its like black friday all over again!
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mhm.. the DVDFab All-in-one is $199 at the moment.. and with the 30% discount (FAB30).. if it applies.. itshould be $140 .. and if the 25% discount (25GIFT) applies...
Regular BD is no problem... I only have one pc not able to play BD, because of licensing issues with the decryption keys of my Display... But even Region Coding doesn't stop me from buying and watching BD Movies...
I can Watch bluray not on all my PCs.. one, the PC is well enough, but the Monitor doesn't support the aacs protection, so the PC doesn't play the BD...
It's literally simpler to rip a Blu Ray than to watch it on a PC. 
(not talking UHD, but the time will come too)
(not talking UHD, but the time will come too)The point 8s,that due to the actions against piracy, a pirated copy often is more convenient, than the original discs... I don't think they add these awful anti piracy spots on pirated versions...
AFAIK the UHD BDs are not Region coded... I read something about that somewhere...
The whole UHD on p.c is a pain. I understand the need to curb piracy don't get me wrong. But the amount of hoops you have to go through to get a legit disc working is just stupid. It will all be fully broken in a matter of time!
If you use DeUHD you won't have to deal with those HW requirements; will depend entirely on if your system has the raw power to decode the video.
I have a Intel i7 dual core of the new family, with a Intel Iris Plus 650 chipset...
@TomArrow at least regarding the problem with the encryption modulesyou are tight, but I don't know regarding the "private memory" for the keys... But that also is quite possible.
I think the hardware specs are not because of speed solely but also because of encryption modules that older hardware doesn't have. I forgot the name, but there's a technology by Intel to have "private memory" for software to store keys in so that other software can't access them, which is used by PowerDVD for example (afaik)
... And the Drive also need some specific chipset... Or has to be a license information... But not every BD XL Rom is capable of playing uhd BD. Seems as if, at the moment capable BD Rom are only available in Japan.
And with playing uhd on PC it us not as easy. The hardware specs are quite... Harsh. It seems as if AMD are not capable of playing uhd BD at all. So you need a new Pentium with a special on chip graphic processor in.
@Jetrell: surely. But they are expensive, also. The newer Xbox One (it think it is the S revision) has an UHD capable BD drive, while the PS4 just got 4K,but no UHD capable drive, so it may run games in 4K,but can't play uhd BDs...
I believe one needs a dedicated UHD player though, not a regular Bluray player.
Afaik the HDCP version is independent of the content. It's just that all UHD discs use HDCP 2, not that UHD requires it. If you manage to convert HDCP version, you still need a display capable of showing the data. Although it's thinkable the Blu Ray player / software downscales automatically then
For me it is more interesting to watch my uhd discs... I have no hdcp 2.2 compatible TV... And at the moment no player... With the box, I could invest in playing ability... And save some more u til I get a TV...
They're doing both. All their releases marked "x265" are captures, the other ones are the real thing, probably using DeUHD
They seem to crack them on a disc by disc basis. Works on a wide variety of drives, means that you don't need all the inane HW/SW requirements mandated by Cyberlink/BDA
Ah... Damn...the BD Rom I was going to order was not capable of uhd video... Need to import something from Japan for that task...
There seems to exist a box that converts a hdcp 2.2 input to a hdcp 1.4 output...
So... Just bought a BDXL Drive... Have to try if my Little PC is capable of playing 4K Media... I think it won't be... But I give it a try...
For 35mm I have a film scanner at home. Originally meant for photography, but surely works for movie film as well. For 70mm you might need one that is meant for middle format (which is around 6x6); though 70mm is 6.5cm from what I read, so I am not 100% sure it would fit in.
What's the go to method for getting individual film cells (in this case 70MM) scanned?
Gonna update the forum in like 20 minutes, expect 403 error. Should be quicker this time
It's too early for Christmas films for me. I wait at least until the week leading up to Christmas.
