Interesting... I wonder if it makes a decent color regrade source given it looks to be in pretty good condition–possibly resultant from it being an IB Tech print.
I have it installed on my shield TV but no way of capturing that I know of? I have a free rental or 2 and they have some 4k movies not available anywhere else
Good question, I hadn't heard of UltraFlix until you mentioned it today, Mike. Surely there must be a way to intercept the stream. https://play.google.com/store/apps/detai...x&hl=en_GB Is there any way of installing this on maybe an NVIDEO Shield and ripping it that way?
Dont forget all the times you end up selling something on ebay for 10% of the original price because nobody bids on it. It's a rollercoaster of emotions
I know what you mean. I used to be quite big in the Blu-ray SteelBook game a few years ago (did you ever go on SteelBookHunterz?) and the prices were gougy at the time already. I ended up selling a few of my rare copies but never to the extortionate prices you see online.
Some people on Ebay are charging over 100 dollars for the Commando steelbook. I'm getting tired of the price gouging of DVDs and Blu-Rays. Like anybody sane is going to pay that amount
Found out that the 2002 horror film Below has been released in Russia on BD with lossless audio. The Echo Bridge BD was lossy 2.0 and this is full fat DTS-MA 5.1.
when searching the russian full screen Terminator 2 DVD (Its OOP) I stumbled upon some shops, but as the DVD being OOP, and not avaible, I dug not deeper into the shops.
Can now PM. Have sent one. Any Terminator fans may want to check out a game I am working on called Tech-Com: 2029... I think I'll stick around here, the dedication is great!
Stamper, I can't get on OT, the activation email won't send. Someone PM'd me here with the Chace mix but I think that's NOT the one I need. I am muxed it and its out of sync, so I think I need the one you described on OT... but I can't log on. It's a comedy...
Which of these movies would you donate to see a 35mm preservation scan?: https://strawpoll.com/c35bzdx5 ; ALSO FYI, I apologize for the mild spam influx of posts from me advertising it.
that's not a press release though. it's just a listing that a member of Blu-ray.com has submitted (i also do them from time to time). they list what the OAR is and what the aspect ratio is on the disc. The previous release has exactly the same ratio detail but does not contain two different transfers of the film https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Full-Meta...ray/16672/
Yeah... all this is totally not worth splitting hairs over. I care about big differences, usually the result of upstream mastering choices. I consider even the differences between lossless vs. lossy 192 kbps AC-3 compression menial in comparison.
And after all, the whole point of dithering is that at 16 bit you get into the range where quantization errors become audible. The rule wouldn't make much sense otherwise
Or alternatively, rendering out the main audio parts without dithering (muting the patches etc or having them on a muted track) and then exporting the patches etc with dithering, and then just summing both files. though that seems a bit overly cumbersome, heh
Well, rules should be evaluated based on the context. I think dithering does make sense, as the dithering noise sounds better than quantization errors, however when you have a bit-perfect LD PCM track, then dithering is already applied to that, so you end up getting maybe double the amount of dithering and thus also more dithering noise in total. would make more sense accepting some quantization errors in the small patches
Probably both - I don't think I've ever A/Bed a truncated vs. dithered output. I suppose I do it because it's audio 101 that you should always dither when going to 16. It's not a rule I feel especially inclined to break when all this amounts to placebo-level differences.
I would assume - perhaps wrongly, I'm not an expert - that quantization errors shouldn't ever end up being louder than dithering noise, so if dithering noise is inaudible, so should quantization errors from rounding be.
Hmmm fair enough. Though one could argue about whether small patches justify dithering the entire audio file. To clarify, are you saying that you can't hear dithering noise or that you can't distinguish a dithered audio export from an undithered one at all? If the latter, why even bother dithering?
I use headphones for everything too. And when syncing, I always end up patching in bits from another source and that inevitably involves volume-matching - so a dither is necessary.
In any case I think dithering an LD PCM doesn't make any sense. Even if it gets internally processed at 32 bit, a mere syncing will not change the values, so they should just end up getting rounded to the original raw values when outputing at 16 bit again.
since under normal listening conditions even the background noise of your room will likely be louder than the dithering noise, depending on how high the volume is
I used to use MBIT+ religiously for everything until I realised it makes no audible difference to me. Now I just use a simple TPDF dither. Go with what sounds best to you.
I thought it was very noticable when I did some experiments, though I did set the dithering strength to high (using Izotope MBIT+ dither). Different noise shaping resulted in a different sound as well.
Unless you have super hearing, you're unlikely to ever notice the difference. I certainly can't and as I've probably shown I'm rather pedantic about these things.
@Moshrom Curious, why do you suggest dithering to 16bit instead of 24bit? At 16 bit, dithering audibly changes the sound, at least in quiet places, and depending on the dithering settings it ends up sounding different. It would make more sense for preservation work to dither to 24bit, since it will be practically inaudible. Or am I making a mistake?