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#205683
Topic
~French Coffret Trilogie LD to DVD transfer~ (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/205683/action/topic#205683
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Originally posted by: Rebelscum
Anyone had a chance yet to sit down and watch Arnie's efforts and compare with the others?


At last I did find some free time to sit down and watch arne's ANH (arne, you have not sent me ESB yet. I'm just telling you because you wrote you did, and maybe you didn't by mistake).
Anyway, I don't like to compare any preservation effort with another one, that is a rule I never broke in this forum.
But I can concur to what arne has previously said about his transfer.
Most apparent thing you notice when you view the film is the absense of noise reduction.
Suprisingly, I actually liked it, it feels more "theatrical", like ffdshow's "movie effect" or something.
Image is indeed soft, but I think that the overall impression with the presence of the noise is that there is no detail loss.
Image is bright enough IMHO.
Anyway I'm not an expert in this stuff, this is only an effort to discribe the feeling I got by watching it.
As I'm not familiar with many techical terms used in this forum, I hope my description managed to make some sense.

I will be uploading this transfer @ myspleen this friday, so whoever is intrested, stay alert.
If I get ESB, I will upload it as well very soon.
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#194319
Topic
Idea: Holiday Special on Blu-ray?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/194319/action/topic#194319
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Originally posted by: ReverendBeastly
Originally posted by: Metallaxis
To those who will rush to tell me that it was never on film but is was just aired, so all we have is TV grabs:
Every moving picture before digital camera technology had to be filmed somewhere.

That makes no sense whatsoever. It's very obviously shot on video.


you're right, my bad. But I wanted so badly to support the uncompressed high def idea... pity...
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#194318
Topic
Idea: Holiday Special on Blu-ray?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/194318/action/topic#194318
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I had something else to add:
to movie_rebel_82, who brought this thread up after 6 months:

Things are not as simple as garbage in = garbage out.

An old analog tape may have poor quality, but if this is all we have we try to preserve it the best we can.
Digitalizing it and compressing it to fit a DVD with a lossive algorithm such as mpeg2 further adds artifacts and reduces even more the quality.
The fact that a source has poor quality does not mean that a transfer that can perform better picture qualities given better sources will fully preserve the quality of a poor source.
so in conclusion, your equation should be:

garbage in --- lossive algorithm---> garbage with more artifacts out
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#194314
Topic
Idea: Holiday Special on Blu-ray?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/194314/action/topic#194314
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I for one would like to see the HS transfered in Holographic DVD.
For those who don't know what that is, it's a disc in experimental phase that can hold 1.4 terabytes.
If my math is correct, this disc has the apropriate capacity to hold the HS in uncompressed high def (if anyone finds a film and scans it)

To those who will rush to tell me that it was never on film but is was just aired, so all we have is TV grabs:
Every moving picture before digital camera technology had to be filmed somewhere.

So my guess is:
We have to find that film, scan it, sponsor the holographic DVD experiments, and when the technology is ready, store the HS in that format.
And all that to preserve this masterpiece called the Holiday special, which I never managed to watch for over 5 minutes.
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#192650
Topic
STAR WARS: The Torrents thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/192650/action/topic#192650
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Offer:
When ocpmovie sent me ROTJ CE, he enclosed a SL and a DL disk.
However, the DL disk I got was totaly unreadable in one part (VTS_01_3.VOB)
So I asked him if he could send me another disc containing the file I was missing.

OCP was kind enough to send me 2 fully functional DL disks intead of a SL disk with the file I was missing.
The first one (RiDATA) plays perfectly.
The other (Verbadim) plays on both my DVD players (Pioneer, and a no-name one),
and is completely readable using my Samsung DVD-rom, but my NEC DVD R/RW drive cannot read it.
Having a spare DL disk, I thought I'd send it for free to whoever wants it.
So, In conclusion: I will send this Verbadim DL ROTJ CE disk to the first to ask it and give me his address.
Please send me your address over pm, but leave a post here to, so that others may know that the offer has closed.
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#191978
Topic
STAR WARS: The Torrents thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/191978/action/topic#191978
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First thing I found out doing a background check on my DVDs is that I did not actually get ESB CE from ocpmovie.
I had ocpmovie send me ANH and ROTJ and forgot that the one who sent me ESB CE was Rikter.
So if you want to track the origin of the disc, you have to ask Rikter about it.
Nevertheless, the dates on the disc are still preserved (the dates are the ones when the files were created,
not the ones when the disk was written, and proof of that is the fact that the dates are prior to the date I sent Rik an e-mail asking him for the disc.
Anyway, here's the date on my DVD files: 2005 - Dec - 14 1:23am local time
(can't do the math about GMT time cause I don't know the time zone where the creator of these files lives.
If Rik or a prior link used a riping software to get the files, then the date is not the correct one.
If every link just did a copy-paste or a disc-copy, then this is the creation date, and knowing that ocp lives in GMT-8, the corret date is 2005-12-14 9:23am GMT).
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#191646
Topic
STAR WARS: The Torrents thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/191646/action/topic#191646
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Originally posted by: Darth Mallwalker
Originally posted by: arcadayn
I just finished downloading OCPmovies ESB. When I tried to burn this to dvd I got a "dvd video file realloctaion failed" message. I burned the dvd anyway and it plays on my PC, but not on my dvd player (Panasonic DMR ES20). Are there any fixes for this?
I've noticed that
Video Manager Menu Cell Address Table (VMGM_C_ADT) and
Video Manager Menu VOBU Address Map (VMGM_VOBU_ADMAP)
are missing from the .IFO files seeded by Metallaxis.

