Stamper

Like The Abyss it's a doctored soundtrack. We prefer legitimate preservations.

Glad you found it cos uploading 22gb of content takes hours :)

I'm in. Got the 22gb interlaced D-Theater (there's a 14gb reencoded version progressive removing the black bars). Any sync of the original DTS LD sound will be awesome.

The 3D BD as to be cropped on the sides because of the 3D effects. However one can extract the main eyeview (it's probably about 30gb in size) and watch it in 2D without hassle.

Syncing the original sound would be great. Also, is there online links to the LDS rip? It looks so awesome :)

Anyone planning on syncing this to the new Blu-ray?

I encoded this one from my DVD to h264 mkv cropping up and down so that it fits the screen. It's true it looks better than the craps DVDs and Blu-rays.

You can't reconstruct it, some of the shots of the TC are exclusive to it. You would have to upscale them.

PM me and I'll give you an invite.

What would be great is a restoration of the 1.96:1 LD rip of the theatrical cut and mix (original LD release before the SE)

Muxed Russian video with the old DVD track. All good. All you need to do is match one cut on both version, and adjust. 

Can't wait for this. I don't like the color timing of the current Blu-ray.

Yes, there's an HDTV open matte full HD master airing on channels. I don't get why it hasn't appeared online yet. But then, the True Lies open matter HD master is not online either, even thought it airs from time to time. (I own one recording of that one).

The new HD master is like 4 years old. Van Ling reported it on many forums.

And no one is awaiting an open matte Blu-ray.

French HD looks like an upscale. The Japanese 1080i was stretched and out of sync, someone on PB in the reactions gave the right info to sync the track back and get the correct stretching.

They are both old news thought, we need to find a 720p of the 16/9 broadcasts in 1.78:1 open matte.

Nope, Pal french disc is uncut. I DL the russian hdtv, what is the best format to reencode 1080i to progressive, 720p or 1080p? I assume 720p as 1080i to 1080p would just add extra size.

The russian hdtv is not the correct format (some minor cropping on the sides) and has a green haze.

The Pal DVD is better and is the best representation of the original colors. I think I can remux it at 24fps using mkvtoolnix and get the soundtrack also back to correct pitch and speed with eac3to, it will display at 1024x576.

It not 720p, but pretty near. In fact, this can be done with most Pal DVDs. The vobs actually have the correct frames, they are just flagged to be read at 25fps. Using tools, you can without reencoding them, have them in a mkv at 23.976. From then it's just a matter of applying the correct audio track and subs.

Excellent, looking forward to it.

Is the US widescreen LD stereo, or DS? If it is, that is another of those lost mixes. The DVD and Blu 5.1 misses some music elements in some parts like when Scorpio is on the roof over the church in the park.

Hi guys,

I can’t seem to find one Dirty Harry DVD with the original english mono mix. Some mono mixes are included but of the foreign tracks only.

Anyone knows if there could be a LD audio rip out there? Cause I’m pretty sure this was the original mix on Laserdisc.

In fact this goes for all the films. They all seem to have been remixed in 5.1 with the original english mixes now gone.

You can find the stendec synced file on myspleen. 

Were you trying to reencode pal to ntsc? Cos I found out that regarding the picture, pal dvds do have all the footage intact in the vobs, it's just that there's a command to play them at 25fps.

If you demux, and make a mkv that plays the footage at 23,976 fps, it wlll play flawlessly. You just need to remux the ntsc audio (with the correct speed), or transcode the pal audio back to 23,976, to have mini-hd files of your fave movies that plays on any HD TV.

I concur re Die Hard, I remember as I saw the movie twice on opening week, that when the building explodes when McLane drops the chair in the elevator, the rumble was DEEP, and that was in a THX theater.

I never did find the same feeling on either LD or DVD or BR, thought LD mixes were close.

Would fancy a restoration of this original theatrical mix ;)

You don't need to because Stendec is perfectly sinced to it, or you can use the old dark jedi file and mux it with -9000 millisecs at the beginning.

We're only talking the curious discovery that the 2001 DVD mono track don't stay in sync, whereas Dark Jedi does.

I asked Stendec and he says he only adjusted the DJ file at the beginning. No further alignment was made and it all synced.

So here's the mystery: the old mono version on the 2001 DVD, that is absent from the 2006 Blu-ray and from the 2012 remaster, but should be in sync with both of those as DJ file was originally fixed to be in sync with the 2006 Blu-ray, DOESN'T SYNC.

Something is off with this track, and it might explain why it's absent from both the 2006 and 2012 Blu-rays.

I checked my mux. You're correct it goes in and out of sync by 100/200ms after a while.

Dark Jedi or Stendec files however sync perfectly. if there's a difference by the end, it's probably of tenth of milliseconds, hardly noticeable.

That's crazy because Dark Jedi rip was synced to the old Blu-ray, which used the same master as the old 2001 DVD which had the mono track.

You know what, it might explains WHY the mono track from the DVD is not included on the new master, and also why it isn't on the old Blu-ray.

It might be it's kinda botched by time breaks that they couldn't fix based on the files they had.

There's no reason it shouldn't sync, except if seamless branching has something to do with it, (as the DVD have tons of hidden features and branching and stuff), and I recall when I imported the movie in mpegstreamclip, it found like a hundred time breaks). Maybe the mono track have "time breaks" that you and I and they couldn't fix with mpeg streamclip that render it difficult to sync to the HD raw files of the old version and the new one.

They probablly thought that resyncing it to the Blu was too much work.

Of course, they could have asked Dark Jedi for a synced mono file for free...

Does the DVD mono audio goes out of sync after 16mn? I didn't check, since Dark Jedi file is so much better. Like Stendec, I just erased the MGM Lion roars and synced by -9000, it appears to be in sync as Dark Jedi original file was already synced out to the then current Blu-ray.

I will check about the DVD mono audio, but I don't see why it would desync as both the DVD from 2001 and the recent remaster appears to be the full movie without any frame missing.

Some hints for those who want to remux the mono track to their own rip of the new Blu-ray:

- First use the 0000 track, the one without the MGM logo, which starts with the Orion logo. The movie never had the MGM logo originaly, the real, original movie is starting with the Orion logo.

- Now rip your DD mono from the original 2001 DVD release, or take the original Dark Jedi file.

Just mux the audio mono with a -9000 millisecs and you're rolling.