Hey guys

Can anyone help out with the 1st Region 1 release of A Clockwork Orange?
It contains the movie in 4:3 and has the original mono mix.

Many thanks

Hey guys

Can anyone help out with the 1st Region 1 release of The Shining?
It contains the movie in 4:3 and has the original mono mix.

Many thanks

I have a question.
Complete novice here, so please excuse my blundering description of what's going on.
I live in a Region 1 nation and have a PAL VCR, a Panasonic NV SD270 player. Pretty basic model, I know, but it plays NTSC tapes. I am converting tapes to digital, using budget software.
Well, when converting a commercial release NTSC tape I noticed a “pop” at the extreme bottom of the screen. I have worked in traditional animation and have a very good eye for discrepancies, color pops being the indicator of a mistake that needs correction. So I had a look. There was a small area of detail, which persisted for a fraction of a second and isn't a fault in the tape, so I played back the capture to see what it was.
I used a software player that allows me to step 24 frames second to view the capture. Here's the thing. The “pop” (sorry) consisted of an area maybe 20 pixels square, with 5 frames showing detail against a black background. but each time I captured the motion it displayed a different set of frames. Lets call them A B C D and E .
First try       frames A B C     E, displayed
Second try, frames A    C D E.
Where B was present, D never was. When B was absent D was always present.
I repeated the capture 10 times and not once did all frames display. Just a fairly even split between the 2 options. Frame D had a small area of black surrounded by a fainter shade. In some captures the black area presented as a black square rather than a smooth circular area.
Replaying the capture , there was no discernible difference between the action on the entire screen, it appeared to run smoothly every time. But a clearly discernible difference between the behaviour of this small area. my perception being the result of checking and correcting literally 100's of thousands of animation cels.
Capturing at 25 fps or 30 fps made no difference
I believe that this section of the movie was sped up from the original filming speed, at least 2 times.
Filmed originally on Sony Betacam and processed using After Effects.
So does my Pal VCR play NTSC tapes at 30 (nominal) fps or 25? 
Is the discrepancy due to the 24 fps stepping of a 30 fps capture? When the same thing happened at a 25fps sampling rate.
Am I wasting my life obsessing over such a small detail. Probably, but that's how I learn and I don't get out much.
A little help here please.

Hi all,

Tying into some discussion we've had here recently, Bullet in the Head just turned 30!

I also read this interesting, but unfortunate news:

Quote:There were plans for a bluray release of this using a brand new source in full genuine HD. But the problem was the original film negative of Woo's original theatrical cut (136 min) was never found and is believed to be long gone by now. This led to all plans being cancelled.

Please delete thread.

I know it's 2020, but I guess I still have some questions that I couldn't quite figure out about Dialog Nomarlization on AC-3, THD and DTS tracks.

I noticed that on the majority of AC-3 and THD encoded tracks on commertial discs, when attemped to decode to wav/w64 with EAC3TO,  the program detects clipping and makes a second pass applying a negative gain to correct the issue. But it's usally less than the -4db Dialog Normalization standard.

- So my first question is, in case of such tracks, if Dialog Normalization flag is removed from an encoded track (EAC3TO default demuxing parameter), what would happen when played back and decoded by a regular consumer AVR product? I mean, will it occour in clipping?

My guess is that the receiver won't be able to perform such second pass correction on the fly. Is this assumption correct?


- The second question is, what's the practical implication of applying such negative gain, Does it affect the quality of the audio in any way?


- Third and final question, what about a positive gain (usually applied when setting the "normalize" option on EAC3To decoding process), does it have any negative impact on the audio quality?

In other words, is applying a positive gain is more "harmfull" than a negative one?


Thanks a lot for any valuable info!
I did a previous search on these issues, but couldn't find convincing answers. So what's better than couting on the knowledge of the great userbase here.

It's been a year since I first joined fanres! Doesn't time fly when you are having fun  I've learned a ton of stuff I had no idea about before, got several projects under my belt and "met" a load of great people who have helped me out no end with technical advice, project materials and transfer services. This is a really great community and I have a load of interesting projects planned for the coming year. Thanks all.

According to LDDB.com all Japanese release of JP on LD have two trailers on them.
If anyone has the LD and can also capture them, I'd appreciate it.

We need the audio for the 35mm trailers

Thanks in advance

and before anyone ask/offers: I do have JP Trilogy on DVD. So no need for these trailers.

does anyone have the DTS CD ROM's for the theatrical release of Mission Impossible 2? preferably from the UK

trying to confirm if there was some audio censorship to the film.