TripleHBK

I have access to HDTV airings of the films from IFC last Summer.  I've only actually taken the time to rip Jaws the revenge so far (the rest are still on my cable box), but in it's raw form (complete with commercials and in 1080i format) it's 12.1 GB in size.  I was having problems with my Cable signal around this time, and I actually recorded them twice in an effort to clear up digital artifacts.  I believe these 2nd rips are of better quality, but I actually haven't watched any of these presentations, so i can't promise they're all that great.  

I rip things in 1080i at 13mbps (the highest settings my capture device supports).  I know AMC has been showing the films lately as well and I could capture fresh airings from there if need be also (assuming that the films are shown again).  The HDTV airings didn't look like upscales to me, but I can't state that definitively.  I'm happy to help as long as I'm given access to the final product (and preferably if you could organize them into a BDMV format as I'd like to create BD-R's.) 

ScruffyNerfHerder said:

If I may, I'd like to bring this topic back on topic. :) While everyone has a right to express themselves, and to disagree at times, the reason that I joined Original Trilogy, is because everyone here loves film. We're passionate, and that's a good thing, but I think it's time to return to the discussion of Team Blu's work. :) 

On that note, I'm happy to say that the BD XL discs I ordered have arrived and I'm one giant step closer to watching Team Blu's Terminator 2! I can't wait! I also just upgraded my receiver to a nice new Denon with Dolby Atmos. I can't wait to hear the CDS theatrical soundtrack in Atmos. :) A great film from my childhood finally married with great audio and video. 

So, a big, hearty "thank you!" to Dark Jedi, You Too and the rest of Team Blu. Your work really is pro-level. I can't wait to see what you guys come up with next. In the meantime, "hasta la vista, baby!" :)

 Any Particular reason you're using a BD XL disc for that release?  I burned it just fine on a BD-50.

EDIT: I agree with everything you said as well... 

Vinnie981 said:

Monroville said:

Vinnie981 said:

as I said Ill drop it. I know the truth and thats all that matters to me.

 Sorry for the drama... hopefully the TeamBlu releases that are already on Blu-torrent will continue to remain.

Also: if someone has the CONAN 2 blu-ray set and is willing to upload it on BT, would you consider giving it the "100% free" torrent designation too?  I am also guessing someone took down the NEVERENDING STORY 2 blu-ray set?

 jedi removed some of his uploaded before he was banned. selfish on his part as there where active leechers and seeders on them

 Conan was never uploaded there, though nearly everything else that Team Blu Released that I'm aware of was at one point.

TripleHBK said:

Awful quiet these days, any news to share on how some of the future projects are coming along?

 When I typed this 1 month ago, this wasn't exactly the kind of excitement I was looking for around here.  

In the mean time while I wait for some more positive news (hopefully sometime this Summer), I might try to jump back into reviewing the rest of the Team Blu releases I hadn't/haven't yet watched.  I got half way through Maximum overdrive's write-up and just sort of fizzled out.  As unprofessional as they may be, the things still take a good 2-3 hours each to write at a minimum.  I still have the following releases to review...

-Maximum Overdrive

-NOTLD '90

-Fright Night II

-The Never Ending Story 

-The White Buffalo

-Terminator

-Terminator II Judgement Day

-The Ninja Trilogy

-Conan (Which I haven't acquired yet)

Quite the list for sure.  I've only watched the Fright Night II and NOTLD'90 release a few years ago (both of which are amazing and getting must own rankings when i finally review them) so it'll be fun checking out the rest.

Avarath said:

Has anyone used https://mega.co.nz/?  Not sure if this would be a good alternative or not. See below

"Mega: Internet outlaw Kim Dotcom released this service one year after the U.S. government shut down its predecessor, MegaUpload, for facilitating copyright infringement. The new tool promises “state of the art, browser-based encryption technology” and a whopping 50 GB of free cloud storage."

 I initially brought up this idea some months ago before the BT trial run.  Mega.co.nz does work to an extant, I've used it with some success with my Friday the 13th 3D project.  But that was for a much smaller 11gb file and not the quality 20-40gb projects team Blu releases.  It would require a bit of effort, but Mega.co.nz could work in certain situations though it's a bit more effort than what we're familiar with.

 

"Also why in the hell would I want anymore of our releases there now when I cannot even be there..."

 From my end it shows that you are a regular member with an "Outstanding" reputation.  I didn't realize you had been full on banned from the site as it doesn't reflect that in any way from our end.  A great deal of my thoughts and frustration came from the belief that you had access to the site, but were choosing not to utilize it.  Obviously the fact that you've been outright banned (for a full year no less) changes things considerably and makes everything else that you've said make more sense.  Thanks for taking the time to clarify the situation.  Keep us updated on anything TeamBlu is up to, and whether you are in a situation that could benefit from any support.  

Thanks again for all the great releases that have come thus far, I look forward to what the future holds.  

x5gb said:

Can someone explain what's wrong with newsgroups, longetivity is like 6 years, no need for anyone to seed. Is it to do with cost or something else.

