Ugh, temperature just hit 43.5C (110F) here.

How much would you pay for an ebook with 12000 laserdisc reviews? And for an "old style" (read: printed) book?

Guys, I miss a website with screenshot comparisons between laserdisc (and even VHS, CED, VHD) Vs digital video formats... and you?

I didn't realize that John McTiernan directed a video game ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2On9gv3C_iI

A bit pricey too

There's a 35mm print of John Carpenter's Halloween on ebay. A bit red though

The USA.

We have a west coast here, too...

The west coast of where?

Anyone on the west coast having problems with Youtube today? Some sort of outage going on...

Ah good old censors keeping us safe and unspoiled. As James Ferman said about the Texas Chainsaw Massacre: "It's alright for middle class cineastes to see this film, but what would happen if a factory worker in Manchester happened to see it?"

but The company remastered it for the official release.. I assume they just put some DNR on the US BD release.. but still the efford getting it unbanned and released at least qualifies it to be bought, for me.

Well.. there were severall german languaged DVD release in Austria.. but none official BD release.. only a bootleg.. so.. yeah... everyone wanting the movie already got it...

But I assume everyone already had a copy in Germany

The old movie is no longer banned in GErmany.. mid 2016 the ban was lifted, october 2016 it also was stated not to be harmful for youth anymore.. and janmuary 11th it got the Free for 16 and above FSK rating...

Lol that's pretty cool too

ah.. there is also a not limited unrated japanese release: https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B01NAW4AGQ/

also there will be a limited japanese Version for the original The Evil Dead ( https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B01MYB4NPX/ ), with the same display as the german ( http://www.ebay.de/itm/132077391698 ) upcoming limited release:

They do go out of their way...but then charge you for it like you said

on the other hand: japanese releases often are quite the top notch releases... either due bitrate, or audio options other countries just don't seem to get...

I know that problem...

Yeah I hear you, I don't have the room for that stuff

but.. it's from japan.. so the movie itself would be about 40-50 bucks alone...

I would be happy with a non so displayed, but cheaper unrated BD release.

Ok that Evil Dead display is several kinds of awesome

Looks like we're finally getting House on Blu-Ray, end of March. In fact, we're getting the whole quadrilogy

Seems as if japan is getting the unrated "The Evil Dead" (remake) Version on limited Blu: https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B01N7V3QTF/

I do have cinema DTS for Fight The Future X-Files movie as well.

LD does look much better

Made a quick comparison between X-Files movie DTS LD and DVD and, apart LD has a bit more red, the color grading seems the same... at the contrary, Alien Resurrection on DTS LD has a very different color grading - still not sure if its master used a silver retention processed print... but colors are so much better! Take a look at the comparison here: https://vimeo.com/202423916

Wow... Seems very strange in 4:3 (p&s I think...)

Mhmmm the "good, the bad and the ugly" US LaserDisc from 1983...

Thanks for the hint, Valeyard!

OMG I was wrong! It turns out you CAN still use WindowsXP AND get security updates: https://betanews.com/2014/05/26/how-to-c...ntil-2019/ I hope those of you *cough* ANDREA *cough* have tweaked your registry accordingly!

I think they used something similar to construct the 3D CG models in Tron. Back when computers were so expensive only the 5 richest kings of Europe owned them!

I always thought it looked like a vector based monitor setup. Nice. You can still get that type of physical interface, I use a similar setup for grading.

Great find, spoRv!

I wonder if it's possible to find out a similar controller to be uses with Windows: https://youtu.be/yMeSw00n3Ac?t=311

I swear blind I saw the lawyer get swallowed whole by the T-Rex in Jurassic Park at the cinema

I can't trust my memory either, I swear I saw an earlier Special Edition teaser which had no footage, which made no mention of the changes, and which used the same " One Last Time" tag line as the VHS releases. I remember being confused if it was referring to the video release or a theatrical re-release. I remember seeing the SE trailer before ID4 and finally understanding. I even swear I saw the earlier teaser around Christmas 1995, possibly before Jumanji. Only problem - the trailer does not exist. Usenet proves there was no trailer for the SEs until spring 1996, and it's the first version of the SE trailer we know

And he's a smart guy

I have to remind him every time it comes up. He also confuses the two movies and is never sure which he saw in the theater at a certain theater. If it was summer '64 I have no idea if it was a later-run Pink Panther or early in the run of A Shot in the Dark, he thinks the latter

Oh, and this is not an issue of unreliable childhood memory, because my dad was 24 when SW came out.

