drngr

AntcuFaalb said:

drngr said:

Resizing to 720p should effectively blur the aliasing. The glitches themselves aren't fixed by correcting field order transitions.

Damn. Do you happen to have any frame-numbers I can check?

My frame numbers are with Honor Pulldown Flags and then a manual IVTC attempt.

99465 (1:09:08). I also have a note saying "video glitches when Neo turns and tries to shoot agent that dodges" which I assume refers to 1:46:14, but I don't see anything wrong there at a casual glance now.

79962 is where one pattern break happens (at a scene change).

Resizing to 720p should effectively blur the aliasing. The glitches themselves aren't fixed by correcting field order transitions.

The one on Usenet is just a binary combine of the three Russian .MPG files.

There are multiple issues with that HDTV capture, some of which were discussed in the thread that spawned this one.

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/The-Matrix-with-original-theatrical-color-timing/post/638963/#TopicPost638963

• At least a couple glitches in the recording, and the pulldown pattern changes at least once.
• There is horizontal aliasing. It looks like they took a 1440x1080 HDCAM master and resized it to 1920x1080 using point-resize. This can be fixed by downscaling and upscaling horizontally with a softer resizer. (I did that for the screenshot comparison)
• Recording stops during end credits.
• Being Super35, they cropped the sides off a bit to make the open matte transfer.
• Compression.

Watercolor effect. :\ The bottom pic is super noisy but doesn't look like a painting.

AntcuFaalb said:

Unfortunately, I don't know anything about that machine and I can't find the service manual online. :-/

Dunno if it helps, but there is a parts list. If it follows the convention of the rest of their players of referring to the video processor as IC3001, it's C1AB00002748 which Encompass Parts says is also in EA38V, EZ28, and EZ48V.

There were one or two D-VHS players with HDMI outputs, yes, but that would be capturing the decompressed display and not the transport stream. You would have to recompress.

D-Theater releases don't have any protection beyond DTCP (5C); they are just marked Copy Never. I think the people who ripped the D-Theater tapes just used this device. It's hush-hush even in the underground though.

Matt_Stevens said:

Hey anyone know if it's possible to crack DVHS recordings that are Copy Once protected? I have numerous never going to be released titles on DVHS I'd love to rescue to Blu Ray. 

Possible, yes, with some big clunky hardware. Are you willing to send hundreds of dollars to a random guy overseas? I can try to dig up the info, I think he charges $300-400.

In theory, but it still wouldn't be worth scanning when there is a flat print to scan: it would use less of the film area and further lose resolution due to optical anamorphic squeeze.

The one film trailer I own is open matte flat for a 1.85 film and the same thing on DVD is cropped from 1.37 down to 2.35.

ww12345 said:

OK, if someone can tell me how to save images from that eBay auction, I'll post them up here.

I seem to be able to right-click and Save As all images on eBay in the current Firefox. A month or two back I had to resort to tricks like Inspect Element or searching the source for the JPG URLs... so try that.

But it would be cropped...

This is common to the vast majority of Warner Blu-rays. The Japanese audio and subtitles are marked as hidden in the playlist and not shown on the menu. If you set your Blu-ray player language to Japanese then it loads the JP menu, unhides the Japanese tracks, and hides everything else except the original audio.

According to that page their timeframe for shipping the product is March/April 2014. By then AVerMedia's USB3 1080p60 uncompressed capture device should be out for much less than $259, and who knows what other options will be announced or available.

They don't mention what they're doing about HDCP, but I wonder what kind of legal trouble they could get into if they don't stay under the radar.

dark_jedi said:

Convoy would be another good one.

Released in the UK by StudioCanal: http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Convoy-Blu-ray/74446/

I didn't see a visible resolution drop anywhere but I did see one shot that looked browner than the ones surrounding it.

Also a lot of red splotches in black areas. :(

But overall it looks awesome.

About the same as now, with a slight improvement. :P

Not like it's suddenly gonna be 720p.

Well the first thing to check is whether you can capture unencrypted HDMI sources. Try a camcorder, or computer or Xbox 360 not playing a video and set to output 720p or 1080i.

_,,,^..^,,,_ said:

I'm still looking further info of the comb filter of the Osprey Viewcast PCI models, but without success.

All of the photos I've seen of their cards show a Conexant Fusion 878A chip. The data sheet from 1999 shows that this chip uses a notch filter.

You may want to take a look at what this guy has been doing: (WIP) Laserdisc software image decoder from raw signal

If you look two posts down from that he said what he thought of it.

If you look at a Spectral Frequency Display in Adobe Audition (I think Soundbooth too) you can see that the low-frequency hum comes up to almost 500Hz, and overlaps with the low-end of their speech.

Dunno what you can do.

There is no quote from Cameron that they regrained it, so you'll never accept any deduction based on what he did say.

I edited my post with the direct link grabbed from the source. Skip to 5:43. Quite apart from "minimizing", he literally says that they fully removed the grain, twice:

"completely denoised and degrained it"... "we got rid of all the grain"

There is also his insane "uprezzed" word choice that helps nothing.

Matt_Stevens said:

Again, I'd like to see an actual quote from Cameron. A link. No one has ever provided me with one when I ask. If he said it, then please, let me see it so I can put Cameron in the fruitloop category.

Who have you been asking? The link was posted on AVS in 2010.

http://www.avsforum.com/t/1258568/alien-anthology/450#post_19056182

http://cms.springboard.gorillanation.com/embed_code_lightbox/index/71/single/184853/cs002/10/420/340/0/false/source/

"I just did a complete remaster of Aliens. Personally. With the same colorist that I worked with on Avatar. And it's spectacular. We went in and we completely denoised and degrained it, uprezzed it, color-corrected it, end-to-end, every frame... it looks amazing. It looks better than it looked in theaters... originally. 'Cause it was shot on a high-speed negative that was a new negative that didn't pan out too well and got replaced the following year, so it was pretty grainy. We got rid of all the grain. It's sharper and clearer and more beautiful than it's ever looked. And we did that to the long version, to the 'director's cut' or the 'extended play', ya know. I call it the FM mix."

What's the basis for the idea that shots lacking a blue tint are the theatrical colors, as opposed to an untimed transfer?

I just clicked on the Watch HDX button on a movie and I can't even get it to play in Firefox, never mind download illegitimately.

dark_jedi said:

most all the links are dead because of linking to ebay, can you post links to an actual Store next time where items can be purchased or seen?

Such as? Any of the random Chinese import sites I've seen selling them mark them up by $30-50 compared to the best eBay prices.

I've determined the model numbers for all the cards I had listed now (not sure how I missed a couple of them in the descriptions before). So you can search on eBay ("include description") or elsewhere for those numbers.

well I see Vudu has the HDX version available for PC download now, so how can I get this video? please if anyone knows how or can provide it to us we can make this project happen, someone was going to provide me with an how to video but he never came through, he said he does it through his PS3 somehow, but anyways any info on this would be a huge help to us and future cool projects.

I've yet to see a PC that plays back Netflix without a frame drop somewhere, and I'm guessing Vudu is the same. Not to say it's impossible but I don't trust computers as the source for video capturing.

Did the person who provided you with Vudu video before quit?