Found an interesting list online, with HD-HDTV HR-HDTV names - just copy and paste interested titles in a search engine to find a torrent or (yup!) ed2K linkS!

Cleaned up to let the search easier, you can also copy&paste into your spreedsheet.

Title - year - file name - file size

Thoughts based on comparisons found on Caps-a-holic: https://caps-a-holic.com/index.php?s=star+wars

I do not take in account contrast (due to wrong HDR-to-SDR conversion, I hope) or colors here, but only frame size and resolution.

EP I, II, III: UHD-BDs have the exact same resolution of BDs, but have a tiny less image on both top and bottom, and both sides are slightly cut and stretched.

EP IV: UHD-BD has higher resolution than BD, and more image on both left and right, but less on top and bottom.

EP V: UHD-BD has higher resolution than BD, but less image on all sides.

EP VI: UHD-BD has higher resolution than BD, and more image on left, but less on right, top and bottom.

I'm trying to assemble a preservation of NEAR DARK from the best available elements, but have found that the best is not really good enough as far as what I've got already, despite me owning 4 copies of this film: 3 Blu-ray Disc releases and 1 double-disc PAL DVD from Anchor Bay.

The trouble is, the audio on all of these is screwed up in different ways...

1. The DVD actually hasn't been pitch shifted by PAL speedup, Anchor Bay seems to have done a decent job of that, but the trouble is I'd need to stretch it back to 23.967 fps. I tried doing so in Audacity (Change Tempo -4.096%) and it sounded like absolute crap, with that metallic clangy quality that often comes with slowing down audio or modifying it in similar ways. Being a DVD source, it's only available in AC3.
   
   
2. The UK Blu-ray Disc (presumably identical to the US one, though I'm not certain), the Spanish BD, and the French BD, all do have "PAL" pitch-shifted audio for some stupid reason, despite having 23.976 fps playback and no speedup. I can only assume that this is the result of some incredibly idiotic NTSC -> PAL -> NTSC conversion over time, but that doesn't make a lot of sense to me. I found the exact same issue with a much more recent release of a much newer film (German copy of Snowpiercer) so it's not just bad archival that seems to be causing distributors to do this. In any case, to fix this, I'd need to pitch-shift the audio back down again by some undetermined value (somewhere roughly close to a semitone, but not precisely) but that would introduce yet another conversion to the chain that would degrade the audio even further than it is already, making the LPCM/DTS-HD encodes available here less useful than they otherwise might have been.
   

1. The LaserDisc audio, which appears to have been digital so should be possible to obtain a direct LPCM rip of without quality loss (presumably not readily available)
   
   
2. The NTSC DVD audio, ideally from the equivalent Anchor Bay release (which includes a director commentary track), so that I can substitite out my PAL audio
   
   
3. Any other BD audio, specifically from the US BD, to see if it has the same pitch-shift problem as my PAL-region copies. It has occurred to me that this might have been an intentional effect for the European market, anticipating that we would expect to hear the higher pitched audio because of PAL speedup previously affecting VHS and DVD releases here, but they screwed that one up considering the Anchor Bay PAL DVDs didn't have that pitch shift in the first place!
   

Hello people. I'm looking for a HD version of this Universal logo (from 1923 to 1927, by all accounts, it was in the DVD version of The Cat and The Canary -1927 -from Kino-Lorber). Does anyone knows if this logo is on a Bluray somewhere or in HD (1080p/i) form anywhere ? If so, where can I find it, please ?

Thanks to answer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8AxfyHkuAU

So... I've discovered something extremely unsettling on a few Blu-rays lately and it doesn't make any sense to me.

The first one was my German copy of SNOWPIERCER. I was working on a sort of "ultimate remux" of sorts with my own newly-translated English subtitles (in both SRT and PGS format) and checking all the sources I have to ascertain which elements to use, and I was alarmed to discover that the German disc has exactly the sort of "PAL speedup" pitch shift you'd expect from an old-fashioned PAL (and thus 25 fps) DVD. However, it's got a framerate of 23.976 fps (24000/1001)! I thought maybe they're done something shonky to do with using audio from a master created for the German DVD or something (Germany being PAL etc.) and moved on with my life. After all, the Korean, American, and French Blu-rays were absolutely fine and had consistently lower pitch than the German audio. Weird anomaly, but no biggie, right?

