Feallan is right, with discord or IRC most of the conversation would just move to a chat and kill the forum with its useful information. I'd settle for a system that allows admin or moderators to send email alerts in case something big happens and many members wouldn't know what's going on. I hear mailchimp and similar services can be useful and are free within limits that are compatible with the number of members here and the frequency of such events.

I'm not sure about Discord, I would rather not shift any discussion from the forum, since we have the shoutbox. Maybe some announcement only channel, but then it would require people to have an account there and bookmark it. I think I'll look into some mass mailing solution (can't use the forum feature, if forum is down)

Depending on the purpose discord is superior to irc... IRC is just a live text chat, while discord can be used for announcements, why not everyone has to catch right at the moment...

Thanks for everyone's patience, BTW

I'd prefer IRC over discord, but yeah having some kind of off-site comms could be very helpful if something bad happens

Quite a few on here have accounts on OT or the SW forums, but agree it may be best to have a backup way of contacting members. Glad that fanrestore is back!

I hear people use discord but I'm mentally too old for these things. I'll make myself a Fanrestore addressbook ;D

It's not going to for the foreseeable future, but even in that case something would definitely be set up, at the very least a way to exchange e-mails between members. But yeah, doing it yourself wouldn't hurt too

No problem, glad everything is back. Which reminds me that I probably wouldn't know how to keep in touch with 99% of you if the forum disappeared

Also, they restored an earlier backup of the DB, I had to do it again with the correct one, so a couple shouts and a 1-post thread about a shoutbox issue (it should be fixed now, Hitcher) are missing. Sorry guys, and thanks to Evit for noticing something was wrong

Okay, everything should be up and running. My hosting provider had some sort of a malfunction on Friday evening, and strangely, even though the helpdesk should work 24/7, they were only able to fix it on Monday morning... Please let me know if anything is missing/not working on the forum

Aphasia is a nasty thing

It does seem he's in a bad way unfortunately, very sad to hear

Seem Bruce Willis is retiring for serious medical reasons. The rumors of him doing all those crap films to provide for his family seem to be true.

Thanks

Thanks

Not 100% the same, and Moshrom covers the slight differences in his post

Is the AC3 Mono the exact same track on the Blu/UHD/DVD?

Thanks for the info nirbateman.

GF1 has some analog noise and low volume, while GF2 is pretty clean and clear with low volume, a pretty easy fix, so no LD syncing is necessary IMO, both films' LD come from the same dupey master, and much detail isn't there at all, probably due to NR (They are pretty clean sounding)

Unsure about Godfather II...

Moshrom has a new post on Blah Ray about The Godfather audio. Seems the LDs are unimpressive.

They're not in sync, the new Paramount logo is gone, and so are the restoration credits. I do however find that the Bluray mono sounds better than the LD, less dupey, even after doing some cleanup work, which Paramount didn't seem to do

Are the UHD Godfather in sync with the old Blu-ray discs? Cos I wanna know if we must resync or not the LD rips.

Don't suppose anyone has the Region 1 DVD of Executive Decision they could rip? The uncut version?

More like colour fixes, been saying since harris touched it that it was wrong

German review of The Godfather UHD set - aspect ratio restored to 1:85:1 and also color changes https://blu-ray-rezensionen.net/der-pate-4k-uhd/

Made me laugh

Not another one

Sad

F

RIP to this great director. I'll miss you.

RIP Ivan Reitman

Wow, that's its second revival.

Good news everyone! https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-...235090020/

Oh damn I only just watched ST:TMP last weekend, blown away by how beautiful it looked.

Crap. Sad to he him gone. He was a genius

RIP Doug Trumbull

You need to force refresh by using Ctrl + F5

I can confirm its there

*not

I am mot even seeing the updated logo, neither on my phone nor desktop. I tried changing the theme and it's still the old one

#2 was also the best to me greater but now that this one is in place I start to really like it

Yeah I only found out about ot when it was already over. Would be nice if the few people's vote that commented afterwards (me included) would had been considered as well. As in that case #2 would had won instead of #7

New logo looks great!

I think there wasn't enough time to vote, less than a week only while I'm sure most of us simply just don't have the free time to check every day...

That is a sad ratio to be honest, it is just a click...

Wow, really! How many active users do we normally get over a week?

