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#467582
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.: LeeThorogood's PAL LaserDisc Preservation Project :. - '97 SE Finished '95 THX Finished - '97 SE Uploaded '95 THX Uploaded to the newsgroup
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LeeThorogood said:

Another one of my 'quick updates'. The DVD Audio for ROTJ has been encoded, I dont have a surround set-up so I can't check the Dolby Surround/ProLogic encoding is working, just have to cross my fingers that it is! The DVD Video is also encoded now, although I didn't have a chance to look at it before I left for work this morning, so I will post another update when I know if its a good encode or not. :)

Assuming there is nothing wrong with the video, all I have left to do is to go through and configure the chapter menus, then I can author up the DVD and ROTJ will be done! Although this wont be the Coffret set finished as I still need to re-render the video for SW and ESB with the video calibration settings applied. These will then need re-encoding to MPEG2 and re-authoring.

So all in all I should have the whole Coffret set done in about a week or so.

 I cant wait to see the final result, thanks Lee.

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#466792
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NFL
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Warbler said:

I got curious as to what the trophy was that was awarded to NFL champion before they merged with the AFL and had the Superbowl.   The first NFL championship trophy was called the Brunswick-Balke Collender Cup, it was awarded to the 1920 Akron Pros.   It was lost and no knows what happened to it.    It seems they next created a trophy in 1934 called the Ed Thorp Memorial Trophy.   It was handed from champion to champion, much like the Stanley Cup,  until 1969.  In 1969 it was given to the Minnesota Vikings(they were NFL champions that year, but lost the Superbowl).  

Here is a picture of a replica of the Ed Thorp Memorial Trophy:

 

That was the last year before the merger.   The Vikings apparently lost the trophy.  Minnesotatians, WHERE IS THE ED THORP MEMORIAL TROPHY!? 

 

btw,  I was unable to find out what the the AFL championship trophy was called but here is a picture of the two that the Buffalo Bills won:

I think it would be neat if the NFL awarded these trophies to the NFC and AFC champions. 

 

 

 

 Those trophys look so much better than the new "arty" design.