The thing is though, now, I'm working on another one of my favourite films: NEAR DARK. I have many copies of this one as well: the much maligned US/UK BD, one from Spain, and the most recent one from France, as well as my old 2-disc Anchor Bay DVD copy, which is of course PAL (running at 25 fps, presumably with the associated speedup and resulting heightened pitch). The DVD has a director commentary that isn't on any BD release, so I was going to correct the PAL speedup on that and mux it into the French BD video track when I discovered 2 very confusing things:

1. The PAL DVD audio was not pitch-shifted upwards, as the music is in the same key as the soundtrack CD
   
   
2. On the contrary, the DVD audio is actually lower in pitch than all three of the Blu-ray releases, consistent across every audio track on each release. All the BDs have the pitch shifted too high, the same as German Snowpiercer!
   

Does anyone have a full screen theatrical version of Porky's and or the broadcast TV version of the film as well?

thanks

This thread is for original audio on Hitchcock titles. This has been inspired by today’s discovery: certain Hitchcock films were released in Japan on LD with digital audio as the last part of the “Hitchcock library” collection!

I’ve been able to verify so far: Blackmail, Rebecca and...Vertigo. The latter two I just unboxed and checked out. Vertigo is the same master as the analog only pan n scan USA LD but with a pcm mono track that sounds like the dvd and bd track but so far to my ears better...

Now to fly and get a capture device stat...

Hi guys,

I'm trying to track down a number of original theatrical mixes I'd like to sync to the UHDs that don't have them, and I would really appreciate this community expertise on the subject. Also, if you have any of them and are willing to share it with me, I'd gladly except the challenge of syncing them and share with everybody when done.

So here goes:

A FEW GOOD MEN - LD has Dolby Surround (original mix or the closest to it?)
SCHINDLER'S LIST - Cinema DTS (blu ray has DTS-HD MA 5.1, is this the original or near fielfd remix?)
BRAVEHEART - Dolby True HD 5.1 on blu ray could be the original DD (did it have DTS cinema?)
THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK - LD has DTS (original mix?)
THE BIG LEBOWSKI - Cinema DTS (blu ray has DTS-HD MA 5.1, is this the original or near fielfd remix?)  
SAVING PRIVATE RYAN - Cinema DTS? (blu ray's DTS-HD MA 5.1 is supposedly inferior both to DTS on DVD and cinema DTS)
THE MUMMY - Cinema DTS?
GLADIATOR - Cinema DTS, it's somewhere out there...
HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS (Jim Carrey) - Cinema DTS?

Thanks guys, any help of getting a hold of these would be very much appreciated.

Another project complete. The blu ray has drastically different colours when compared to the laserdisc so I have colour corrected it scene by scene, using over 50 Dr Dre LUTs and slightly adjusting the contrast levels in Premiere.

• BD25 with animated menus that look and behave like the official Criterion discs, with a background video, pop up menus and resume function
  
• Video taken from the official Blu Ray, with scene by scene colour correction
  
• Original chapter stops used on the Laserdisc
  
• English 2.0 from the Laserdisc (Thanks Alexpeden and Zoidberg!)
  
• Two Criterion audio commentary tracks taken from Laserdisc
  
• English, French, German and Spanish Subtitles
  
• Theatrical Trailer
  
• Making Of A Menace: Introduction
  
• Interview With The Hughes Brothers
  
• Deleted Scenes
  
• Storyboards
  
• Film To Story Comparison
  
• Shooting the Korean Grocery Store Scenes
  
• Film School
  
• 2Pac Brenda's Got A Baby Music Video
  
• Raw Fusion Throw Your Hands In The Air Music Video
  
• Laserdisc Production Credits