I'm wondering if he might have used some application software to "rip" the files
rather than simply copying them with native OS commands.

The .IFOs posted by segaflip are different, and do contain VMGM_C_ADT and VMGM_VOBU_ADMAP.

arcadayn, here's something you might like to try:
Keep the .VOB files from Metallaxis (they're identical to segaflip's)
while replacing the .IFO & .BUP files with the ones segaflip posted.

Where to get them ?
Click the blue eyeglasses icon beside this post to see my profile....


Just for your information: I just copy-pasted the contents of the discs.
What you get is an exact copy of the files that ocp sent to me in DVD's.
My DVD's work perfectly and so should the a disc burned with the exact content.
If nero gives you trouble under "DVD video" mode, you can always burn the disc as a data disc, it will still work just fine....
Anyway, thanks to Darth Mallwalker for giving another option to people having trouble with these releases...
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#167134
Topic
Info & Offer: Dear Santa...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/167134/action/topic#167134
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It's been 3 weeks since I sent the discs out, and still, there are 12 people that have not informed me that the got their present!
That's really odd, if indeed they have not received the discs.
Please people, if you have received your discs, drop me a pm to let me know (that is in case you haven't sent me one already).
To be more specific, I am refering to those people:
Max_Rebo, agr1170, Rebelscum, gltaylor74, catofong, svenge, Jerclay, Trooperman, RickWJ324, Erikstormtrooper, ReverendBeastly and nflchampion.
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#166789
Topic
Classic Edition: Return of the Jedi by Ocpmovie (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/166789/action/topic#166789
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Originally posted by: DarthBoMan
Hehehe - thanks Pelle. Thanks for your help with the subtitles too ... guess we'll figure that out ....


About the subtitles, I have no idea what you are talking about... but maybe there is another Pelle around here?


He was actually refering to me, and my name isn't Pele, it's Petros, but both begin by "Pe", hence the confusion I suppose.

As for the torrent stuff, as I promised you ocp, Special Edition Hype and Ewok will be there very soon, and hopefully ROTJ CE too, when I get it from you.
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#166621
Topic
Classic Edition: Return of the Jedi by Ocpmovie (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/166621/action/topic#166621
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Originally posted by: Invader Jenny
Hmm...if there is any chance that a DL disk will screw up I better not get that. My cheap player probably couldn't play it anyway. Switching the disks shouldn't be that big of a deal for me. I can get my lazy ass out of my chair and change the disk. Hell, that's the way I grew up with the LaserDiscs, and then I had to switch them twice!


Quick info before you make a wrong decision:
If you decide to get the DL disc as two SL discs, then changing discs in your player won't work. For the movie to play, all the files must be on the same disc, so you either make yourself a DL disc using the files from the 2 SL discs you get, or ask someone to send you an already made DL disc, or simply get the SL version of the movie.
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#166529
Topic
Classic Edition: Return of the Jedi by Ocpmovie (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/166529/action/topic#166529
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Just one thought here guys: DL discs, apart from their expence, have other disadvantages too.
The most important is compatibility:
I have tried at least 10 times to burn DL discs, using 4 different brands. Outcome:
the DL discs are only readable using the burner that wrote it. That aplies for all brands. All other pc drives refuse to read them. They play fine in my Pioneer DVD player, but on two other deck players I tried, only the first layer was playable, afterwards the player froze.
In two cases (different brands), the layers got seperated when I accidentaly hit them (that will hapen in post office, trust me) and then they were unplayable.

If you try to burn your own DL dvd, you don't have to worry about layer break, Nero, alcohol, DVDdecrypter and Elby clone DVD put it automatically if you choose not to specify it manually.
But even if (for a reason I can't understand) the layer break is placed in wrong position, the only disadvantage will be a 1 second still image at the half of the movie, ie no big deal.

there is no technical knowledge required to burn a DL disc. You just copy-paste the files contained in the two discs in one folder, and then burn them contained in a folder named VIDEO_TS.
That's all.

So, my point is: Leave the guy alone here, and settle with the two SL discs to avoid more trouble afterwards (I'd hate to have him send me a DL disc -which after all takes ages to be written in comparisson to 2 SL discs- and then ask him to re-send me the discs cause the one I got was not compatible).
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#166240
Topic
.: Moth3r's PAL DVD project :.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/166240/action/topic#166240
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Originally posted by: Moth3r
Metallaxis is (hopefully) now doing the DVD cover based on the scan provided by Russ.

I've now emailed the disc label scan to boba feta.


Indeed, I am currently working on it.
Please give me some time, as I'm doing this while on holidays in a remote mountain village.
It's not easy for me to do this on my Laptop pc, but I'm giving it my best...
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#165432
Topic
A More Elegant Weapon, a More Civilized Age
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/165432/action/topic#165432
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For someone who saw the DVD's extras, the reason Lucas gives for this Light saber spining is that these two heroes have been forged though the same wars, the same circumstances and their technique is similar as twins look like each other. So the pointless spining is the outcome of someone kinda-facing himself.
This resembles of someone trying to play chess against himself: If you try to play a mind game playing for both sides, the game will always be silly and stupid to the other spectators, and the one who wins is the one you intentially choose to give advantage to.
I must say that even if I found this scene stupid at first, this explanation convinced me, and I came to like the whole duel now that I watch it from this angle.