SilverWook

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Post: #94000
Topic: The Official babyhum Release Thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/94000/action/topic#94000
Time: 20-Feb-2005 9:22 PM

That Horizon show sounds very similar to an episode of the PBS series NOVA, a 1985 VHS recording of which I've rediscovered in sorting out all my old tapes. Is it possible that it's the same show slightly changed for opposite sides of the pond? The only downside to my recording is that it was broadcast with "open captioning", which means the normally invisible closed captions are "burned in" and can't be removed.

Post: #93705
Topic: Info: Restoration for DVD release of Bambi
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/93705/action/topic#93705
Time: 17-Feb-2005 2:11 AM

Bambi was restored already for the last release in the mid 90's. What else could be done to it, besides scrubbing it into a grainless digital image that looks nothing like it did originally?

After what Disney has done to some of their other classics for DVD, I'm thankful I have the laserdiscs.

Post: #93238
Topic: Do they even exist anymore? (the unaltered theatrical version of the Original Trilogy)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/93238/action/topic#93238
Time: 13-Feb-2005 8:16 PM

Video formats come and go. Ideally, you want to be able to transfer the film to whatever comes down the pike decades from now. And well preserved film reels will be around a lot longer than the HD tapes Episodes II and III were recorded on.

Post: #93128
Topic: Idea: Anakin footage in 16:9 for de-SEing the end of Return Of The Jedi
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/93128/action/topic#93128
Time: 12-Feb-2005 10:18 PM

When did THX WOW! come out on DVD? People are still shelling out sixty bucks for the laserdisc on Ebay.

Post: #93124
Topic: Do they even exist anymore? (the unaltered theatrical version of the Original Trilogy)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/93124/action/topic#93124
Time: 12-Feb-2005 4:05 PM

My understanding is the Library of Congress' print is an original. (No Episode IV.) The American Film Institute is supposed to have a print as well. Whether Empire or Jedi have been archived this way is anyone's guess. It wasn't a case of outright neglect of the film elements (as has happned to other films) it's that the film stock used was pretty lousy and not stable as time passed. It's not just family vacation photos that were screwed over by Kodak getting cheapo back then.

Post: #91225
Topic: Another Q for you audio experts - Stereo vs. Dolby Surround
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/91225/action/topic#91225
Time: 1-Feb-2005 4:05 PM

I had a linear stereo VCR (With Dolby noise reduction) long before I had a hifi deck. The linear tracks on every stereo movie I had from that time were stereo. I'm guessing that a mono vcr or playback through the antenna outputs simply downmixed the sound? (Damned annoying that modern decks don't have linear stereo playback for older tapes.)
Some studios didn't want to pay extra for the use of the Dolby Surround logo, which is why a lot of older video titles simply say "Stereo Surround" even though the movie has a Dolby track.
I was puzzled back in the 80's as to why old four channel quadraphonic amps were flying out of local thirft stores until I learned some early home theater buffs were getting them to decode the surround tracks off of laserdiscs.

Originally posted by: Neil S. Bulk
Mono compatible on VHS tape meant it had a mono linear track in addition to the stereo hi-fi track.

Anytime a matrix Dolby Stereo soundtrack was transferred to a stereo video format, the surround track was carried over, simply because of the way Dolby encoding works. Every stereo signal has an out-of-phase component, which is how Dolby Stereo was encoded.

Neil

Post: #90680
Topic: Help Wanted: an MP3 of the 1.0 mono mix from the pre-ANH projects?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/90680/action/topic#90680
Time: 29-Jan-2005 5:48 PM

Many thanks for making this available to us. It's interesting to hear the obvious dialog differences as well as the more subtle things. I still wonder to this day if the audio recording I once had of the HBO airing of Star Wars in '83 was the true mono mix.
Another source of the original stereo mix is the early '80's Japanese CLV full frame LD. It's not time compressed like the domestic version.

Post: #89775
Topic: The "EditDroid" Trilogy DVD Info and Feedback Thread (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/89775/action/topic#89775
Time: 25-Jan-2005 7:19 PM

Not sure about the remixes, but I'm fairly sure Lapti Nek was on the CD boxset anthology of all three scores released in 1993. (Might even include the english lyrics version heard in Making of a Saga.) I've seen it for sale recently at Borders.

Post: #87831
Topic: Star Wars - The Edits and DVDr releases thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/87831/action/topic#87831
Time: 20-Jan-2005 1:55 PM

I was aware of two Raiders docs and possibly one for Last Crusade being on LD. But was the Temple of Doom one ever released on video? I have a copy taped off PBS in the 80's.

Post: #87766
Topic: Star Wars - The Edits and DVDr releases thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/87766/action/topic#87766
Time: 20-Jan-2005 3:33 AM

Yes, I just noticed that.

It took years, but I got them all on LD now. (Don't mind the subtitles myself.) It's kind of a downer they seem to have been forgotten by Lucasfilm along with the ones made about the Indiana Jones films.

Post: #87732
Topic: Star Wars - The Edits and DVDr releases thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/87732/action/topic#87732
Time: 19-Jan-2005 10:47 PM

It's too bad Classic Creatures and Making of a Saga only came out on LD in Japan. I gnash my teeth at the Japanese remaster of Making of SW and Empire as the old 80's US pressing had such a high defect rate. And the later VHS version that was a mail in premium has replaced William Conrad's narration for some mysterious reason.

