PowerDVD 7 (and PowerDVD 8 Ultra with some hack) were capable of.. I ordered a PowerDVD7 CD with key at ebay.. i try it.. its worth a try. Because I want to see the menus.. and not just be relying on ripping

Hope you can work something out MrBrown, it doesn't look like there is much software out there that can play HD-DVD, and any older software may have compatibility issues with newer versions of Windows

I do not use makemkv for ripping. I avoid that shady tool, as I do not trust it at all. I know I can rip stuff now, but I want to play it on my screen without needing to rip it ahead.

Pretty sure you can rip them with makemkv

Sadly all my HD-DVDs are all at another Place stored, I only have the 5 Disc Blade Runner HD-DVD Set at hand...

That’s great MrBrown

Yay! I recently received a HD-DVD&BluRay Kombo internal drive! Now I am able to check out HD-DVDs on my PC! Sadly no recent Software Player to be found that still supports them playing.

dumb Q but anyone begun tackling Babylon? I wouldn't change a thing, but I can understand how a few editors might want to tweak a tad here or there. Its divisive, but I loved it

You also have to take into account the content of the audio track, a relatively inactive track will compress to a greater ratio than a busier, more active one

the filesize difference feels right. If the DTS-MA is a 5.1 (or 6.1 or 7.1) mix, you can replicate that in a lossless FLAC and save on the space. Some FLAC decoders might struggle a bit representing the discrete channels though

Like Dolby Vision layer on top of the HDR10 base on discs. Kind of what I thought at another time. So because it has to max out the DTS core bitrate consistently there is often more than needed. Okay, now I get what stwd4nder2 meant.

The core is the older DCA codec (full bitrate) and the extra information is used to reconstruct the lossy core into a lossless audio track

Then the program fre:ac isn't messing up the conversion. Okay. Embedded DTS stream? I thought the DTS core was part of the same Master Audio stream. That when a device can't play MA, the codec simply tells it to cut off all the information above DTS core. Are you saying the core audio is redundant?

I think its basically that DTS-MA is very bloated

FLAC is much more efficient then DTS-HD, plus it doesn't have the embedded DTS stream which at full bitrate can take up half of that 1.9GB by itself

Is it right for a three hour stereo DTS-HD MA track to be reduced from 1.9 GB to 250 MB when converting to FLAC? Is it really still the same quality? It's an old movie, Judgement at Nuremberg (Kino). I never converted any of my movies to FLAC until yesterday. Seems odd that there would be so much filler in the track.

whats a good, short+sweet fast program to overlay/merge 2 (or more) vids together, like a melding, interwoven, combining both images into 1 (not append or stack!). I know Premiere can do it, but I have to setup a whole new project just to do that, or edit a timeline, its a bit much. Any other programs to do it, respect the colorspaces, not degrade the video quality, fast?

IMAX scaled version of Justice League, Q&A w/ Snyder https://comicbookmovie.com/justice-leagu...ms-a201162

I already added it to my watchlist captainsolo

If anyone’s interested I’m doing a worst discs of 2022 awards tonight: https://youtu.be/YcNq5AY_FFk

Oh wow

Rip Lance Reddick

There are reasons why these projects were donors only and I can only ask everyone to keep their promise to NOT share them. It's not about being generous, it's about being respectful to those who made these projects possible.

I got one on OT. He asked for a scan of The Lion King. I told him I didn't have it, but I'd let him know if anyone who got a copy for having donated to make the scan possible proves generous enough to make it public.

He's asking for 35mm scans

Did everyone get a DM from a guy called metahades?

If you've read the bluray.com forum, you've seen the bad news about Superman in the new 4K boxset, right? They removed the 5.1 track from the first film.

@Endocryne why wouldn't you want the audio from the blu-ray or DVD?

Also RIP Robert Blake

Jacked up Audio

FYI, Kathryn Bigelow in attendance, it was tonight, but its also 4/4-> https://drafthouse.com/nyc/event/terror-...-near-dark

the LD? because they jacked up the audio? Or because RockyIV was reframed?

So Rocky trilogy LD Rip when

off topic, this is pretty cool https://www.yedlin.net/ResDemo/ResDemoPt2.html (Pt1 is interesting but a little more general) demo of resolutions, how they work, cropping, zooming, IMAX vs 4k, very helpful

DaVinci Resolve does realtime voice isolation/music removal. It works awesome. https://youtu.be/EzpRM8lCwNI?t=1103

@PDB according to reviews the video is top notch. I haven't seen myself, so I can't comment on it.

@bendermac: How is the video? Hopefully we can fix the audio part.

Basic Instinct Theatrical Trailer (1992) [4K] [FTD-1070] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL-eEzcSU3w a bit red faded but interesting nevertheless

Rocky Series on 4K Blu-ray is screwed. Tons of audio issues. So be aware and possibly hold your purchase

yes, very sad

Tom Sizemore died

FYI https://www.reddit.com/r/fanedits/commen...uary_2023/

BLACKHAT HDR UHD -> https://twitter.com/ArrowFilmsVideo/stat...7259894785

anyone seem Random-Next around? Hasn't posted since Jan 2022 Sad

35mm screening of Manhunter, sold out unfortunately

I saw it in 3D the other night. DNR is evident but in all honestly, it was well managed. looked great on the big screen.

If Titanic is anything like Aliens or Terminator then it has been degrained and then regrained

depends on your definition of excessive but there is light grain.

