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#261167
Topic
Star Wars HD coming in November! All SIX movies!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/261167/action/topic#261167
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Originally posted by: Dunedain
Well, I'm very glad to hear that an unencrypted broadcast will be made on this SkyHD. But those will be messed up by the PAL speed up. So the video will have to be slowed down and the soundtrack replaced with the U.S. DVD 5.1 soundtrack (unless there's a way to flawlessly correct the sound (so it sounds exactly the same as the U.S. DVD) without replacing the soundtrack). But at least there won't be any German words on the screen fouling up the whole movie.


Agreed. Pal speed-up is teh suck.
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#260246
Topic
The Official babyhum Release Thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/260246/action/topic#260246
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Originally posted by: klokwerk
DFNYC has embraced HD-DVD and doesn't want to have a secondary/cheap DVD player just for PAL discs. He's converting all PAL discs so he can watch them on his HD-DVD player.

I must say that the USA is unlucky not having widespread support for PAL in DVD players and TVs. I know the pros/cons of NTSC and PAL - but at least here in Australia basically all TVs and DVD players can do both NTSC and PAL.



Exactly.
In the US, most players won't play PAL discs...or play them incorrectly.
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#258647
Topic
*** The Official DigitalFreakNYC Release Thread*** (SW, Indy + Others!)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/258647/action/topic#258647
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Originally posted by: tb1971
I have three 2 E.T. specials from betacamSP masters I think. Not sure if any of these is the one you're looking for...

E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL: THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY

- THE EVOLUTION AND CREATION OF E.T.(50:16)
- E.T. COMES HOME (50:18)


Wait...you have two or three? I only see two.

I think both of these are on the regular DVD release, no?

if not, I'd be all over them.

Edit: It looks like the Evolution documentary is on there but E.T. Comes Home is not! I'd love that!
Any chance you could get it onto DVD? If not, I might be able to find a way.
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#258628
Topic
Star Wars HD coming in November! All SIX movies!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/258628/action/topic#258628
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Originally posted by: DVD-BOY
Originally posted by: digitalfreaknyc
Originally posted by: DVD-BOY
I believe if you were going to flip this into another format (MPEG-2 for HD DVD DFNYC ),


Sorry...that's Blu-Ray. HD DVD uses VC1 almost completely and is a much more efficient codec taking up 1/3 the space (sometimes less) than MPEG2 does.


Sorry, I thought I saw you on the AVS forums with regards to making red laser DVDs of HD content, playable in HD-A1 using Ulead's software. Isn't that how you did your Trailer HD DVD?

In the near future, hopefully the homebrew community will be able to run out DVD-Rs / DVD+R DLs with H264 & VC-1 video, but for the short term, HD DVD is stuck with MPEG-2, although at least that works (I understand Blu-ray and Ulead don't)



Oh totally. I'll be doing it with the recent Madonna concert as well. But, yeah, unfortunately we'll be stuck with MPEG2 for the moment because that's all they're offering with regards to authoring. Even still, those MPEG4 captures from the UK are MPEG2 sizes so the quality should be great...but still wouldn't fit all on on DL DVD. We'll have to wait until recordable HD DVD's come out.
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#258626
Topic
The Princess Bride (1987) - The Criterion Collection (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/258626/action/topic#258626
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Originally posted by: bdev
Do the discs use the DVD transfers of those two films, and then use the extras from the laserdiscs, or are they straight LD transfers?


For the Baron Munchausen, I will be sourcing the laserdisc, as it's in the correct aspect ratio. To my understanding, the current DVD releases aren't; at least mine isn't. I haven't looked over the discs yet, but that's my understanding.
--bdev


There's a R2 Superbit.
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#258511
Topic
Star Wars HD coming in November! All SIX movies!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/258511/action/topic#258511
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Originally posted by: Karyudo
People are reporting a size of about 10 GB for each of the three original films from Cinemax. The highest number I've seen quoted is 12 GB, I think -- and who knows what all that includes; there's some "bonus material" that may be included in that total.



I thought no one was able to rip it? If they were, where are these reports coming from and why are we having this discussion?

And like I said, you can get audio from another source. They can be combined, youknow? No more atrocious speedup.


No you can't combine it. You'd have to slow down the video then as well.
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#258493
Topic
Star Wars HD coming in November! All SIX movies!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/258493/action/topic#258493
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Originally posted by: s7en
And do we know if the original broadcast was in MPEG4? I'm 95% sure it wasn't. AFAIK, all broadcast HD would be MPEG2. If you're finding other versions, it's because people have re-compressed it. So that wouldn't be an advantage.

I'm not sure why this is even up for debate.

Yes, the recent German Star Wars HDTV broadcasts were MPEG4. Premiere HD is a MPEG4 based channel.
"Premiere is broadcasting the HD channels using the new MPEG4/H.264 compression procedure "

MPEG2 may be typical of US HDTV broadcasters, but in Europe MPEG4 seems to be the preferred choice. Here in the UK both Sky HD and the BBC's HD service are also broadcast in MPEG4.
Which means another lot of MPEG4 Star Wars HDTV broadcasts when Sky shows all six movies on New Years Day - and another potential source for english language HDTV version of the movies at that point.

More info on UK HDTV standards here.


You learn something new every day Thanks for letting me know! Still, too bad about the PAL speed-up. Otherwise this would have been great!

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#258437
Topic
Star Wars HD coming in November! All SIX movies!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/258437/action/topic#258437
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Originally posted by: BountyHunter
Alright...I really want to help out so what exact info do you need from me, if any?


Bountyhunter,

Unless your DVR has firewire out and you know how to run it from the DVR to your PC plus be able to rip the TS files from the DVR, I don't think you'll be able to handle it. The resulting file will probably be about 12-15GB. It's not a quick one-shot deal.