Merry Christmas everyone!

A special (slightly) early Christmas present for you all. Jingle All the Way put together for the best possible viewing experience we can get. I have combined the 2015 Blu-ray with the 2022 4K Disney Plus web stream.

No recent home media release of Jingle All the Way is especially good, the best release was probably the DVD, which definitely shows its age by today's standards. The Blu-ray's aspect ratio is wrong in both the Theatrical and Director's Cut, and it even shifts throughout the film in the Director's Cut. The colours are really cold and lack any contrast with a very washed out presentation. On the flip-side, the Disney Plus web stream has the correct aspect ratio, a colour palette that more closely resembles the DVD (with a big green push) however the saturation, contrast, etc. are cranked up so much that it looks like vomit. A lot of details, especially darker and brighter sections are crushed to all hell and look a lot worse than the Blu-ray even with the higher resolution and cleaner transfer.

So what I've done is combine the Blu-ray transfer's video and 4K transfer's colours, pinching any shots from the 4K video that was salvageable and regraded for consistency in colours, contrast, etc. The Director's Cut scenes are sourced from the Blu-ray, with the aspect ratio fixed and colours regraded to match the rest of the transfer. The audio that is provided is from the Blu-ray.

VIDEO

• Regrading of the film, not just scene to scene but in some cases shot to shot in order to restore the film to something closer to previous releases
  

• Fixed 2015 Blu-ray transfer's aspect ratio
  

• Inserting and regrading of Director's Cut scenes to match the rest of the film
  

• Fixed a minor visual glitch only present in the 2015 Blu-ray Director's Cut using the 2015 Blu-ray Theatrical Cut.
  

The UHD release of this movie sounds like shit. Both the 5.1 track and the 2.0 track have been subjected to heavy noise reduction but the 5.1 mix is among the worst I've heard, especially for a movie of this vintage.

I have an early 86 HBO Hi-Fi VHS rip I've synced that sounds phenomenal. It looks/sounds like it's had little to no noise reduction. It's a bit light on the low end but that is something that EQ might be able to easily fix.

VHS/5.1downmix/2.0
https://i.imgur.com/8Z4Znt7.png

Does anyone have the LD w/Digital audio? It's a much later release but would love to hear how it compares. https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/10281/LVD9545/Raw-Deal

Input Soundtrack: 16-bit, 44.1khz, Stereo (bit perfect)
Output Soundtrack: 16-bit, 44.1khz, Stereo
Sourced by: BDgeek / alinskey

Please thanks and PM for access

NOTE: While exacting bit-perfect accuracy is typically preferred for LD syncs, I prefer to use speed adjustments to keep synchronization. I also insert BD audio to cover reel changes or side breaks when necessary. As well as minor filtering in the form of DC Offset correction, de-humming, and manual declicking (when necessary). 2.0 mono tracks are processed with Voxengo MSED to remove stereo information unless stated otherwise.

I synced up the original region 1 DVD's Dolby Digital 4.0 track to the bluray. I'm assuming the audio on the DVD is the original 4-track stereo mix.

Long time lurker, and blown away by the work you have all done. Looking forward to diving into many!

Hi guys, I was looking for Harry Potter Open Matte versions and came across this forum! It's a shame that companies aren't willing to restore old movies and people have to it on their own. 

I would be willingly buying an open matte versions with restored image quality, but for the most of my favorite movies this is not an option.

Thanks to all people who do such projects on their own!

Hi, big fan of fanrestore.
It's nice to see that many people share the same passion.
Loving the site, long live fanrestore

Hi folks, a new project for you all - a remastered version of the classic British spy-fi show The Avengers, Series 5 (probably the most popular season with Diana Rigg as Emma Peel) with numerous fixes to StudioCanal's rather disastrous Blu-ray transfer from 2010. The will be an ongoing release over the next few years as I find the time to work on it - the first two episodes are available now (PM for link)!




Improvements are:

1. Resynced video to the much clearer soundtrack from the 2001 UK DVD release by Contender. The Blu-ray audio was heavily NR'd.

2. Shot-by-shot colour correction using the Contender DVD image as a reference. The Blu-ray's grading was among the poorest I've seen for a major TV series - very flat, faded, red/pink (see the comparison video above).

3. Fixed the framing on several shots which were opened up too much on the Blu-ray revealing the corners of the frame and hairs on the gate that were not visible in the original broadcast.

4. Restored film grain, which was scrubbed from the Blu-ray. Helpfully, the first and last frame of most shots on the Blu-ray showed the original grain (it's the way these automated DNR tools worked at the time) and so I was able to judge the exact level required.

5. Removed motion-blur from the opening and closing credits. Footage for the credits is supplied from the 2019 Network Blu-ray "The Cybernauts Trilogy", which had superior detail to the StudioCanal transfer, but also some temporal NR errors which I've patched out.





Episode 1 Tech Details:

FILE NAME:  The Avengers (1967) - S05E01 The Fear Merchants.m2ts
FILE SIZE:  9.31GB
DURATION:  00:51:28
VIDEO:  1920x1080p - 23.976FPS - MPEG-4 AVC - 1.33:1 AR
AUDIO:  2.0 Mono LPCM - English - 48KHz - 16 Bit


Sources:

Video
The Avengers: Series 5 (Blu-ray - UK - 2015 - Cat: OPTBD1751)
The Avengers: The Cybernauts Trilogy (Blu-ray - UK - 2019 - Cat: 7958198)

Audio
The Avengers: The Definitive Dossier - File One (DVD - UK - 2001 - Cat: KLT21001A)


Hope you all enjoy

Hello to the community! I love seeing all the creativity and technical skills here with these fan edits. I'm also a big fan of preservation so I'm looking forward to being part of this community.

Cheers!

I was browsing caps-a-holic recently when I came across an oddity: Each film in the Iron Man trilogy has a US and a DE release listed, and they are strikingly different. The DE release appears to have less DNR and the pre-Atmouse 5.1 mix. It seems to have color issues, but I guess you can't really tell from a tonemapped screenshot.

Here's one of the more interesting comparisons: https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&a=0&...28&i=9&l=0
In the US 4K ashes just disappear. 

Here's the link for all 3 films: https://caps-a-holic.com/index.php?s=iron+man+

What say you?