Post: #87419
Topic: StarWarsLegacy.com - The Official Thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/87419/action/topic#87419
Time: 19-Jan-2005 12:58 AM

In theory, there should be dozens, if not hundreds of other Fox films from the 50's onward the old logo could be lifted from. Odd they didn't change the name after 1999, thus making an old Saturday Night Live joke from the 70's prophetic.

Post: #87248
Topic: The "EditDroid" Trilogy DVD Info and Feedback Thread (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/87248/action/topic#87248
Time: 18-Jan-2005 8:25 PM

Thank you!

Post: #87239
Topic: The "EditDroid" Trilogy DVD Info and Feedback Thread (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/87239/action/topic#87239
Time: 18-Jan-2005 7:56 PM

Looks pretty good. In some parallel universe, this is the DVD Lucasfilm released.

I'm interested in finding out if it's the real original crawl or an incredible simulation. Could you possibly get a screencap of it past the point the Empire of Dreams documentary cuts away? Thanks.

Post: #85168
Topic: .: The X0 Project Discussion Thread :. (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/85168/action/topic#85168
Time: 10-Jan-2005 2:54 PM

I'm bewildered and dismayed at what's going on. If I wasn't still coming down off the cieling after the tornado alert this morning, (in California!?) I probably could make some sense of things. I really hate Mondays!

Post: #84090
Topic: DVD Packaging
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/84090/action/topic#84090
Time: 7-Jan-2005 1:46 PM

Must be some sort of tradition. My DC laserdisc boxset suffered from cheap glue on the dust jackets, which came apart before I'd finished watching the first film. I could never even stuff the discs back into the box!

Post: #83303
Topic: Idea & Info Wanted: Dreaming of the ultimate LD transfer
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/83303/action/topic#83303
Time: 5-Jan-2005 1:02 AM

Have you tried any rotted discs with it yet?

Post: #83267
Topic: Idea & Info Wanted: Dreaming of the ultimate LD transfer
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/83267/action/topic#83267
Time: 4-Jan-2005 8:34 PM

Heavy is good. After my 704 went south on me, (a cheap tiny little spring fell off the side changing gizmo the laser pickup rides on) I looked around at what could still be bought in DVD's atomic wake. One Pioneer model I almost bought open box was mind bogglingly light! I had lurid visions of it flying off the shelf trying to get an LD up to speed.

It pains me to think Pioneer went cheap ass before they gave up LD for good.

Post: #83188
Topic: Idea & Info Wanted: Dreaming of the ultimate LD transfer
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/83188/action/topic#83188
Time: 4-Jan-2005 2:04 AM

According to http://www.laserdiscarchive.co.uk/laserdisc_archive/pioneer/pioneer_pr-8210/pioneer_pr-8210.htm
I have the PR-8210. I didn't even know until the late 90's it was industrial grade on the inside, or it's use in many an arcade game. Isn't the internet wonderful?

Post: #83158
Topic: Idea & Info Wanted: Dreaming of the ultimate LD transfer
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/83158/action/topic#83158
Time: 3-Jan-2005 9:21 PM

It's a 1984 vintage Pioneer PR-8210. The old gas tube lasers are kind to discs with light rot/speckling, and the only Discovision title I have is actually watchable with it. (But a total mess on a modern machine.) It's also the luckiest player around, having survived the Northridge quake in '94 that trashed my 701. (Pays to be heavy and have big rubber feet!) It's worth it's weight in gold to me, so I'm not going to tempt fate by modding it!

Post: #83137
Topic: Idea & Info Wanted: Dreaming of the ultimate LD transfer
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/83137/action/topic#83137
Time: 3-Jan-2005 4:58 PM

Many old school LD owners believe a single sided machine without CD playback has an edge over the combi players that eventually dominated Pioneer's line. If only my oldest player had digital sound and VNR!

Post: #83135
Topic: .: The X0 Project Discussion Thread :. (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/83135/action/topic#83135
Time: 3-Jan-2005 4:38 PM

Incredible! That is the best I've seen Star Wars on LD look outside of a very expensive home theater demo setup.

Post: #82949
Topic: Idea & Info Wanted: Dreaming of the ultimate LD transfer
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/82949/action/topic#82949
Time: 31-Dec-2004 9:38 PM

Would it be possible to get anything useful out of the mid 80's Japanese CAV widescreen versions? Whatever elements CBS/FOX used were barely ten years old at the time. The only hitch being the letterbox is higher on the screen than later U.S. versions, (On Star Wars anyway) to make more room for the subtitles in the lower black bar.

Post: #82913
Topic: Idea & Info Wanted: Dreaming of the ultimate LD transfer
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/82913/action/topic#82913
Time: 31-Dec-2004 1:24 AM

Thanks for clarifying that. I used to dream of owning an X9, with it's seemingly magical ability to read rotted discs. But I must admit, the X0 is also a beautiful machine!
http://www.laserdiscarchive.co.uk/laserdisc_archive/pioneer/pioneer_hld-xo/pioneer_hld-xo.htm
I only wish Star Wars had been among the MUSE titles released.

Post: #82894
Topic: Idea & Info Wanted: Dreaming of the ultimate LD transfer
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/82894/action/topic#82894
Time: 30-Dec-2004 11:08 PM

I'm not familiar with the X0. Do you refer to the Pioneer HLD-X9 or one of the other MUSE Ld players from Japan?