There is also debate among my father and aunt over whether my father actually saw Star Wars in the theater, my aunt recalled the exact theater where they saw it, but my dad insists he did not see it until it came to HBO

Those two things are incongruous, if he saw it in HBO it would have been uncut, he must have seen it on network TV

And also said he saw it on HBO

We were watching Fast Times at Ridgemont High once, my dad (who is not a prude or anything) was surprised to see Phoebe Cates' bare breasts, he had sworn it always cut away

But this is exactly why I am such a skeptic about supposed deleted scenes making it into a released version

Though he didn't have other people backing him up like with this

I had to prove to my father that Fabian and Shelly Fabares were never Mouseketeers once, he was shocked to find out because he had sworn they were

Doubtful anyone would want to sell that. The fella probably got buried with it.

PDB, I can CLEARLY remember renting "The Phantom Menace" on VHS and in it, there was no character named Jar-Jar Binks. I've spent the last five years or so hunting down that VHS with zero luck.

We have talked a lot before about people remembering non-existent scenes in movies but never remembering movies that never existed: http://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech...nk-it-does

TSmuxer is quick. I've never had problems with BD compliance. Can't eac3to mux to MKV?

Well, I used the same drive for TSmuxer as well, but it was 14x faster - or, MVKtoolnixGUI 14x slower, pick your poison! If only I could be sure its output is 100% BD compliant, I'd use it exclusively!

I'll try to cap it in the next few days

Watched a little this morning getting ready for work

I have it on my DVR, Servo

MKVtoolnix can be slow, especially if reading/writing the same drive

Wasn't it on this morning?

Hey PDB, did you get Highlander theatrical?

For a 3m clip, x264 15mbps + ac3 192kbps: MKVtoolnixGUi 12m49s, TSmuxeR 51s! ts file about 3% bigger than mkv

Usually I use TSmuxeR to mux tests to .ts, but today I used MKVtoolnixGUI v9.6,0... is it normal it's ten to twenty times SLOWER than TSmuxeR?!?

Well, you are in good company... here in Italy, too, HD bitrate for FTA is quite low (around 5mbps) that is adequate for low motion films, but not for high action ones... and forget about grain!!!

I can already image you clicking through channels "HD? Mate, this load of **** isn't even proper SD!" (which is what really pisses me off. they advertise HD and UHD while broadcasting potato)

I dunno, we get some pretty crunched HD channels in the UK

Sweet Cthulhu! Must be a typo.

5mbps, that doesn't seem like very good video quality for HDTV.

The second half of the first one the censored version?

Just recorded Kill Bill Vol.2 open matte from HDTV. 1080i 5 mbps and 25 fps with logos and some scenes hard subbed. Also have second half of the first movie. Just saying in case anyone is interested.

How else would you do it to get it in 1080? It bothers me when some digital stuff only exists downconverted to 720

You think ActionMax, ThrillerMax, 5StarMax, etc. are copy never too?

Well the Cinemax channels are running it

I can do streams for other channels just not those

No not for HBO or Cinemax. Both are set copy never

you can capture the stream without loss?

I'll try to get a copy of it also

I need to first see if I need an HDCP stripper

Though I have no idea how Cinemax handles logos, it may still be useful to capture to cover up logos, since Encore didn't put logos on perpetually...

The opening credits then run fine but I am afraid that some time during the next 2 hours will be more stuttering

My recording will probably stutter either randomly or regularly on playback, I know the Fox logo is stuttering

and it pops up on the various channels next month

On Tuesday it's on ThrillerMax

Is it on anytime soon servo

Just asking because of a Highlander theatrical cut project that's being discussed. I have an old Encore HD airing on my DVR but that DVR is dying

hey does anyone here have the means to record/capture Cinemax in HD

@MrBrown that's your weekend viewing sorted!

Aw, John Hurt died. I liked him.

Yeah, got 36 German LaserDiscs, and 1 US LaserDisc at eBay... nothing real special, but some cool stuff. i.e.: Raiders of the lost Ark with German Title card "Jäger des verlorenen Schatzes"...

Changing topic: connection between Star Wars and Matrix: http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-11-1...the-clones

But, seriously, adding all these audio tracks helped my projects to be spread over the net, and not only on the English based countries... more languages available, more people that enjoy my projects!

If the BD-50 would cost a penny, and my upload speed would be 10x faster, I think I'll include more languages as well!

I speak English men jag är uppvuxen i Sverige. Anyone else who speaks Swedish?

But your language skills explain, why you get the multilingual releases that great done, spoRv

German and English, but I have no problems to order DVDs and BDs on French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and so Websites, even if they have no English language option...

I only speak English, French and a tad of Spanish to be honest.

I just happened to recognize it ... my grandmother was Polish.

I have no idea, LOL.

Koniec!