Does anyone have ether the German or Umbrella Australian blus of this film? Unlike most other BDs using Miramax's HD master from an IP, I heard these particluar releases use a 35mm theatrical print transfer (supposidly a overseas one opening with a TransAtlantic Entertainment logo before Dimensions). Curious to know as these releases seem very hard to find.

"hello there",
don´t know how often virgins like me encouter these deep waters of media presentation and preservation, but probably alot.
I started to get wind of this kind of community due to 4k77 as many as i suspect. So now i decided to see what value this community here has for me, because i´m a little hooked on this whole subject and have a lot to learn and first to read!

Don´t let me bother you any further

Hi everyone. I'm a lifelong movie fan and home video enthusiast, going all the way back to VHS and up through 4K UHD. I've never really explored fan restorations that much before, but for the past couple of months I've started to get into it more.

I'm looking forward to enjoying all the great work here. I'm excited to start with the audio projects, getting original mixes to replace the revisionist ones found on newer releases. It's great to find people who care about these things when the studios don't.

Thanks and see you all around!

Hi,

after the Shoutbox shoutouting, regarding country specific marketplaces for used stuff, like DVDs. I want to collect such marketplaces from around the globe, so if someone searches for a specific release form a specific country, that someone might also check out local used stuff marketplace sites, if he can spot his object of desire.

Ill think we shoudl also, next to the link of course, note down some specific information, like if it is english friendly / homep age language options(*), possible to register from other countries than the marketplace country, and such.


(*) some sellers on such places might have different personal options...


So I start


Germany:
Rote Erdbeere
https://www.roteerdbeere.com/
Description: Small German akternative to ebay, also with "adult only" stuff (that needs log in and age validation).
Type: Auction platform
Site-Languages: German
International friendly: NOT TESTET


Filmundo
https://www.filmundo.de/
Description: Small German Auction Platform for Movies and PC GAmes, and Movie/Game related stuff, "adult only" stuff shown after log in with age verification.
Type: Auction plattform
Site-Languages: German
International friendly: NOT TESTET


eBay Kleinanzeigen
https://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/
Description: Germal lokalizes branch from eBay, thats not per auction, but like small ads, someone could post something he offers or searches, and interested people contact the seller for further arrangements.
Type: small ads used stuff Marketplace
Site-Languages: German
International friendly: NOT TESTET


Netherlands:
Marktplaats
https://www.marktplaats.nl/
Description: used item Tradeplace combination of small ads and auction plattform, with a bit more direct contact to the seller
Type: Auction plattform
Site-Languages: Dutch
International friendly:
YES:
Germany (in test)
NO:
United Kingdom


Finland:
Huuto
https://www.huuto.net/
Description: Auction plattform not exclusive to movies, but about everything thats legal (in finland) (Serious guys/gals: I've even saw a de-weaponized anti-tank canon from WW2 there!!!)
Site-Language: Finnish
International friendly:
YES:
Germany (but with issues when registering, I had problems with my mobile phone and adress setup, needed customer service from that page)



Reported by spoRv ( https://fanrestore.com/thread-3819-post-...l#pid70061 )
Italy:
Subito
https://www.subito.it/
Description: Biggest Italian non-auction marketplace for used and new stuff; localized
Type: Small ads
Site-Languages: Italian
International friendly: NOT TESTED


Lithuania:
Skelbiu
https://www.skelbiu.lt/
Description: Biggest Lithuanian non-auction marketplace for used and new stuff; localized
Type: Small ads
Site-Languages: Lithuanian
International friendly: NOT TESTED



Poland:
Allegro
https://allegro.pl/
Description: Famous marketplace for used and new stuff; localized
Type: Small ads and auction
Site-Languages: Polish
International friendly: NOT TESTED
Registration is internationally possible (registered from Germany), but there is no Language option to see the page in other than polish.
Personal (from Germany) experience (I just might have been unlucky): So far most of the sellers I asked answered, that they do not ship internationally, if they answered at all.