  I'm not paying for a newsgroup subscription.  I've openly stated I'd be willing to help pay for a seedbox, or to help with other issues as they arise, and I've helped pay for for the Back-up HDD in the past as well.  At this point I'd rather just straight up purchase completed projects for $20-$25 a piece than have to pay for for a newsgroup subscription.  I think if distribution is going to be a problem, creating a "Safe List" of known contributors/donors/members might be a safe guaranteed alternative.  

I don't know what happened at BT, but if the point is to have a free and safe location to share projects, I don't see why we wouldn't continue to use that location if it's available to us regardless of whether we have administrative access or special privileges.  When that relationship began, no one was looking for special privileges, extra content,  to stream films online, or even to be treated as a VIP... All anyone wanted was to simply find a fast and safe place to share the projects.  Something BT fit to a T.  This site has always been the primary discussion location to discuss these projects, so even having access to a forum or conversations isn't necessary anywhere else.  

Furthermore, it's been stated on numerous occasions in the past when there was no central location for the files to be shared, that people were free to upload/share TeamBlu's projects anywhere/everywhere, as long as proper credit is given.   What has changed that now we are being discouraged from using what is essentially the safest and fastest service everyone has access to?  Was whatever that went down so bad that we need to walkaway from everything?  This seems to punish all the wrong people.  Wouldn't a better option be to continue to utilize the infrastructure there and to continue to release projects while just avoiding all other aspects of the site?  

We don't need a custom designed forum and special features to essentially share a link that guides us to a file.  Why not continue to utilize what's available to us while looking for other options and just not use the site for any other reason? 

Ultimately I'm not a member of TeamBlu, so I have no say or impact on what the group ultimately decides to do, what I am however is a very big supporter of the work that they do and someone that has, and will continue to contribute in any way that he can.  As long as I can continue to find a way to access the projects they release, I'll make do, but it seems a shame to deny so many folks that are interested in these projects a means to get them easily when the infrastructure is already in place, but a conscious decision to not use that infrastructure has been made because of hard feelings between a few people.  Maybe what happened between TeamBlu and BT was bad enough to warrant this decision, I'll never know, but I've been a part of enough message boards, and forum feuds of the past 16 years to know that giving up a sure fire thing because of a disagreement/personal conflict between members never benefits anyone. 

dark_jedi said:

OK Guys with a bit of bad news, our partnership at BT has come to an end, it has come to my attention that I was being lied to from vinnie, I have zero respect for that kind of shit, especially after all the very nice things I have said about him and the Site, now while I think he is a piece of garbage I truly do like the Site, so from here on out we will no longer be able to share there, and I would appreciate it very much if those of you that can will respect our wishes and NOT upload any future projects there, I was also banned from the Site by the aformentioned piece of you know what lol.

So, I am back to square one on what to do with sharing, the only release that is ready now is Jason Goes to Hell Unrated, so I may sit on this for a while until we figure this out, if any of you have any suggestions please by all means fire away.

I will post more info when I have it, Thanks Guys!

 Well shit... that really sucks, JGTH has been the release I've been most looking forward to as well for the past few years.  BT seemed like such a good match for TeamBlu as well, it's disappointing to say the least that that partnership is no more.  I've picked up every Team Blu release thus far and was looking forward to this years release slate as you teased some fantastic titles over the last few months. For what it's worth, you don't appear to be banned from what I can see, just demoted (but your reputation is still listed as outstanding).  Hopefully something can be worked out sooner rather than later.  Would a seedbox work on it's own?  If interested parties all "donated" a few dollars here and there to keep one up and running Team Blu releases could be "Stored" there with access given via e-mail or PM to "donors".  Just a thought.

I know Team Blu already has a full schedule of releases and is no longer taking suggestions, but....  With the recent release of Ghoulies/Ghoulies II on Blu Ray, the edited scenes from Ghoulies II have been included, in HD, in the special features section.  It'd be awesome to have them reinserted back into the film so that we can finally have a high quality R Rated cut of Part 2.  Any takers? 

I agree completely.  A far bigger fus was made to restore a poster in a Rogger Rabbit short than this.  With a bit of trickery this corrected short could be reinserted onto the pixar shorts Blu Ray was a well.  I found the write up pretty entertaining also.  Keep doing your thing OP.

Avarath said:

How do I get an invite? Seems my messages are left ignored :(

 You have 2 posts on this site.  It would help if you were a regular contributing member of the forum before asking for an invite.  I can't speak for anyone else, but the first thing I look at is how long someone has been a member and how many posts they have before deciding whether to respond to a request for something.  People that joined the site just to ask me or someone else to send them something generally get ignored.  I will say that you at least set an avatar for yourself which (in theory) means you plan on establishing an identity here which goes a long way in my book.