I'll translate: "Does the 2D Titanic transfer suffer from excessive DNR" ?

Any clue with the 2D Transfer of titanic does suffers from DNR?

New 70mm struck-from-negative screenings of BOOGIE NIGHTS, PTA Q&A opening night -> https://www.americancinematheque.com/ser...s-in-70mm/

yes

Has anyone been able to rip 4K videos from Apple Music? I am trying to sync a surround sound mix from an old DVD to a remastered music video

NOo

Rip Lisa Loring the Original Wednesday

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Jaws-2-4K...ay/331448/ jaws 2 coming to 4k, no official date has been announced

@dvdmike yes and yes, DM me

Is it possible to rip from prime and netflix? Netflix Germany have the oceans films in 4k DV and prime has a concert I want to preserve

HEED THIS WARNING: Look at the clever auto-rules-filter a hacker set up on my Gmail w/out me knowing.. I was going crazy wondering where my missed stuff was?? (It was all in my 'Trash' folder!) <-note the word-triggers. I missed important emails from Amazon, my bank, an issue about my car, a free movie ticket that expired, Dr. appts... vicious! https://i.imgur.com/ypS90oR.jpg

@Endocryne zilch, but could be summer or fall release? They're not annoucning far in advance like they used to. Lets all promise to post the news here once we see it? I'm wondering whats the holdup of Friedkin's TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA 4k which transfer's been approved for awhile now, also whats up / MIAMI VICE 2006 4k?

Any news about Conan The Barbarian 4K?

RIP Owen Roizman

I know Amazon doesn't have it, thats to recompense me for the rental. I don't want a vudu gift card, if such a thing exists. Good luck to you sir.

@Bilbofett Amazon does not have the 4k transfer as of yet. According to justwatch its only on Vudu. Il'l eventually check it out in my travels.

@SpaceBlackKnight drop me a $6 Amazon gift card via email and I'll check it out and give you screenshots

Welcome to 2023!

Hopefully this year is a better year. Happy 2023

Happy 2023 guys!

Once Upon a Time in the West is 4k on Vudu. Anybody in the US wanna check out if it's been degrained like To Catch a Thief or solid like Waynes World?

Nice!

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=357926 Once Upon a time in the west Coming On 4K

is it better to time-stretch a previously interpolated video, or interpolate a previously time-stretched video?

Aside from the 5 sec of ROTJ, no

has anyone scanned a 70mm print before?

That will be over 10k

Hey Merry Christmas, if you got some (a lot of?) money, there is a Terminator collector from netherlands, selling a 70mm center print from T2 3D for 3500€, and then you can provide a 4k scan of it, using your christmas money! XD

Merry Christmas

Murray Christmas everyone!

Face/Off Arriving In 4K in 2023 https://twitter.com/klstudioclassic/stat...X7IcVsZnRg

Merry Christmas!

and Merry Xmas+Happy Holidays y'all!

@titanic @bronan @zoidberg another thing lending weight to the idea that the Conan transfer was new: Akiro's monologue at the end was different, and didn't match the text on screen, I noticed it immediately

Merry Christmas Fellas!

Merry Christmas!

Agreed. Merry Christmas to all of FanRestore

Merry Christmas to everyone at FanRestore!

no idea what alack means, but carry on

Indeed, alack

alack?

^ Alas, and alack

@zoidberg King Conan was a thing for awhile, I don't think Arnold was too old. Someone backed out though

Would love an old man Conan film to be made now

@Bilbofett Thank you for the detailed info.

yes @bronan. It was the theatrical cut as far as I can tell. I wish I'd checked to see if they fixed that missing music.. If I'd heard it, that would lend weight to the idea that its a newer transfer

original ending?

@titanic I did watch Conan, I'll post my thoughts here, if it doesn't allow all of it I'll make a new post and link u: the Conan the Barbarian presentation last night.. I could argue both ways for it being a new 4k transfer. It looked filmic, detailed, lots of grain.. but it could've been a nice 1080 print. It might've been 4k, it was hard to tell. I did not see any evidence of HDR or renewed colors (increased saturation) or anything of that nature, possibly Akiro's red clothing now seemed more vivid? I may have also seen evidence of upscaling, but I'm not sure. It was squiggly lines in the sky behind Thulsa Doom in the beginning right before they behead Conan's mom. The issue is, it was Cinemark and the manager told me not all theaters have a 4k projector (just a few). So it could've been 4k screened on a 2k. The Day-for-night running from the wolves shot seemed fix, except, the outer part of the cave still had bright(ish) light coming in?? Conan punched the Lama, but there was no extra scene w/ the princess at Thulsa's throne-lair. I do not remember where the missing audio (score) should've been so I wasn't prepared to listen for that. It could've been a 5.1 presentation but it sounded super front-heavy to me. I was 1 of just 2 people in the whole theater, lol, I sat in the wheelchair access (I normally don't). The "never been screened" bonus features were just deleted scenes we've all seen before. Disappointing. I knew that "never before SCREENED" (not SEEN, get it?) comment was going to be sneaky like that. Often when they do these theater presentations it means a new disc is on the way (but not always).

(Not my project, but needs help) Joe Alves (JAWS, CE3K, EFNY) doco Kickstarter: http://kck.st/3TSrk1W

No idea if the exorcist will include the theatrical Cut

Enter The Dragon And The Exorcist Coming To 4K as part of WB 100 anniversary

https://deadline.com/video/warner-bros-1...n-freeman/