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!

I rozumje dwa procent!

Tylko jeden procent...

Andrea, you speak Polish too?

Hast du eine frosche?

Sorry guys, but who does NOT speak AT LEAST the main five european languages nowadays? I speak quite well in English (I hope so!), je parle Francaise comsi comsa, Verstehen minimal Deutsch, entiendo un poco de Español, parlo perfettamente Italiano (ovviamente), i ja też mówić po polsku (tylko jeden lub dwa procent)

Anyway the Arrow release of The Thing should be pretty sweet, especially if they do a Limited Edition

That is most certainly not what I meant.

So it smells left?

Something doesn't smell right.

Guys let's keep this off topic

We have an off topic section now?

Off topic really earning its keep now.

@MrBrown Sounds more like I should campaign for him to adopt me instead.

@taas007 Your child would speak 5 different european languages, if it would be a [spoRv] release... and it would have a better encode.. so.. better looks...

spoRv should do everything! Well..... not, you know, like EVERYTHING. I would like my first child to be mine but you know.. everything else is fine.

We can only hope so. Maybe without the supposed sharpening. Perhaps we should send spoRv to supervise the grading?

i bet same master as shout but maybe better encoding?

Arrow are releasing John Carpenter's The Thing later this year

This must be what happens when you master HDR correctly.

This is why 4K is a bad idea! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuVT3rK2O3c

Simple, but nice, article about Criterion company: http://oi66.tinypic.com/jtt0fq.jpg http://oi67.tinypic.com/24bneoo.jpg

Omg, Becky, the new Star Wars has a title. *sir begins to mix. A lot.*

spoRv: Which LD? LDDB.com Link?

Just checked, it's 1.33:1 with a little bit more image on bottom, but lose a lot on the sides. Audio is harsh due to disc rot; if I would find another copy, I'll capture audio again.

Yeah I'm pretty sure it doesn't beat the German VCL DVD that is also 1.66:1 with the actual theatrical colour timing

spoRv wasn't that Terminator laserdisc of yours open matte? I have to check it out. By the way, the audio skips sometimes... anytime you fancy ripping it again, Ill be here

That VHS rip is indeed 1.66:1, very bad quality and with hungarian hardsub... useless

IIRC In the VHS you could see the back of the metal ram they used to smash the windscreen behind Arnie's back

Most/all shots with animatronics are open matte. Animation effects are also full-frame, even though they're composited over hard-matted live action. I know this because I saw a trailer projected in 1.33

Opticals FX yes, they are hard matted. Some of the animatronic stuff is full frame though, don't know why

I don't think that FX shots were filmed open matte tbh. They generally use Vistavision for SFX which results as 1.66:1 hard matting once again. I know that some lightnings and other stuff kinda go off frame though.

Has someone the french DVD or BD for Timeline (2003)? If so, please PM me, thanks!

F/X shots were shot open matte

Terminator was actually hard matted to 1.66:1 so you're not going to get a ton of extra picture information.

AFAIK there is none 1.33:1 Open Matted Terminator DVD at all... Too bad companies seem to ignore such oddities from the past, nowadays.

I think most terminator vhs releases were open matte

Yes, it seems a VHS rip, around 1.5GB

If it is the same one I recently saw, than it is not a DVD rip, more like a bad worn out VHS...

Is this a DVDrip spoRv?

It came to my attention an open matte Terminator rip... it's hungarian with hardcoded subs, but if there are no available version elsewhere, could still be of some vaule, I think... opinions?

Incidentally the twilight time 30th anniversary reissue had DTS-HD 2.0 and a high video bitrate but there were pretty bad artifacts throughout

The steelbook was released December but sold out in minutes! 3 month wait for the standard release

Fright Night from eureka is avalible March 27th, i like how they also supply it with pcm 2.0

Has anyone got hold of the latest release of Fright Night from eureka! In the UK? Apparently it's the best encode yet

and online.. there are posters with Bush as "President Evil", Obama as "President Evil"...

http://www.schnittberichte.com/news.php?ID=449 there's also a cover shot on that page..

The Movie "The Tripper" got in Germany the title "President Evil"...

"More menacing than Terminator... more dangerous than Predator... more hairier than Chewbacca.. PRESIDENT EVIL... he will trump over us all!"

THAT'S IT! They're moving 3D 4K production to Leela's sewer-mutant 31st-century Earth facility ... with the same specs of our non-3D 4K TVs!

All this will lead to is ridiculously high prices for older 3D hardware. I can't imagine 3D adds much to the manufacturing cost. Ditching it is as much a dick move as not making it part of the 4K format specs.

I like the sound of steak-vision

Yes. It's being replaced by a mysterious technology called ‎ƐD. It stands for Ɛ dimensional viewing. I wonder what it could be.... steak perhaps? Are we getting steak-vision??

3D dead? /me cries

Never understood the appeal of 3D on a flatscreen. It's got to be huuuge!

@MrBrown nothing in particular, just curious