Sweden:
Finn
https://www.finn.no/
Description: Big non-auction marketplace for used and new stuff; localized
Type: Small ads
Site-Languages: Swedish
International friendly: NOT TESTED


(Reportet by IcePrick / https://fanrestore.com/thread-3819-post-...l#pid71234 )
Tradera
https://www.tradera.com/
Description: Swedisch local auction plattform, similar to eBay.
Type: Like ebay. Auctions. But possibly also has fixed price offers.
Site-Lanbnguages: Swedisch, English, German
International friendly: Depending on individual Seller



Reported by TomArrow ( https://fanrestore.com/thread-3819-post-...l#pid70066 )

Spain:
todocoleccion
https://todocoleccion.net
Description: Marketplace with slight focus on collector's items. Has Super8, old books, adult stuff. I don't know if the collector's aspect of it is even very relevant. Maybe the key is that the stuff there is a bit older? Not sure. But has a lot of stuff.
Type: Like ebay. Auctions or fixed prices.
Site Languages: Various to choose from iirc.
International friendly: Ability to order from Germany without big issues. If you can't find your country name in the list, consider that it might be called something completely different in Spanish. The country list does not get translated.


Czech:
Aukro
https://aukro.cz
Description: Like ebay, but in Czech. Have found some 16mm stuff there, for example, but it has all kinds of stuff.
Type: Like ebay. Auctions. But possibly also has fixed price offers.
Site languages: Not tested
International friendly: Was able to order from Germany but I do speak Czech so I'm not sure how well it would work otherwise.




Questions in Regard to usability to the reporting users, I just collect all on top for viewability.

Or laser, that works, too. Anyone have this they could share?  The Blu-ray has a Dolby surround track, but I’m 99% sure it’s just a downmix of the 5.1 track.

Hello,
im new here . I saw here some very cool stuff that people are doing.
Im here to learn new stuff and Media Preservation.

Have a good day!

TeeBeutel007

Hi All,

So my Denon AVR has three audio settings from what I can work out:

Pure - plays the file as is with no adjustments
Pure Direct - same but the most of the machine shuts down so there is no mechanical noise/interference - also turns off the AVR OSD
Movie - select the playback type i.e. DTS-HD, stereo, mono, multi mono etc

I imagine most people on fanres will opt for pure or pure direct. However the AVR also has this Audyssey feature where you place a microphone in different parts of the room and it calibrates itself based on your actual room. When playing the AVR in pure or pure direct mode, the calibration from that feature is turned off. There are some that say room calibration is one of the biggest advances in home theater. 

To be honest with my hearing I doubt I'd hear any difference between the settings, but what do others do? 

Thanks

There is open matte DVB of arrival 2016 on Russian famous tracker. Is there around any other open matte webdl or hdtv of this film?

http://www.framecompare.com/image-compar...n/FE11MNNU

Long time lurker of this forum. Long time member of originaltrilogy.com. The TR47 laserdisc captures of pre-SE Star Wars movies over 15(20?!)
years ago is what introduced me to fan-restorations and such. The art of recreating and/or preserving a piece of movie history that is not commercially
available on currect formats, that is movie magic to me!

Have started a few projects of my own over the years, while having finished even fewer..

*Dragon Fist, synced uncut english mono track to the HKL dvd (Obsolete since 88 released their BD)

*Operation Condor, recreation of the HK-cut in HD with english dub based on the japanese print (rendered obsolete by 88 films release) 

*Armour of God, uncut with english dub based on Miramax BD paired with Mediumrare BD (paused due to HKR releasing their version before I finished mine)

*Wheels on Meals, synced the old english dub to the old HKL dvd (obsolete since Eureka released their bluray. Starting to see a pattern..? )

*Police Story 2, recreation of the shorter HK-cut with english hybrid dub track and color corrected to match theatrical print (harddrive failed, starting over from scratch... )

*Drunken Master, color correction to remove green tint (slowly getting there..)

