A lot of people should be interested by the Hi-Vision preservation of the Back To The Future trilogy.
I'd love to see how good/bad it looks.
poita said:
I have a Muse player, decoder and hidef capture system. Just don't have any discs. If anyone wants to send me discs, I'll happily capture them.
The hell!? You have the money to buy a Muse player with a decoder and you can't even afford a disc?
I mean, what's the point of buying an expensive outdated and rare Hi-Def system if you do not plan to buy any movie to enjoy it?
Anyway that's good to know, not a bunch of people have this kind of equipement, i'd love to see how Back To The Future looks on a Hi-Vision LD.
Thanks for the offer, if i ever have the chance to get one of these and if i am 100% sure you'll send it back to me... well why not :)
Where did you find this? It's awesome! Do you actually own the 16mm prints?
The quality of this ANH print looks quite amazing and judging by the ESB intro we are now sure that the French logos on the laserdiscs are the same as what people saw in the theaters back in the days. Even if it's a 16mm version i suppose it's the same source as the 35mm one.
Thank you for sharing it anyway. I don't know if you've payed attention to this detail but on the Greedo scene, after Han shot on Greedo the background sounds and voices seem to match what we can hear on the TV audio track you sent me some time ago i don't know if you remember.
If you do own the copy it would be nice if you could record the audio from the 16mm film. Maybe via the audio output on the projector.
rockin said:
ilovewaterslides said:
rockin said:
Is the laserdisc still being preserved in this thread or just the audio now?
What's the point of preserving the LD? I mean, colorwise it's not the best source available since it's kinda pink/blue tinted compared to the DVD.
Well, to be honest i'm not sure which version is the closest to the original theatrical colors.
Sorry, I must have got confused. Earlier back in the thread you posted some samples of the laserdisc video and I wrongly assumed you were doing a capture of the whole laserdisc.
I have the other laserdisc release, and the colour is also not anywhere near as good as the DVD/HDTV/Blu-ray versions.
No problem, i just wanted to show how the colors look on my LD but a full capture of it would be worthless for the moment since it's a French edition and obviously the logos and titles are in French.
By the way, which edition of the LD do you have? It would be interesting to compare these two. The master used is possibly not the same.
Where the hell did you find this!?
rockin said:
Is the laserdisc still being preserved in this thread or just the audio now?
What's the point of preserving the LD? I mean, colorwise it's not the best source available since it's kinda pink/blue tinted compared to the DVD.
Well, to be honest i'm not sure which version is the closest to the original theatrical colors.
I have the French laserdisc so i can give you the French PCM audio track if you are interested!
Cool project by the way :)
drngr said:
A guy on AVS once posted BTTF shots he claimed came from the DCP. Maybe just kidding around and posting WOWOW frames. I don't know how the compression/grain level on that compares.
http://www.avsforum.com/t/1338983/jurassic-park-trilogy/570#post_21051925
Damn, this dude seems to have an uncompressed source. Look all the details there is in the picture, it almost looks like a raw 35mm scan of the whole movie.
Yeah i love it too, that's why I keep using it :)
If you search on the internet you'll find a lot of explanations about why the french title was translated to "La Guerre Des Etoiles" instead of "Les Guerres De L'Etoile".
Nowadays, almost everybody says Star Wars. When people are talking about the trilogy or the whole saga, they say Star Wars and specially the younger people. Only some nostalgic people like me or maybe marvins keep saying La Guerre Des Etoiles.
Marvins is right, I remember about that too, when i was a kid we only used to say "LGDE" to talk about the first movie. For the Ep.V & Ep.VI we used to say "L'Empire Contre-Attaque" and "Le Retour Du Jedi".
Even if i was born much much later than marvins i remember seeing the trilogy before they started to destroy it in 97.
Congratulations marvins!!!
Tu pourras faire découvrir La Guerre Des Etoiles dans sa version d'origine à tes deux filles du coup! :-)
About the audio, you forgot to mention the laserdisc stereo track i've sent you ;) To me, it may be the best source we have for the moment.
Google Drive? It works pretty well. The only problem is the 5GB limit but i'm pretty sure your preservation will fit.
Just have to create a fake account with a name like "theoriginaltrilogy" or something like that then give the account name and password to the interested people so we can have access to the file easily.
Well i'd be really interested if you'll upload it elsewhere than MySpleen or Newsgroups.
dvdmike said:
drngr said:
Mike: interpolated?
I can grab the source for II and III but I is long gone it seems. They are 18Mbps MPEG-2 from 2006.
Canal + or wowow? yes please
Since he talked about a 18mbps bitrate, i suppose it's the WOWOW version.
I'd love to get these me too.
I don't think there is DNR on the HDnet versions. But they are badly compressed.
Alright, no problem.
WOWOW has an higher bitrate: http://www.avsforum.com/t/1285244/back-to-the-future-bd-vs-hdtv-comparison#post_19377701
This dude said: " Don't have the Canal+ cap to hand, but the WOWOW airing is the same "old" transfer and is a higher bitrate anyway."
dvdmike said:
The wowow would also be missing the dog
Sorry but i don't get that part. What do you mean by dog?
Does anybody know if there is a major difference between the WOWOW and Canal+ versions?
Like an higher bitrate or something...
If you are talking about the ruTracker ones they aren't very good in term of quality, both are from HDnet movies...
frank678 said:
Have you seen the Starkiller 1982 preservation?
I've searched everywhere for this version, i still can't find it. Is it the same master as the 1982 Rental VHS?
I think the second subs were made for the TV, the original theatrical release did not have subtitles and anyway, the first subtitles look a lot better! :)
dvdmike said:
Yes tis, would that not be easy just rip the blu and use the difference? sure it would not be perfect but it would be better
Better than having a big logo in the top right corner?
Yes obviously but that means compression and quality loss... I'd prefer to avoid this, does anyone know how to do it without using an editing software and loosing quality?
Harmy said:
Is it the same master as the BD only without the DNR? Cause it would be great if the logo could be removed.
Pretty much the same one yeah, without the weird color corrections, DNR and EE like the guy said before.
blowfish said:
What kind of a stupid name is despecilized?! and who wants to watch Star Wars with all those lame 70's efects. Thank the maker Lucas decided to update those terribly old movies so why bring them back!!!!
Haha, this has to be a joke.
We love those lame '70s effects dude that's how it works.
Thanks for your positive feedback ;)
Damn... that looks actually AMAZING!
And yes, we do have the Original Stereo Mix audio ;)