Funcha said:

Got to share the theatrical cut of The Neverending Story with my 6-year-old via that TeamBlu release. Thought it looked very filmlike and nice with no compression issues whatsoever. The DTS 5.1 sounded very nice. Great work once again! My boy said that he wants to see part two and three now ... and I haven't been able to break it to him just yet that they probably suck. :)

 I always liked Part II more than Part I as a kid.  Part 3 is an abomination and should be avoided at all costs, but I always liked part 2.  It's available for 7.88 if you have a wal-mart near you.  I picked up Part II when Team Blu put out their release for Part 1 and had planned on a double feature night, but thus far haven't gotten around to watching either yet.  

There are an abundance of seeders on Blu at the moment and the speed is top notch.  I used tsMuxer the other night and switched the .mkv file to a BD folder structure just fine. I'm going to try my hand at switching out both the Uncensored film and short this week using the instructions posted earlier in the thread. 

Thanks so much for making this available Suntech, and thanks to Space Kaijuu and everyone else that pieced this film back together!

Awful quiet these days, any news to share on how some of the future projects are coming along?

suntech said:

TripleHBK said:

suntech said:

Feallan said:

IIRC the full version wasn't MKV, but a BD50 disc instead.

It's not on Myspleen anymore, I don't know why. The uploader was Myspleen user JunkersHVN, you can send him a message.

Keep a look out on the site that is Blu

 

 If this shows up on the BT I'll be sure to grab it and help seed it as well.  I'm interested in a full BD-50, but not so much the smaller file.  It'd make a nice addition to the official release.  Sort of an unofficial "Directors Cut" disk 2.

 Some one asked for the 25gb mkv file, I know it exists, because I got it. I don't remember where.  I give up trying to help out tried to up it at a certain Blu site, but the more I try to get it out there the more problems I have.  I am going to call it a day.  I am done Got better things to do with my time.

 It's listed on BT... no seeders though.  You'll have to leave the program up and running until a few folks can snag it.  Maybe you can talk with vinnie and see if he'd put it on a seedbox for you?  I appreciate the effort.  The file you uploaded is 24.9gb which from my experience requires a bd-50 to burn it.  24.3 is the max amount of data I've ever successfully burned to a BD-25.  Either way, I appreciate the effort.

suntech said:

Feallan said:

IIRC the full version wasn't MKV, but a BD50 disc instead.

It's not on Myspleen anymore, I don't know why. The uploader was Myspleen user JunkersHVN, you can send him a message.

Keep a look out on the site that is Blu

 

 If this shows up on the BT I'll be sure to grab it and help seed it as well.  I'm interested in a full BD-50, but not so much the smaller file.  It'd make a nice addition to the official release.  Sort of an unofficial "Directors Cut" disk 2.

Watched Maximum Overdrive Last night (Loved it!) Plan on getting the Review up in the next few days.  In the meantime though...

Went with the Clear Case look...

If anyone can help with how the Posters were printed I'd be appreciative.

Woohoo!  About 50% downloaded at the moment.  Not sure I'll watch it this weekend (Decided to Watch [Rec] and [Rec]2 tonight) and I was leaning towards reviewing Maximum Overdrive this weekend, but we'll see how I feel tomorrow.  Thanks!

blackest said:

anybody managed to find a hd version of this yet?? got a fan made dvd which is watchable but would love to find a hd version...seems like nobody has it though?

 I continue to check each week myself but haven't had any luck finding an HD rip of this either.  I've heard reports that it exists though, which is certainly encouraging.

This weeks review... Lake Placid: The Final Chapter.

dark_jedi said:

NO edited track needed lol, I needs the original unaltered so I guess we will see if anyone will help or not.

We have big, big plans for Night, Dawn and Day.

 Like pmonroe I don't have access to the laser disk or older DVD releases.  I do have both Dawn and Day from the now out of print Anchor Bay Blu Ray's (as well as the DVD release of Dawn also from Anchor Bay from the mid 2000's) , but that's it.  I know that most of the sources you usually need come from foreign releases or Laser Disc these days, but if there's ever a Blu Ray release you need access to, feel free to look through my list on Blu-ray.com and shoot me a pm.    

My Latest Review: This week it's "Lake Placid 3:Uncut".

Congrats Space Kaijuu!  Can you share what you'll be helping with?  Like are you an audio guy, a video guy, menus, cover art, A source for supplying various video/audio, Etc?  Even if you can't say, I'm glad to see TeamBlu expanding and look forward to more releases!

Deafmobil said:

hello friends, please send me pn downloadlink for evil dead 2013 extended cut 1080i hdtv. thanks!

No.

On another note I've managed to snag a low resolution copy of the film (640x360), however haven't seen any HD versions yet.  Check the spleen for the low res version.  Hopefully the reports of a 1080i version are true.

As always I'm just happy to have been given a chance to view the great work TeamBlu put's into these releases.  The reviews are the least I can do.  I pm'd you on BT with the link to all the reviews as you requested.  Let me know if you don't get it as I never received a PM from you today.