Moth3r

From what he said in Harmy's thread, he doesn't intend to tweak the 5.1 mix for Star Wars, just to make some fixes to the 2.0 Dolby Stereo mix.

He did say he was planning on revisiting the 5.1 mixes for ESB and RotJ, however.

The colours, and the level of detail (is there some sharpening going on along with the upscale?) you've managed to dig out of the murky GOUT video are really impressive.

It's a shame that there still residual DVNR smearing and aliasing that you can't do anything about. Please do share your script when you're done, because I'd be interested in testing it out on a capture of the PAL laserdisc.

To demonstrate how nice these colours are, I've added downscaled screenshots (1-3 only) to my comparison page here: http://moth3r.heliohost.org/dvd-screens.htm

CatBus said:

I only have one question I'd want answered by a sequel trilogy:

what exactly is the point of adding to a story that's already done?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0291082/

I thought I did - but my RARs only go up to part 17! I guess they are not the original RARs then.

Checked the disc. The interviews are contained in a 5-minute featurette, the disc also contains cast text biographies in the form of still images.

I don't think either of these extras appear on the later 3-disc Special Edition release, the VCI release is now out of print but you should be able to get it easily on eBay UK (the cover looks like this). 

Register on their forums here: http://www.myspleen.org/forums/

In the Questions/Comments section there is a thread titled "Recovering Your Account on the Tracker" which should help.

For those requesting invites, there is also a section on the Spleen Forums for invite requests. You're more likely to get a response over there than in here.

I have the UK Region 2 "VCI" release; it's a "flipper" disc with a 4:3 version one side 1 and a 16:9 version on side 2. I think there are some interviews on side 1, but I don't know if they are the 8 listed above.

I can help - although I can't promise a quick turnaround time. Drop me a PM if interested.

Space Kaijuu said:

I seem to recall something about a script that would do color matching.  Does anyone have a link to it?

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/New-colormatching-script/topic/15002/

(In the Star Wars forum. Wondering whether it should be moved.)

I think it will probably crop the top and bottom by default, but it's possible to edit the script before encoding to correct this.

My enquiry to Pioneer's mail order retail spares company led me to this:
http://www.4ourhouse.co.uk/cgi-bin/product.pl?PID=3745307

I'd be cheaper getting it from Germany!

However, the same site had this:
http://www.4ourhouse.co.uk/cgi-bin/product.pl?PID=3434011

which is considerably cheaper than this:
http://www.4ourhouse.co.uk/cgi-bin/product.pl?PID=3442693

 I think that last one must be pressed to order!

(£1 = 1.16 Euro = 1.49 USD)

I phoned the Pioneer service parts line to enquire about the PAL reference disc. They couldn't find it (but did advise me not to lose the remote for my D925 as a replacement costs £120!)

Very interesting. I wonder if it's a fault with my ES10, or if the Region 2 model is different from the Region 4, or if there's something else different in our processes (did you use the front AV input, for example?)

More images to show the poor horizontal resolution on the DMR-ES10's PAL captures. This is the PAL DVE played through composite:

Notice the 5.75 and 4.43Mhz grids are totally flat (blurred). Here is the same pattern, same player except using the s-video output:

poita, is your ES10 a PAL version? If so do you see the same issue or is it just mine?  

Jay said:

 

The 10th Anniversary depends on what you consider our go-live date.

This teaser went live in June 2002:
http://www.originaltrilogy.com/" target="_blank" title="web.archive.org/web/20020624033636/http://www.originaltrilogy.com/">http://web.archive.org/web/20020624033636/http://www.originaltrilogy.com/

The original petition and forum went live on March 10, 2003:
http://www.originaltrilogy.com/" target="_blank" title="web.archive.org/web/20030329102201/http://www.originaltrilogy.com/">http://web.archive.org/web/20030329102201/http://www.originaltrilogy.com/

My forum join date is a couple weeks prior to that because I installed and tested the old software before the launch.

I'd say the 10th anniversary is tomorrow.

 

Oldest capture of the forum here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20030326013254/http://www.originaltrilogy.com/forum/index.cfm

Some zero-day members (join date 10 March 2003) were PSYCHO_DAYV, Bossk, motti_soL and Luke Skywalker.

There don't seem to be any of the old threads on the new software, I seem to remember there was a loss of data around 2005.

My DMR-ES10 is atrocious at capturing (or passing through) fine detail from a composite input (image). I wonder if that's just an issue with PAL sources? I'll have to try feeding it an NTSC disc.

yoda-sama said:

Just want to announce that, holy crap, I've just bought tickets to see Nathan Fillion (and I suppose Shatner [again], 3 TNG actors, McGyver, a Ghostbuster, and the Species chick) at Dallas Comic Con this May!

We have a separate thread for random thoughts.

Well, Jay's join date is shown as 22nd February 2003, so it's reasonable to assume that was when the forum opened.

xhonzi said:

At this rate, come back in 2012.

My vote is either for  Greedo Shot First

~or~

 DSIII shot first.

Forgot to check back in 2012. Did anything happen?

poita said:

Colour Bars

Is there no PLUGE on these bars?

poita said:

As requested, here are the test patterns from the Pioneer GGV1069 reference disc. Captured with a Pioneer HLD-X9 via an Intensity Extreme.

 

 

That's similar to the Indian Head pattern that appears on A Video Standard. It's useful for checking sharpness, i.e. the vertical black lines under 7 5 3 1 should not have a white halo.

Interesting to see that the part of the multiburst above the centre circle is showing a small amount of residual "reflection" similar to the effect I saw with the Test Card G on the D925.

Yes, I do - and you know I do.

Maybe you should ask if there's anyone here who owns one of these cards and actually has it installed in their box at the moment?

I'm uncomfortable with talk of rips of the new BD in this thread (and it's against forum rules to discuss "warez") so let's just say the Bluray is censored.

Also, it strikes me that there is no definitive list of changes available anywhere. The original story about the "naughty" frames appeared in Variety in 1994, but only mentioned Baby Herman's finger and Jessica Rabbit's lack of underwear (and the Eisner phone number rumour).

I was considering doing something similar to this project by none, comparing the French HDTV version against a censored rip. Not sure how successful it will be, as the images don't line up perfectly, and the French version is softer and has more muted colours.

Is that using the X9's comb filter and the s-video output, or the composite output and the comb filter inside the Intensity Extreme?

Either way, it's a good result - there is no dot crawl between the colours on the colour bars, and no rainbowing on the moiré pattern (apart from at the glitch/linedrop about 3/4 of the way down).

Dear Americans,

Having just watched "Wreck-It Ralph", I was wondering if you have arcades over there that contain a combination of classic games alongside modern machines, like the fictional Litwak's arcade shown in the film?

If so, I'm jealous. All our arcades here in the UK only have dancing, driving or shooting games; you can't seem to find "old-school" joystick games any more.