About 20 Years ago, my mother witnessed Christmas Music in a Mall... in July. The Played a Song from a german Punk-Rock Band "Die Roten Rosen" the Song was "Weihnachtsmann vom Dach" ("Santa Clause from the attic")
A couple years back the seasonal music channel on my cable tv started the Xmas music at 3pm on Halloween! The horror...the horror...
I was going to say no but then I realized it's already Dec. Oi... So yeah, have at it!
LOL ... "Sodom And Gomorrah" (1962) directed by Robert Alfrich and starring Stewart Granger. Care to volunteer? 
Honestly never expected a hobbyist film-restoration group to double as a conservative Christian podium...
And speaking of TURDina ... alas poor DISNEY CORPORATION ... http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entert...77971.html ... "Sodom And Gomorrah" restoration anyone?
An interesting article on CDS Cinema Digital sound including some pictures of the equipment: http://www.in70mm.com/news/2017/cds/index.htm
Okay, I did a little writeup of my findings in the technical discussions forum. Hopefully it will lead to a method being established
If elastic aspect is indeed what poita is referring to, I'm unsure as to how that'd help.
I actually tried the same two processes: f_align which I saw in the Mad, Mad World restoration doc when they aligned the LD to a film print and running an image sequence in a macro through PS
@Synnove: I'd like a thread also since I have need of the same thing. Alignment of two very different pics.
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yes, but usually for official release, the distortion remain the same across the whole movie, so once you have found the right settings, it could work... let us know!
@Synnove: once I had the same problem, and solved it (with a LOT of work) using warpresize (http://avisynth.nl/index.php/SimpleResize) and reformer (http://www.avisynth.nl/users/vcmohan/Ref...ormer.html)
Well my own playing around with it didn't really work so I'm going to post on Doom 9. If I find a method that works I'll for sure make a thread documenting.
Oooo ... interesting. Maybe Synnove would make a new thread to document the info, developements, and testing (with lots of pictures)? Possibly under "Requests, proposals, help" for the technique? Or elsewhere for the actual project?
Possibly under "Requests, proposals, help" for the technique? Or elsewhere for the actual project?Wow that's a great idea! Inspired me to do some searching on Doom 9. Found this: http://forum.doom9.org/archive/index.php/t-154739.html
Wild guess, but how about cleverly manipulating MVTools? They have frame interpolation. It's meant for time-based interpolation, but perhaps you could trick it into doing it for two differently warped frames and somehow morph one into the other.
It might be worth trying a couple of still frames to see if the distortion is consistent throughout the film. Good luck!
I know the proper process for combining the information from the two transfers to replace the missing blacks or highlights, but getting the frames aligned is the difficult part.
It's Star Trek The Motion Picture; I'm using the HDTV cap and the Blu-Ray. The blu has many instances of clipped highlights and crushed blacks to the point where the information is completely gone. Unfortunately they are 2 diff scans so the frame geometry is different.
@ Synnove "crushed blacks/blown highlights" -- this may occur on one of the R-G-B separations and might be fixable using adjusted values from a non-crushed/blown separation.
@Synnove that sounds like a complicated undertaking. No idea how to do it personally but good luck
I've tried using f_align in nuke and align layers in photoshop but they only do linear transforms; the geometry differences in the scans are non linear. I want to align them to restore the detail in the crushed blacks to the clearer blu transfer.
Does anyone have a method for aligning two separate filmscans? I've two HD sources (one HDTV that has a LOT of compression and dirt), one that's BLU but crushed blacks/blown highlights. They are two diff scans so the geometry is slightly different.
@Koopa Luath "I'm additionally considering removing [fill in the blank]'s name ...": -- :-O Slippery slope that (even for a fan-edit). Just ask GL.
Once HBO and Fox cut ties with you, and an entire film starring you is shelved....yep
Although not in the same league as Weinstein, what Louie CK did is still quite bad, and I don't see his career recovering from it.
I don't see Affleck or Louie CK's escapades as even in the same league as Weinstien or Spacey.