digitalfreaknyc

Got another request. Anyone have Shawshank Redemption from other regions?

Germany Blu-ray & DVD (Eurovideo)
Making-of documentary (21:38)

Scandinavia DVD: (SME / Future Film / Atlantic Film)
Behind-the-scenes featurette (4:00)
"Production" featurette (5:23)
8 interviews
– Morgan Freeman (1:27)
– Tim Robbins (2:03)
– Clancy Brown (0:14)
– Frank Darabont (7:12)
– William Sadler (0:49)
– James Whitmore (0:22)
– Bob Gunton (0:21)
– Niki Marvin (0:58)

I'm putting together a Blu-ray compilation of all of Babyhum's discs. Anyone interested in making some artwork for that?

I'm only looking for HD files, thanks.

Anybody willing to do a trade? Or work something out for some of these?

I really wish someone would do an HD restoration of all the trailers.

You might want to change Stephen to Steven. ;)

Anyone able to do Evita?

Spaced Ranger said:

drngr said:
Only recently, the HDMI boards have started showing up on eBay instead of just the import sites.

Are there any non-eBay sites (like the DX site -- easily available to the U.S. with normal credit cards) that carry these items? The HDMI 3D Splitter 1x4 looks useful and capping up to 1080-24p (including all the lower resolutions) should cover any future situation. Raw capturing is useful (especially for later editing), but unobtrusively compressed recordings, for later viewing with a minimum of fuss, is fine (in this ease-of-use scenario, HDMI for recording both video and audio would be best).

Only ... I can't determine which products produce "clean" signals for recording just by reading the minimal descriptions. Any pointers on what to look for?

I don't understand why they would even make an HDMI card that can't capture 5.1. It's pointless.

13mbps is MORE than enough to capture broadcast signals. Remember, broadcast is mpeg-2 but it's being re-compressed in AVC, which is MUCH more efficient.
And should 13 not be enough for you, the internal capture card can go up to 20mbps. Overkill IMHO.

And, again, the Hauppauge is the only viable and realistic option for getting phenomenal results with 5.1 sound.

I would have purchased any other possibility. With all the HD archiving I do, there is no other option.

drngr said:

An $150 card that can only capture unencrypted HDMI or analog YPbPr to 13Mbps H.264 with no option for uncompressed 2-channel audio (forced AAC)

vs.

A $110 card that can capture any HDMI or YPbPr to uncompressed/lossless with uncompressed 2-channel audio

 

Not drinking that Hauppauge Kool-Aid.

Does anyone have the dutch version of Young Guns (the first one)?

It has:
"Making-Of" featurette
"Behind-the-Scenes" featurette
Interviews with:
- Director/producer Christoper Cain
- Writer/executive producer John Fusco
- Actor Lou Diamond Phillips
- Actor Emilio Estevez
- Actor Dermot Mulroney
- Actor Charlie Sheen
- Actor Casey Siemaszko
- Actor Terenece Stamp
- Actor Kiefer Sutherland

Just wondering! :)

digitalfreaknyc said:

Does anyone know what happened to babyhum? I've tried messaging and emailing. No response.

This site is impossible to navigate if you're searching. Is there anyway to have a search function on it? It's almost archaic without it.

I know it used to have a very primitive version but I can't even find that any more.

Why don't people tweet or email Rintzler and ask? Can't hurt.

I know it may seem backwards to some of you but I've started re-doing some of my earlier discs on blu-ray. I'm not re-encoding but more combining and adding.

At this point, I'm working on my Jaws, E.T. and Indiana Jones discs. I have a TON of new Indiana Jones stuff that I'm throwing into those discs.

The problem is that I know a lot of people are not able to burn blu-ray's so it's a bit limiting but...I'm just doing this mostly for myself and if other people can benefit, then that's what I care about.

If anyone is interested, I'm happy to list what's going on the discs. I'm thinking I might share them on myspleen as well.

FremenDar said:

Will there ever be BD25 AVC (instead of MPEG2 480p) versions of any of the ALIEN Appendices discs? Perhaps even a 1080p version of the ALIEN: Extended Edition? Already own the UK ALIEN Anthology Blu-ray set and I was going to buy another multi-disc Blu-ray case. Only so I won't use anymore DVDs and have everything on Blu-ray for these.

poita said:

There are collector forums.

Got this up and running last night! SCORE! So excited to be archiving something else!

Now the question is where to find more of these. Any ideas? :( Other than Ebay, I'm at a loss.

Troyig88 said:

Its great they are doing that but what good is it if it never gets released.  No disrespect to the team.

crissrudd4554 said:

The track removed from previous home video versions was 'Having My Baby' by Paul Anka which was played during the beach scene involving the death of the Kitner boy. Most pre-1995 releases feature an alternate song (title I dont know). However, I have a few copies of the 1983 pan and scan VHS and while most feature the replaced song, one of them I believe has the original song. On another note, one thing that I'm surprised is absent on current releases is Cassidy's burp after Chrissie is pulled under. I was watching the 1995 VHS a few months ago and compared it to the 5.1 and mono tracks on the DVD and if you listen carefully you can faintly hear it but nowhere near as clear than on the VHS. I noticed other things that sounded more up front on the VHS than the DVD. Examples include the dialogue when the shark tugs the boat and Brody's yelp when the wires holding the cage snap. 

Hauppauge. That's all you need to know. No lists. Will do anything you need.

I know no one at a TV station, unfortunately. I just bought 5 or 6 tapes and that would be a long time to record.

I looked into having it transferred and it's $50 a tape which I'm NOT spending. :(

I'm still looking into Ebay options. Looks like I'll be spending $300-400 on it. I'm fine with that because I still have the hope that I'll find others, which will also be on Betacam-SP. But I'll also have this hunk of machine sitting in my living room....along with my laserdisc player :)

Tom Servo said:

I believe i downloaded this version a few weeks ago from a torrent site, since it has the same menus and bonus features.  I was wondering what kind of blu ray player and TV people are viewing this on.  It plays flawlessly on my PC, but after burning the first disc to BD-R and playing it on my TV, it judders like crazy.  Even the slightest movements have a noticeable frame interlacing issue,  and when there is a panning shot, it looks like a 10.0 earthquake, double and triple vision of objects on the screen.  I have been trying to understand why this happens with this disc and nothing else that I've ever viewed on it, including blu ray movies, and TV.  It's a Vizio LCD with 240hz refresh, and should be able to display this just fine theoretically.

I'm just trying to figure out why it looks like a nightmare on my TV, and literally hurts the eyes to look the interlacing issue for too long.  This isn't a complaint about your work, it's obviously has something to do with my TV, like I said, it is perfectly smooth on my PC.  But it makes no sense, I've never seen anything quite like it before, not even close, with anything else I've ever viewed on it.  I've tried different "smooth motion" settings on the TV and it made no difference.

poita said:

A simple BNC to RCA cable will work from a Betacam Deck to your capture card.

Capture via component for best results.