Fixed.
A while ago I was creating a job vacancy on our online recruitment system at work. Pasting the job description from Word, generated this response:
We need this here!
A B C said:
(... I see you can't ignore yourself !)
It is actually possible to ignore yourself if you play around with urls. Although why you would want to is different matter...
The original RARs were not password protected - it sounds like someone has repacked it. I suggest you direct this question to your download source.
Darth Mallwalker said:
Moth3r, please move me to Preservation forum
Done.
I would say leave everything interlaced.
As for the main movie, you should NEVER deinterlace film-based material. You might want to try to IVTC it.
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/How-to-make-a-Star-Wars-DVD-with-the-restored-mono-mix-PCM/topic/8288/
(See step 5)
No; there was only ever a SL version of MIAMI_RTJPAL.
Hi all, back from a short break in Skegness. Anything interesting happen while I was away?
'twas a good one. Thought it would be someone's sig by now.
The only difference between v1 and v2 is the colour of the Greedo/Jabba subs, the position of the layer breaks, and the "magic tree" fix in ESB.
v3, however, sounds like it's going to be a significant update.
tehparadox or alt.binaries.starwars
I'm smug in the knowledge that I've probably given GL less money than any of you.
Through the eighties, I had SW, ESB and ROTJ on VHS recorded off the TV.
In 1995, I bought the widescreen THX VHS set new.
I also own TPM Region 2 DVD, bought new, and AOTC which was given to me as a present.
My laserdiscs are all off ebay; the French PAL LDs (SW x 2, ESB & ROTJ) and the US "special widescreen edition" of SW.
I bought the 2006 PAL GOUT DVDs, but shopped around on the internet to get the lowest possible price. My copies, from CD WOW I think, have the Australian covers!
Another member of the forum actually gave me the Region 1 NTSC GOUT SW as he had a spare! And I illegally downloaded DVD5 versions of the NTSC ESB and ROTJ, so bite me.
dark_jedi's GOUT-sourced Custom DVD
Either wait for v3, or look for the previous version that has already been completed.
msycamore said:
... the problem with the '86 JSC/'92 US LD are the huge differences in colors to the '93/'95 masters ...
Did you see this thread:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Methods-for-colour-matching-colour-grading/topic/9430/
msycamore said:
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This is very interesting, never thought the difference in smearing was that huge between the Pal and NTSC versions, this can be a better alternative than using JSC LD/US '92LD footage as the colortiming is basically the same as in GOUT.
The difference in smearing is not that huge. The 4-eyed stormtrooper may be better, but other scenes are just as bad as the NTSC version. I'll dig out my DVD.
Interestingly, the colour timing of the PAL master for ANH is slightly different to the NTSC master. Tatooine's sand is more red and less yellow, and the sky is more grey than blue. In these scenes, the colours are actually closer to the 2004 DVD.
Harmy said:
[...] But just looking at the pics I posted above, I'm quite sure a raw transfer of the 1995 PAL LD could beat the GOUT.
For fine (horizontal) detail, the GOUT DVD would win every time. However, the PAL LDs win if you consider they have less aliasing, less gate weave and no blurring of vertical detail.
Harmy said:
... it would have to be a really really good transfer of the PAL LD to beat GOUT ...
I now have another player to test, and a few other ideas for improvement. I've learned a fair bit in the last 5 years... just wish I had more time to play with this stuff.
I think it should be 16:9.
Although I don't think it's a major problem - the aspect ratio set in the IFO probably takes preference over that set in the MPEG-2 stream, and if you have a 16:9 TV chances are it will be displayed correctly whatever the AR is set to.
The problem is that on some laserdisc releases, they put a "fade to black" at the end side 1, then had a "fade in" at the start of side 2. You can't just cut at the start of the fade because you lose the end of the scene.
The French OT LDs did not have this - they just ended in a freeze frame - but I did have to deal with a fade on the Japanese Evil Dead disc. In that case it didn't pose too much of a problem.
Bingowings said:
The guide at the bottom of here might help picking a model out, though there is no guarantee that they will be in your price bracket in your region.
That is a pretty useful guide. I think however that the "top" players like the CLD-97 and 99 still fetch a high price on ebay.
You might want to look for the CLD-1010, a player that supposedly has a good picture but can be picked up fairly cheaply.
Laserman said:
... pick up a Pioneer LD-V8000 the most under rated lasedisc player ever, it gives a better picture than the Pioneer S9 and can be regularly found on ebay or at dealers for less than 50 bucks. Very very clean signal path and a great image, better than any of the 704, 703, CLD-97, 99, S9 etc. that all suffer from smearing.
PAL-land did not get a 1993 "definitive collection" THX release in any format.
We did however get the 1995 "faces"/"one last time" THX release on LD (France, Germany and Spain only) and VHS. In the US, they used the 1993 master, however a new master was made for the PAL releases. This master has occasionally different framing, less dirt in some shots and the famous burn marks in the Tantive corridor. It still has some DVNR - see the cantina scenes in ANH and the Hoth battle scenes in TESB - but it was probably not applied as aggressively as on the NTSC releases.
The PAL GOUT DVDs were upscaled from the NTSC masters because we got screwed over.
Is your VHS PAL?
Explanation received by PM and accepted.
So "Pris", please explain to me why you and focuspuller have both posted from the same IP address?