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Knightmessenger said:

What exactly is different. I watched the clips and they looked very similar. At least the Indiana Jones movies made it onto anamorphic dvd without any serious alterations.

Sojourn said:



I guess that explains why it sounds so much like Mark Hamill after all. :)

Thanks!

bkev said:

I happen to like Truce at Bakura and Splinter of the Mind's Eye.

Johnboy3434 said:

I've had very bad luck with crap discs recently (all my burns have been jerky and with all sorts of artifacting that wasn't in the original file), so I ordered a 50-pack of Verbatim DVD-R's. It only cost $25, but I don't want 50 coasters sitting around my house. Was this a good purchase?

Molly said:

The Star Wars movies ain't the only ones Lowry's screwed up the colors on.

Moth3r said:

Stolen from lddb.com:

Never heard of this film before, so I did a bit of digging. Although the DVD is P&S, apparently there was a Japanese laserdisc that was widescreen (AR letterboxed 1.75:1). Unfortunately it contains subtitles in the picture.

However, next Tuesday 27th May at 2:35am, it will be shown on Sky Movies Sci-fi/Horror. Maybe someone who subscribes to Sky Movies (I don't) will be able to capture a nice anamorphic version for you (admittedly with PAL speedup, but that's easily dealt with...)

Fang Zei said:

OK, maybe there's an obvious answer to this question that I'm just not seeing, but here goes:

Since George obviously didn't intend the GOUT to be watched on widescreen displays (what with the subtitles getting cut off and all), why did he bother progressively encoding the video? I thought only widescreen sets were capable of displaying progressive material.

Fang Zei said:

Guess this is what we have imdb for.

Speaking of which, does anyone else have an account over there, or shall I do the honors of updating the "alternate versions" section?

Ziz said:

The only LD player I've ever owned is the one I still have, Pioneer CLD-3070.

Is there a site or page somewhere that compares the players?

boba feta said:

I think people pick on that movie because of it's swiss cheese plot.

see you auntie said:


Has this already been posted? I think its very appropriate to this topic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPzDjaA03ts

Orinoco_Womble said:

Feck, that's a good site! Can't think how I missed that one. Thanks for that URL Moth3r.

FYI, I also found this atricle from Bob Nillan on the subject of curing LD warpage from around 1992ish:
http://www.access-one.com/rjn/laser/legacy/ld13.txt

This all seems pretty good advice, and it all seems to boil down to: heat the discs a bit and press the buggers flat again by sandwhiching them between a couple of sheets of glass and stack something heavy on top.

starwarsfan8376 said:



Sorry to hear about your problems with Epson. I've had an R200 for a few years now with no complaints, other than ink is insanely expensive (like any inkjet though).

zombie84 said:

Digital technology hadn't yet advanced far enough, the 1997 SE was mostly an old-fashioned photo-chemical restoration. The entire film wasn't digitized because there was no such thing as DI's back then, they just recomposited whatever shots they need, printed them back onto film and then spliced them into the neg so that it could be completed photochemically.

As for EOD, most of thats just laserdisk footage anamorphically enhanced. It was done out of house by some company, and the entire feature is anamorphic so that means they were forced to re-render the letterbox footage as anamorphic in order to include it in the feature, otherwise it would look ridiculous to have this tiny box in the center of the screen whenever they showed clips.