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#192596
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*** The Official DigitalFreakNYC Release Thread*** (SW, Indy + Others!)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/192596/action/topic#192596
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I don't know that I'm going to do anything with it, honestly. Part of me wants to sync up the laserdisc track with it because people bitched about the sound on the other release. Then another part of me just wants to put it to bed because, quite honestly, i'm really sick of Blade Runner. That's why I've been working on these other projects.
I guess we'll have to see.
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#192472
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*** The Official DigitalFreakNYC Release Thread*** (SW, Indy + Others!)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/192472/action/topic#192472
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OK so here's what I'm hoping to have on this disc. I'm just going through this authoring now.

The Making of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Teaser Trailer
International Trailer
4 UK Television Spots
"Anything Goes" Music Video
2 ABC TV Previews

God willing it will all fit on one disc. Honestly, it was a serious bitch to get a good version of main special. I went through about 5 different versions to get the best picture and sound possible. It's not great but definitely very good.
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#192391
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<strong><strong>BLADE RUNNER: The Unauthorized OFF-WORLD Box Set</strong></strong> (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/192391/action/topic#192391
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Originally posted by: Rikter
Originally posted by: digitalfreaknyc


So I wait for your enlightened response.



1 - I'm not a Blade Runner Expert (like yourself) nor have I EVER claimed to know anything about Blade Runner at all, but I dug the ORIGINAL movie as I saw it in the theaters (and I really dug your shrunk version of the HD broadcast of the D.C.) AND I'm certainly NOT a part or a member of the Esper Team, so I would have NO IDEA about any of the soundtracks or their sources (and I REALLY doubt you do either so UNLESS ESPER chimes in... its hearsay)

2 - I've NEVER heard of ANY of these CD's until I started this project so THEY are all new to me and I REALLY REALLY do not care about where they come from (notice I didn't ask for the source this time?!?) but if you REALLY care (like you seem to) go Google it or something.

3 - I have NO idea what I've done for you to be all over my ass on every forum I've posted on, First I try to work out some trades with you - you never get back at me about them, you’re always making some comment about any release I do or that you have a better version. (on and on and on much like a jealous child) Then you’re all over me because I simply asked for the source of the 1080i Blade Runner (which you went fucking nuts over and I was honestly just curious man) - so what's the deal man? I'm not the only one that has notice that you’re just a dick to some people. (and yes, I know that I'm an ass but I try to be cool to you and everyone else include all the people that email me asking to seed)

4. Please man, if you don't like my releases or my projects just don't deal with them, you know… OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MIND - I'm REALLY not doing them to please you.

5. I’m done with you and your needless, unwanted and unwarranted “blah, blah, blah”, so you win okay; YOU ARE THE WINNER of what ever it is you’re trying to achieve by all your witty comments and statements and I yield to your greatness. (Does this make you feel better now?) BUT please keep making your comments and remarks; my subscription to the Funny Times just lapsed

6. Are you enlightened yet?

Yet I must be honest, I will still trade for or download your DVD’s even though I do not like you as a person - I still do think you release some DAMN GREAT DVD’s!!!



Re: #6. No, I'm really not.

Every time i tried to contact you about a trade, you disappeared. No biggie. There isn't anything you have (that I'm aware of) that I would need at this point. No harm, no foul.

I'm just curious why someone who doesn't know much about Blade Runner and just "digs" it would try and create something like this. Wouldn't it make more sense to know the history of it? That's like me jumping out there and making some discs of Star Trek when I know jack shit about it.

You're also just taking discs (with the audio) and trying to make some sense out of them. That seems sloppy. Don't claim that you're going to have something that you can't possibly have. That screws people up.

I've downloaded the Esper CD's. They sound like complete shit. All they did was try and extract the soundtrack from the actual movie. It doesn't take much to be able to hear sound effects throughout.

