singhcr

I would like to have the PCM audio from the Robocop Criterion LD if anyone is working on that.

Thanks!

The Aluminum Falcon said:

singhcr said:

I just won a 007 LD lot that has TLD, OHMSS, and Octopussy with digital sound. The others have analog sound but I'll see how they compare. I plan on synching these with the BD video. I'll share them if I am successful.

Nice news. I'd actually suggest syncing OHMSS with the SE DVD rather than the BD. For all its faults (EE, bad compression, lack of definition, and missing lines), it generally plays out better- more faithful to the original release- than the contrast blown BD, which tried some color correction from the UE DVD master but still looks quite off from the original.

Thanks for the info, but I'm sticking with the BD as that's all I have.

Any suggestions as to how to sync this? I was planning on taking the BD's 2.0 audio and using that as a guide for the LD capture. I've tried doing this with The Killer and A Better Tomorrow but I find that the audio goes progressively out of sync. I sent that off to Commodore Scmindlapp and he got it synced but I don't know how you can do that without chopping up the audio into little segments and hearing the edits as you view the movie. The Killer's LD track doesn't do this so I'm a bit lost here.

The Aluminum Falcon said:

singhcr said:

I just won a 007 LD lot that has TLD, OHMSS, and Octopussy with digital sound. The others have analog sound but I'll see how they compare. I plan on synching these with the BD video. I'll share them if I am successful.

Nice news. I'd actually suggest syncing OHMSS with the SE DVD rather than the BD. For all its faults (EE, bad compression, lack of definition, and missing lines), it generally plays out better- more faithful to the original release- than the contrast blown BD, which tried some color correction from the UE DVD master but still looks quite off from the original.

That's fantastic news! Thank you once again for all of your hard work. I can't wait to watch this!

Will you be providing links to your BD covers as well?

Matt_Stevens said:

If memory serves, Anchor Bay cleaned the subs up for their DVD releases, but it's been a long time so I am not sure. 

Correct. ABT 1 and 2 have good subs, original audio and nice anamorphic video from Anchor Bay (R1).

I just won a 007 LD lot that has TLD, OHMSS, and Octopussy with digital sound. The others have analog sound but I'll see how they compare. I plan on synching these with the BD video. I'll share them if I am successful.

This sounds awesome! Thanks for all of your hard work!

Crap.  I went to the Paramount Japan site and it said that A Better Tomorrow I was from a fresh film scan. Either they are lying or they think a 1080p BD from a 4k scan is the same thing as an upscaled DVD :(

Well, at least one of the Woo movies is in HD so that's at least something to celebrate....

Sorry about that, I'm excited too.

If The Killer, ABT, etc are as good as the Japanese Hard Boiled BD is, I will die a happy man... AFTER I've seen the BD's, of course. :)

I don't think the captures I got from PowerDVD do the film justice, but the Japanese BD is a *huge* improvement over the US BD. I have not seen the movie yet on my TV but just took screens of it to show everyone.

http://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=7346698&postcount=26

http://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=7346965&postcount=27

I just saw this a few days ago and it's a big improvement over the R1 DVD in terms of picture and sound quality. The cuts are seamless and the final shootout in the factory has a lot more shooting and gore and scenes that were completely removed from the R-rated US cut. I have only seen the movie once on DVD since I saw this so my memory of the movie is not spectacular but there are a number of gore shots added back into this movie throughout the film that were cut.

Overall, you will not be disappointed! I want to say thanks to Commodore Schmidlapp for all of the hard work! 

MrBrown,

Please let us know what you think of The Japanese Killer BD. The Hard Boiled disc is definately not an upscale and although the website says "A Better Tomorrow" is HD, I can't find anything that confirms that.

I would pay the high prices for these discs if only I could find out what they look like ahead of time.

I  have a copy of the PCM LD track and it is in sync with the remastered 2013  Terminator release. In fact, I just watched it today. Let me know if you want a copy.

I used the ASIO feature on my sound card (bypasses the Windows Sound Mixer that greatly reduces recording quality) to record a bit-for-bit accurate copy of ABT (JPN LD) and The Killer (US Criterion LD) from the digital coaxial output of my Pioneer CLD-D703 LD player and I'm amazed at how good the mono tracks sound.

I'm willing to provide the audio tracks if someone would be kind enough to return corrected copies to me so they are synced to a copy of the movie that I could buy. I am having a very hard time trying to sync the ABT audio to a R1 Anchor Bay DVD that I own as the audio seems to go progressively out of sync, even before the LD disc change so I'm confused as to why this is happening.

If anyone would like these files, please let me know.