Over 3000 members and only 35 votes, all it takes is one click or tap and your done. https://fanrestore.com/thread-4634.html

Crazy how that article spins it as a positive. Is there anyone not in China's pocket nowadays?

Read about that. Weird what they do to films shown in China.

In regard of Fight Club (warning: Spoiler may occur for the ones that didn't seen it, yet): https://variety.com/2022/film/asia/fight...235162643/

Hey guys, don't forget to vote for Fanrestore's new logo! https://fanrestore.com/thread-4634.html Voting ends the 28th

Time to rewatch Fight Club.

Just saw that, sad

RIP Meat Loaf

Someone else will have to speak to them on my behalf.

I can't, it says making an account is not possible.

@FrankT: Get yourself into the MySpleen forums (myspleen.org/forums) and send an email to the moderators--Eftydub or splunk--to find out what's up.

I've been locked out of MySpleen! What do I do!?

I saw Raiders of the lost ark in concert, great experience. Would love to see Aliens.

Cool? More like Scary!!

That’s aliens concert is pretty cool.

BTW: Here's a bit from 'Aliens - Live' from Moscow: https://youtu.be/zOJR4QK1P4s Still haven't played in the USA or Canada.

Only two weeks for the 'Superman - In Concert' world premiere in Switzerland. If that 'Citi Light' orchestra can bang it out this month without cancelling again, other orchestras around the world can start booking that concert.

This article is so funny (and also true) https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/15/opini...-visa.html https://archive.is/1z6Eg ?

https://twitter.com/MustafaMirza202/stat...8991180804 ?

You say that but every time I see a facebook post from LG for a new TV the comments are full of people complaining about burn in. And this is people saying that they do everything they are told, they have the settings to combat it turned on, they don't leave the TV on pause and it still happened and when it did LG did not want to know - or they offered to fix it and when the TV was returned it was worse than it was before they fixed it. Even if you buy from Richer Sounds or John Lewis with the 6 year guarantee it doesn't cover burn in at all. So if I'm going to drop £3k+ on a new TV I need some kind of cast iron guarantee it will either never happen or it will get replaced if it does. Current TV is edge lit and one of the LEDs went so I had a dark shadow during light scenes, RS replaced it straight away with no quibble, but if it had been an OLED with burn it they wouldn't have done anything. Just can't afford to gamble when spending that much. Even if it's very unlikely, if it did happen after say 6 months, no one will fix it and no one will buy it so I'm completely screwed.

burn in is pretty much a non-issue in modern OLEDs. As long as whatever video player you use has a screensaver I wouldn't worry about it.

I‘m still a fan of the UST projectors (namely Fengmi CinemaPro 2 and Xiaomi Laser Cinema 2 -with Dolby Visio-). Even in daylight circumstances (not direct sunlight on the screen) the picture is bright enough to watch comfortably.

Well if you believe the hype these QD OLEDS are supposed to have the blacks of an OLED with the brightness of LCD, like Hitcher says though I don't expect them to be cheap. From what I understand this is a branch of Samsung that sells to other manufacturers so they won't just turn up in Samsung sets. My biggest issue is burn in though, I know it's better than it was but I've got a wife and a kid who insist on leaving the TV paused all the time! These QD OLEDs are supposed to be a lot better at avoiding burn in but it can still happen.

Indeed. My big problem with oled outside of price is the brightness. I need something bright if I’m watching TV durning the day.

QD-OLED's will cost a fortune though

I love my OLED. It's well worth the cost.

There is so much new OLED tech coming it makes my head swim. I just need it to be cheaper

Video discussing the new OLED tech being put out by Samsung - note that Samsung sponsored the video but the reviewer acknowledges this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Piteu5gyKq0

Louis Rossmann is a hero

This is why DRM is a terrible idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0iqH5KcVM0

...a bit too late, I know... anyway, Happy New Year to anyone!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year. :-)

Happy new year everyone, with good health always, and no more covid!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year

Merry Christmas you all!

Merry Christmas!!!!

Merry Christmas Everyone

Merry Christmas. Enjoy

Happy Christmas

Happy Christmas guys

Merry Christmas

I would like to wish everyone here a Merry Christmas!

Oh oh oh, Merry Xmas!!!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all you good fanres people

The disk has been online for several days.