*Snake in eagles shadow, synced the english dub with alt. music to japan HD print (I believe the german BD has it, and 88s' release is coming, so obsolete again. But it's a good thing! )

Also donated a few bucks to the 35mm TGTBTU project a couple of years ago.

Among my favourite fan-res projects are the color-corrected Fellowship of the Ring - Extended, Terminator 1 with mono audio, various Star Wars projects and most things related to Hongkong-cinema.

Cheers!

This is something that's kinda driven me insane for months now because it seems that there is no consistency from one release to another. I don't think there's really any one "right way" of doing it and that frustrates the hell out of me. But I'll document it here and if anybody knows something I don't they can maybe tell me if there's some generally accepted wisdom on this, regardless of what the releasing companies actually do in practice.

I'm hoping that this might serve not just as an extremely long-winded way of me asking a complicated question, but also as something of an "idiot's guide to aspect ratio conversions", since I spent quite a long time trying to structure it in a way that would help others to understand some of these otherwise quite baffling concepts, even a complete beginner who has absolutely no idea about any of it. Whether I succeeded in that, I don't know. But hopefully it's useful to somebody, somewhere along the line. And if you happen to have any bright ideas for how to go about solving the 486 vs 480 px problem and the unpredictable DAR problem I've described in excruciating detail below, please, please do let me know! I have literally hundreds of LaserDisc captures that I am trying to work my way through and organise, and I do not want to discover months or years later that I have been encoding them all stupidly from the start and there was a simple solution all along...

EDIT: I've finally comprehensively clarified everything I was looking to find out here and I kind of feel like an idiot now that I've realised what it was that I was missing. Essentially all of this comes down to one very fundamental concept that, in the midst of my insomnia-addled internet research frenzy, I had leapt over while trying to understand the other aspects. This realisation came from finding a resource that described how to correctly adjust from non-square to square pixel aspect ration (a.k.a. sample aspect ratio), which it describes doing before any cropping and then cropping afterwards. But there's more to the order of operations, it really just comes down to what pixel/sample aspect ratio actually is and how the numbers all work. I should probably edit this original top post to incorporate all that info but that's going to require a lot of work and I'm extremely busy so for now I'll just point you to the posts later in this thread where I discuss it...

First off here's me talking about the aforementioned method of adjusting anamorphic 720 x 486 to square pixel AR: https://fanrestore.com/thread-3813-post-...l#pid69967

Then me realising the core thing I'd been missing and explaining with numbers why it's significant and explains all the stuff I was wondering about: https://fanrestore.com/thread-3813-post-...l#pid69976

And finally, confirming all that by correlating it back to the original questions as laid out in this top post: https://fanrestore.com/thread-3813-post-...l#pid69993

Wikipedia Wrote:Although standards-compliant video processing software should never fill all 720 pixels with active picture (only the center 704 pixels must contain the actual image, and the remaining 8 pixels on the sides of the image should constitute vertical black bars), recent digitally generated content (e.g. DVDs of recent movies) often disregards this rule. This makes it difficult to tell whether these pixels represent wider than 4x3 or 16x9 (as they would do if following Rec.601), or represent exactly 4x3 or 16x9 (as they would do if created using one of the fudged 720-referenced pixel aspect ratios).

Wikipedia Wrote:Analog-to-digital conversion

As a result of computers becoming powerful enough to serve as video editing tools, video digital-to-analog converters and analog-to-digital converters were made to overcome this incompatibility. To convert analog video lines into a series of square pixels, the industry adopted a default sampling rate at which luma values were extracted into pixels. The luma sampling rate for 480i pictures was 12 3⁄11 MHz and for 576i pictures was 14 3⁄4 MHz.

The term pixel aspect ratio was first coined when ITU-R BT.601 (commonly known as "Rec. 601") specified that standard-definition television pictures are made of lines of exactly 720 non-square pixels. ITU-R BT.601 did not define the exact pixel aspect ratio but did provide enough information to calculate the exact pixel aspect ratio based on industry practices: The standard luma sampling rate of precisely 13 1⁄2 MHz.