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#154291
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Help Wanted: Can someone send me free copies of an OOT preservation on DVD?
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Well your other thread was pretty much eluding to the same question, to which I posted:
The general rule of thumb around here is to let the others know what you're looking for and wait for them to PM you. If that doesn't work, you can usually PM the creator of the set, who can either help you out, or recommend someone who can.

Please do not start a new thread just because you didn't get any replies after one day. If you can't get anyone to contact you, then you should try contacting people through private messages or email.
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#153764
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.: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
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I think I came off a little strong in my last post. Those of you who contacted us about the incompleteness of the article were absolutely right to do so, and I hope no bad blood has been shed. You guys actually made us realize that we need to do a better job explaining who our articles are aimed at -- the casual hobbyist, not the expert professional -- and explain where the differences lie in what the articles teach and what we're actually doing with our own equipment. So if nothing else, thank you for that.

I'd love to hear some feedback on this article from anyone who has read it.
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#153370
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.: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
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It has been brought to my attention that certain video experts may inadvertantly perceive our monitor calibration article as a legitimate professional way to calibrate your video system. I would just like to point out that this article is aimed at those who would otherwise skip this essential first step in their video project. By no means is it meant to be taken as gospel as the best way to calibrate your system, nor is it the way we calibrated our own equipment. In fact, the first paragraph of the article says this: "Ideally, you would use a colourimeter to perfectly calibrate your PC monitor and your Broadcast monitor/TV, but you can get very good results using test patterns and the right technique."

Only a professional with the proper calibration tools can perform a full calibration of your system. However, if you are not a professional and/or lack the tools to perform such a procedure, this article does a great job of explaining the basics.

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#151945
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.: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/151945/action/topic#151945
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Originally posted by: mstrchf

If you guys are short of funds you should get cracking with this t-shirt design competiton. I already sketched a few ideas out and have started designing some dvd covers.
Probably jumping the gun a bit but i've got plenty of free time at the moment.

Great to hear! There's no question we're going to need some more fundage if we plan on capturing more than just the Definitives and parts of the Faces sets. Things like obtaining the SC set and more hard drives to store the capture files on is beyond our abilities at the moment.

We are currently mulling some things over as far as merchandise goes, and I'd expect the t-shirt design contest to start soon.
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#151939
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.: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/151939/action/topic#151939
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Guys, keep in mind that although the pre-THX LDs have more detail in certain places due to the temporal smoothing, what they suffer from is a huge difference in color, and lot more noise - which is not something the X0 can eliminate since it comes from the telecine transfer. Take a look at this screencap I did of my three US sets:

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/6963/image61nk.th.jpg
Full-Res

These are not captures from the X0, but from my Pioneer 704. They were captured using the exact same settings with no filters applied. You can see the differences in the color obviously as well as the black levels and overall amount of detail. The SC set would be the best resource to use for shots where the crappy temporal filtering is worse than the crappy pre-THX transfer. It would also help with the starfields. But as you can see in a relatively still shot, both the Faces and Definitives blow it out of the water.