And I've it's going to be "tit for tat," I've talked to people about your being a dick to others as well. Happy? And fyi, your little rant doesn't help that image.

If you can't take a little criticism, then why are you here doing this? Obviously this is still in the planning stages and since you, by your own admission, don't really know much about the movie, I thought I'd lend my 2 cents. But obviously you don't really care about that. You'd just prefer putting out something that's "cool."

I wasn't "all over you" regarding the BR 1080i thing. In fact, I wasn't the only one trying to get it through your head that it was a new transfer. You kept complaining about it when you had never even SEEN it and wouldn't drop it, even when several people said that it was a brand new transfer; here and on other forums. Maybe if you did the research (much like here), YOU, sir, would've been enlightened.

Oh and btw...funny how you didn't think of doing this until you saw how popular my Blade Runner set was. So now were "trumping" that (much like you did with the Superman discs) by releasing your own 4 disc set. Yah, that's really mature.



To be honest, do what you want with this set. Now, with you asking people to reconstruct a trailer that has footage that's not even in the final movie, this sounds like it's going to be one heaping mess. But if you had watched it enough, you would know that.....not to mention the fact that you're putting 2 versions of the movie on one disc...one of which (the workprint) has terrible quality as it is.


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#192343
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<strong><strong>BLADE RUNNER: The Unauthorized OFF-WORLD Box Set</strong></strong> (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/192343/action/topic#192343
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Originally posted by: Rikter
Originally posted by: digitalfreaknyc


uhh...there are no alternate takes. there's only 1 soundtrack that's from the official tapes and that's the Gongo one. the rest are just re-recordings.


- Uhh, yes there are. It would seem that you do not have the 5 Esper CD's which have a few alternate takes and extended cuts and the "Sunetul Original Al Filmului Muzica De Vangelis" is missinge a few of these as well as some orther minor cues which the Esper sets have such as track 13 - Blade Runner Blues (Extended Version) or stuff like track 10. Seventh Sector - Apartment 9726 (Reprise) - AND THESE are the ALTERNATE tracks that I'm using in MY ALTERNATE SOUNDTRACK SCORE.


Cool. And where, exactly, do these esper sets have their music from? As far as i know, all the esper sets have music ripped right from the movie, sound effects and all. And I've NEVER heard of tracks directly from the recording sessions for the film OTHER than the Gongo. The rest were all re-recordings. So I wait for your enlightened response.
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#191942
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<strong><strong>BLADE RUNNER: The Unauthorized OFF-WORLD Box Set</strong></strong> (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/191942/action/topic#191942
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Originally posted by: Rikter
DAMN there are so many soundtracks and so many alternate takes that doing the score is driving me crazy!!! (that's why I'm doing so many audio tracks) - I'm gonna runn a few versions by a few folks here to get there take on them and I'm also willing to take suggestions on what tracks to place (and where) so if you have any ideas please drop me a message

I'm going to take a few days off from the BR set and get Zootie running about 90% again this weekend and I also might try to get the B210 running as well AND I promise I'll answer a bunch of emails this weekend also!!


uhh...there are no alternate takes. there's only 1 soundtrack that's from the official tapes and that's the Gongo one. the rest are just re-recordings.
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#191468
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Info Wanted: Superbit?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/191468/action/topic#191468
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Originally posted by: gltaylor74
they are a very bad alternative. I thought the same as you. I tried them on two different dvd players and they were of poor quality and were continually skipping and stuttering, etc. Do not expect a quality product.


Actually...mine work perfectly. I've had them for quite some time. Considering you can't get the official ones for less than $300-400 if you're lucky, it's a no-brainer.
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#191182
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Info Wanted: Superbit?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/191182/action/topic#191182
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Originally posted by: bad_karma24
Originally posted by: Boomstick
Originally posted by: gltaylor74


Just to note, the Jurassic Park superbit sets on ebay are bootlegs. AS noted earlier, you will pay dearly for the geniune Jurassic park alone, let alone all three films.


