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#70600
Topic
***The MeBeJedi DVDs *** UPDATE! (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/70600/action/topic#70600
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Not a software update, but a hardware update.

Dell 1025TM 17-inch flat-screen monitor ***Update***
Logitech Z-640 5.1 speakers (I forgot to mention this last time.) ***Update***

My friend just donated his 17-inch flatscreen monitor to me, and it looks sooooooo nice. This is the first "new" monitor I've gotten in 12 years that is an improvement over my Viewsonic (bigger, newer, better visuals). Now I can use the Viewsonic as my secondary/backup monitor. This will make my frame-by-frame work so much easier, it's not even funny.

(Too bad he didn't donate his NVidia videocard with two video outputs as well - I still have to find a decent PCI videocard to run the Viewsonic simultaneously, and it would have saved me a slot. )

Also, I put up a bad e-mail address. Here's the fix. originaltrilogy@yahoo.com Messages about copies will be ignored. Just be patient, please.
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#70457
Topic
.: The Zion DVD Project :. (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/70457/action/topic#70457
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"If your audio recording levels aren't too loud to begin with, normalizing the .wav file will make the track as loud as possible without introducing any breakup."

Gotcha. I actually know what normalizing is, I just didn't know why you were asking if the LD soundtrack was already normalized.

"I'm thinking right now that I'll normalize my PCM track to the same reference level as the DD track (-31dbFS)."

I chose to keep the digital PCM unmodified, and raised the volume of the DD track instead.

"There is no digital audio out on my LD player, however I have been told that it is output digitally through one of the analog audio jacks. I haven't experimented with this yet, so I don't know for sure. I hope to capture it digitally if at all possible though."

I'm afraid that isn't the case. PM me and perhaps I can send you my digital capture for your DVD.
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#70421
Topic
Using the '04 SE DVD version to restore the Original (with lots of info)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/70421/action/topic#70421
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"Your assertion that LD is a composite format is incorrect. Laserdisc is a storage medium, not a format."

Sorry, I mispoke. I was referring to the video signal itself, and didn't mean to "assert" anything.

"The same video signal decoded 3 different ways will wield 3 different results, in this case, superior sharpness and chrominance when delivered via component outputs."

Let me restate my question, then. Using S-video from LD players usually doesn't give better results than that from the composite output, generally because the S-video comb filter in current display devices outperforms the older comb filters in the LD players. I'm curious to know how the component-mod in your player compares to the eventual component signal that would eventually be derived from the composite connection. Does it somehow utilize the component-video circuitry already in the 91, or is it a separate device altogether?
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#70410
Topic
Using the '04 SE DVD version to restore the Original (with lots of info)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/70410/action/topic#70410
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I find it kinda funny that someone in here is in agreement that the colors are off on the DVD, after taking me to task for saying the very same thing in another thread.

Anyways, I was curious about the modified component video out being used on your laserdisc player. Since LD is a composite format, and a lot of the video information has been irretrievably lost when converted to this format (luminance, etc.), I'm wondering what kind of difference your connection makes compared to the composite and/or S-video connections. I'm sure it's better, but do you have any screenshots for comparison?

I ask because I know laserman has an LD player with RGB output, and he's seen a tremendous difference (though again, there are no screenshots.)
Post
#69757
Topic
.: The Zion DVD Project :. (Released)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/69757/action/topic#69757
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"Not so sure PCM is considered to be mandatory. I used to get a lot of PCM encoded DVDs from a guy I met on eBay and they wouldn't work in my older players."

But these are not "factory" DVDs that you are talking about. I am referring to actual DVDs from the studios, versus bootlegs of dubious quality. Commercial DVDs must have either a DD or PCM soundtrack, and then any other soundtrack may be added (Such as DTS).

"Then it is a spot which came from the master and will be on all three captures, thus ending up on the output video. In this case, like noise, it will go through filters that will remove most of it, if not remove it completely. Spots like that are much less noticable during playback than big rainbowy laser rot spots."

Okay. I was just curious.
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#69725
Topic
.: The Zion DVD Project :. (Released)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/69725/action/topic#69725
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"Some DVD Players are not even compatible with PCM Audio... I got burned on that a while back doing a 60th Anniversary DVD for my Grandparents only to find out their DVD Player wasn't compatible"
Say what?!? PCM is mandatory for DVD players, since DVDs are required to have either a PCM or DD soundtrack. Are you sure your PCM file was good? Did you try playing the PCM file on a different disc?
"So, for instance if I make three captures from three different ANH LD's and on one frame one has a rot spot and the other two don't, the output video will be without that spot. Using this method, I should be able to produce a transfer that is rid of all rot spots."

What if the "spot" is from the laserdisc material itself?