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#656674
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Info: Recommended Editions of Disney Animated (and Partially Animated) Features
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Doctor M said:

...and the final product isn't always representative of what is released in other countries.  Jungle Book is the same era and uses xerography like Sword in the Stone.  I don't see the U.S. release looking much better than SitS does.


As far as the Little Mermaid audio: The first LD release of LM has Dolby surround (2 channel prologic), which would be based on the ORIGINAL Dolby theatrical mix.  IIRC, in theaters it was a sort of analog equivalent to DD 5.1.  This disc is pan and scan.

The 1998 LD contains the 5.1 digitally remaster soundtrack from the 1997 release as well as a mono and Dolby surround track.  I'm not sure if the latter two are downmixes of the '97 mix or from the '89 mix.

The first DVD is pretty much identical to the 1998 LD.  It is non-animorphic letterboxed and contains the 5.1 digitally remastered track.

Imdb claims there was 70mm 6-track original release mix. I couldn't prove it, but it's possible.

I couldn't tell you if there is much difference between the '89 and '97 mix.  It's most likely that they just reproduced the Dolby analog mix as a Digital mix because theaters were changing over.

This would be unlike the DEHT mixes where they assume you only have TV speakers and are half deaf.

With a little google-fu

 

Little Mermaid, The Spherical (Super 1.85:1) Nov 15 (USA) 6-Track Dolby Stereo Walt Disney

 

OAR blow-up. First spherically photographed Disney animated film to be blown-up to 70mm.

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#656455
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The Crow - Unrated DVDm Cut (* unfinished project *)
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This is something I was working on a few years ago and never finished due to a PC death.

The aim:


Take the US theatrical version cut by the MPAA add back in the violence <span style=“font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.2em;”>in the uncut gun battle in the club and the original rebirth scenes.</span>


Sources: UK blu-ray deleted scenes and a few web sourced shots

US Blu-ray (slightly DNR’d and reframed but it will do)


Video 1080p - Undecided if I should take the colour out like James O’Barr wanted, it would match the video better also.

Deleted scenes upscaled no DNR to take away rough edges they are as I found them with a tiny bit of clean up.


Audio - Stereo only, sorry guys but the deleted scenes leave me with little option as they are slightly rough and remixing them was a nightmare as it was

What I will not be adding - The skull cowboy scenes as the audio was never added as ADR it would not work at all.


Target - Hopefully a BD25 with the commentary tracks added


Anyone have any comments on the video colour levels I will be happy to hear them


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy7HzpRQUiM

The original gun battle cut I did and this was bleach bypassed but ended up too dark I think, this was in 2011

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#656365
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The Great Escape - Non DNR/Teal and Orange Preservation (* unfinished project *)
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I had to upload it I had planned to burn it and someone was going to upload it for me.

I still have the 16gb file on hand tho but let us see if people actually like the work first and then I can try and make the BD again (it kept failing) and add all the extras I had planned.

Because if people think it looks like crap then I waste a week uploading 25gb 

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#656302
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The Great Escape - Non DNR/Teal and Orange Preservation (* unfinished project *)
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Mazaliche said:

Hello, again!

   Apparently, there is a "50th Anniversary Restoration" done at high resolution. Does anyone know if that's the one used for the BD? The Blu-ray having been released months after the screening would seem to indicate so, but studios have been known to do illogical things in the past. And a 4k of the original camera negative should look better than what the BD reviewers seem to indicate.

http://silverscreenoasis.com/oasis3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4260&start=360

The Great Escape (1963) – World Premiere of 50th Anniversary Restoration
(...) The Great Escape was restored by Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios at Deluxe Digital Media using a 4K scan of the original camera negative.

 

And about the seeding: perhaps you're not connectable ( like me ), which means about only half the people can actually connect to you. But if you hang on in there, a connectable member will show up and act like a bridge between you and the rest.

The 4k master is noted as being not on the disc from what people who saw it said.

 

The seeding, none of that makes any sense to me sorry.

I am a total novice at torrenting