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#1548999
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Bullet in the Head 喋血街頭 (1990) Preservation help
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Does anyone know and have any more releases of Bullet in the Head (laserdisc, vhs, beta, dvd).

I’ve got the HKL DVD, Scanbox, Megastar, Joy Sales, MeiAh VCD, festival cut VHS, Tai Seng VHS all converted and on MP4.

The 35MM (English dub) 4K scan is now a lost hope due to Hong Kong Rescue being crap with customer service and orders and is now off the map virtually.

If anyone else has any more full sources and would like to share, please let me know.

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#1531531
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The Shining - 35mm print opportunity (a WIP)
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See No Evil said:

Here is a rough preview encode of my new 5K scan of The Shining (1980)

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PLEASE NOTE: This is a quick preview only, encoded from the raw scans as compressed MP4 files provided by the scanner. Each reel has been given a quick levels & colour grading pass, and cropped/upscaled for 1920x1080p encoding. It obviously needs a lot more grading work. The final encode from the raw scans will be higher quality, and have far more time put in to it. This is just so everyone can get a very rough idea of the quality of the print.

This is now part of the below project;

https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/35mm-Movie-Scans-Compilation/id/101311/

Wow this looks fantastic seeing more picture than ever before! I’m looking forward to getting the finished product in 1080p and 4K to stream on my 4KTV

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#1330093
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JAWS 2 - Extended Integral Edition (Released)
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RidgeShark said:

Moiisty - I doubt the PAL releases had native PAL transfers for the deleted scenes. Most likely converted from the NTSC laserdisc masters to PAL - and I don’t trust Universal to do that properly. Though maybe someone with a PAL 30th Anniversary could check.

Also - my miniDV recording of an AMC broadcast of JAWS the Revenge is superior to the workprint collection DVD that’s made the rounds over the years. Just has one section that’s a little damaged on what I believe is theatrical version footage. Plus lots of bumpers and on-screen AMC ads that pop up on the bottom after a commercial break. But I believe all the extra footage is fine without obstruction. Also, comparing to the blu-ray - it’s very open matte for the most part - just missing a bit on the left side. Most shots of the shark are properly cropped for 4:3 and you don’t see machinery. Not sure how cropped-in the ending is. The tv-version only shot of the shark near the surface before it encounters Jake does show machinery so that can presumably be cropped accurately. So overall, one can easily crop out the AMC logo and have it remain fairly true to what was intended. Did a test on the AI software and it looks fairly nice upscaled. Crap movie, but its tempting me. Obviously I made the recording back in the early 2000s because I have some misplaced fondness for it, lol

It would be nice to see a higher quality version of the AMC airing of Jaws The Revenge being upscaled

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#1330092
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JAWS 2 - Extended Integral Edition (Released)
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RidgeShark said:

Wanted to show you guys a comparison with the AI Enlargement. First I want to temper expectations for what this tech can currently do - medium to closeup shots of people can benefit greatly - especially if the image takes up the full 480i image. Wide shots and 480i Letterboxed sources still benefit, but the neural network enlarger has less to work with.

Also - before feeding the video to the AI enlarger, I had already performed countless hours of work cleaning and selecting the correct frames from my recording of the sped-up TBS broadcast. Then I aligned the images of my recording and the VHStoDVDR copy, sewed the expanded left side and tried my best to merge any fine edge detail to the image of my recording. Then there’s several different ways to feed the footage to the AI enlarger and it took several run-throughs before I got the thing latching onto the available detail and then doing something with it. It’s definitely not something you can just feed any type of VHS footage into at any resolution. Then it comes out looking too unnaturally, artificially sharp and it requires more processing in Avisynth. So with that out of the way:

https://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/853

https://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/854

It looks really great with the second comparison