The Jurassic Park Superbits that I looked at certainly weren't bootlegs, hence the price I mentioned.


Yeah, the Jurassic Park Superbits probably aren't bootlegs.



BUT...bootlegs of all 3 show up on Ebay all the time.

However, they are direct rips of the OOP Japanese discs. They're a great alternative for those interested
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#190606
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Info Wanted: Superbit?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/190606/action/topic#190606
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Originally posted by: zion
Originally posted by: gltaylor74
I always felt that ld basically used the theatrical mix whereas DVD's are often "remixed" for home theater. When comparing the Star Wars Episode I DD DVD (at 448kbps) to the DD on the LD (at 384kbps) it is no contest. The LD is far more agressive of a mix and faithfully represents the theatrical viewing experience that I had. The DVD sounds "dumbed down" so to speak.

I have not compared the DD to the DTS on the R2 Jurassic park superbit. I know that the DTS is only at a rate of 754kbps and does not use the full 1509kbps as some early DTS DVD's did. DTS laserdisc for reference used a bitrate of 1235kbps. I remeber that when the R1 Jurassic park came out, the DTS DVD was very very weak and was easily bested by the DD DVD. It was found that an encoding error occured on the DTS DVD and cut it's LFE channel by 4db. A repressed DTS DVD was made available that was said to be created from the DTS laserdisc master and it shows. I believe that the Jurassic park superbit DTS is this same mix as it sounds very similar to the DTS DVD.


I must've had the repressed DTS version then because it sounded amazing. Someone stole the disc out of my disc wallet though.

I wonder if it's an increased dynamic range that makes the LD sound so good?



Laserdiscs aren't compressed AT ALL. That's what makes them sound great.
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#190603
Topic
<strong><strong>BLADE RUNNER: The Unauthorized OFF-WORLD Box Set</strong></strong> (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/190603/action/topic#190603
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Moth3r,

I noticed the issue with my release but thought my eyes were playing tricks on me. No, it's not an NTSC issue because the version I made with TMPGENC is fantastic and doesn't have the same flaws.

it was a flaw with HDTV2DVD. In fact, I sent all my info to it's creator and I won't be using it any more because of it.

And in regards to your smart-ass comment, there's a BIG difference between something that is overall crap and what I released. 98% of the people who downloaded my version of BR didn't notice a problem.
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#190093
Topic
<strong><strong>BLADE RUNNER: The Unauthorized OFF-WORLD Box Set</strong></strong> (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/190093/action/topic#190093
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Originally posted by: Citizen
Originally posted by: digitalfreaknyc
As per Rikter above, my version wouldn't fit any more audio tracks than just one. This is pure audio/video quality.


You used HDTV2DVD didn't you? what kind of output does it give? I used a few different programs to extract the audio & video, do the pulldown removal and then a 3-pass CCE encode from a huffyuv avi. 4600kbps avg with two 384kbps DD 5.1 tracks.



No he didn't. That's the program that gave my V1 the problems it had.
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#189630
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<strong><strong>BLADE RUNNER: The Unauthorized OFF-WORLD Box Set</strong></strong> (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/189630/action/topic#189630
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Originally posted by: Rikter
Originally posted by: digitalfreaknyc
Rikter,

Guess you don't want my new version??

- I had planned on possibly using you're new version, but there were no updates and I'm dying to get this project over with so I can move on to my Datsuns!!!!! AND I still may use it if I can get a copy to evaluate and be sure that it would have room for 1 PCM track and about 5 other DD or MPEG 2.0 audio tracks

What's with the sample you put up?


- Well it is a sample of my 1080i to DL DVD, sized to allow for all of the audio tracks I plan on using I posted some details on myspleen but I just moved my parts car today so I'm beat down for the night otherwise I would repost the info here...

AND on that note is your new version done and ready???


My version has BEEN done. It takes up both layers (pretty much) completely.