this - you were just the most recent. My rant was not directed solely at you, though you did make for an awfully convenient target.

To be honest, the though crossed my mind: to what extent was this DVD release intended to take the wind from the sails of the bootleg market. It really takes a hard-core OT fan (like myself) to not buy the official DVDs for their overall vastly improved visual and audio <cough>.

My father-in-law bought the set, but then again, he buys all new DVDs. He even bought "Cradle 2 the Grave" and "The Punisher". LOL. At the very least, it gave me a chance to copy the Supplement DVD, so I could use the original crawl as a template.
Post
#70907
Topic
.: The Zion DVD Project :. (Released)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/70907/action/topic#70907
Time
"Interesting though that the official DVDs are perfectly stable.
Anybody know anything about video stabilization"

Other than the obvious fact that they used it for the DVDs, but not the LDs? You do realize that each frame was scanned individually into a computer, right? Didya think they did that for the LD?

Dudes and Dudettes, many LD transfers, and some DVD transfers, share this syndrome. Hell, sometimes it's on the print itself. Lord knows how often the image "shakes" in the theater!. For the life of me, I don't know why people are acting like it's brand new, much less a big deal. If the DVDs have perfect stabilization, then by all means, go watch those. I, for one, won't waste my time placing all 180,000 frames in the exact center to please people who can't understand that problems like these stick out when one is watching the film with their face two fucking feet away on their computer monitor.[/rant]
Post
#70844
Topic
LD Players, What is the machine of choice??
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/70844/action/topic#70844
Time
"Can anyone tell me where to find some info on this LD Player?
Specs and anything else that can be known about it would be great."

Here's the link I gave earlier. You can get manuals from this site. I had to get some for my LD players.

"hey JETRELL ill say this nicely change your avatar, that one is mine i made it, choose something else."

Dude, if it's in the list of choosable icons, then you are out of luck. I don't see any copyright on it, so lighten up.
Post
#70807
Topic
Using the '04 SE DVD version to restore the Original (with lots of info)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/70807/action/topic#70807
Time
"the issue becomes one of garbage in/garbage out. If the signal is somehow "composite" in nature, then that's it, you can't by some method "upsample it." If you can ever separate the data into luminance and chrominance at a source level, then it can't be construed as composite, can it?. The NTSC signal encoded on the disc is comprised of luminance and chrominance values, and if they were truly integrated, then providing an S-Video output would be pointless, since you can't somehow "recapture" the split signals."

You cannot recreate the original luminance and chrominance values, but you can re-establish them to a lesser extent. This is necessary to get back to the final RGB picture anyways, since your display device requires it. This is why using S-video for video capture can be hit and miss - it depends on which device, the tv or LD player, has the better comb filter. People often assume that the S-video on the player is better simply because it's on the player, and ignore the fact that it's often 10-20 years older than the comb filter in their new tv. They don't realize that, in either case, the composite signal is being changed back to S-video, and will eventually be changed back to RGB for displaying.

"Unless the hidden message here is that composite signal-to-composite-output would be akin to "stacking" two composite processes on top of each other, whereas outputting on some component level at least wouldn't make it any worse. (?)"

I'm not sure where you got that. I was just curious to know the means by which you were converting the composite signal. I knew your LD player had component out for DVD-only, so when you stated that the player had been modified, I was wondering if you were using the existing component circuitry (Which I now know you are not.) It just made me wonder why Pioneer didn't decide to engineer that in anyways for LD output. As much as they continued to promote laserdisc, it would have seemed like a no-brainer.

BTW, laserman. Two things...
1) Which model player are you using, and was it modified for RGB output?
2) CONTACT ME!?!?!?

[EDIT] According to that faq (Thanks! I need to renew my WSR subscription as well), there were some players with RGB and component connections. Anyone know which models had this?