So I browsed a bit the web, to no avail.

I like to collect DVDs that are either dual sided, or DVD-9, holding both widescreen and open matte versions of films.

Most of those were released in the early days of DVD from 1997 on.

Anyone could help build a more complete list by contributing, please feel free to post titles here.

Some of those I come across:

- Batman
- Batman Returns
- Batman Forever
- Batman & Robin
- Bronco Billy (actually it's cropped on the sides)
- Cobra
- The Crow (2 disc set)
- Dark City
- Dr No
- Evil Dead 2
- The Exorcist
- Fantastic 4: Rise Of The Silver Surfer
- From Russia With Love
- Goldeneye (Pan & Scan side)
- Goldfinger
- Hang'Em High
- Hellraiser
- Hellraiser 2
- Jumper
- Last Action Hero
- Memphis Belle
- Men In Black
- Nightmare on Elm Street (all 7 of them)
- Payback
- Resident Evil: Apocalypse
- The Specialist
- Speed
- Starman
- Super Speedway
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Total Recall

Don't hesitate to add. Also feel free to point cases like Bronco Billy, where they cropped the sides instead of open-matting.

The Tall Man.

My first project here, but on my blog, it will be number 114.
I started this project a few months ago but at the same time, I was working on the Hannibal TV show edits.
That was a lot of work, so I did that first
So the project was going back on the self, and next week I put my hands on it again to finish it.
It's a two in one edition of Phantasm, Phantasm Oblivion, and some inserts of Phantasm II
The first idea was to do a two in one edition of Phantasm and Phantasm II but that didn't work because the part of Mike was done by another actor
Somehow it didn't work for me so I had to do something else with it
It's gonna be a two hours cut, in DTS 7.1 surround taking from blu-ray source, and somewhere in June it's done

I've been getting back into the LOTR trilogy lately and thanks to 44rh1n and Dwalin there are now options for both the first and second part of the trilogy.
(Although I know of a method that one could use to get a perfect color grading of the extended shots, but sadly I'm too ill and tired to work with such a project)

Now back on topic: You all probably know the Theatrical Blu-ray of TTT has tons of DNR. The sad part is the Extended version is also plagued by this in lots of scenes with smearing artifacts. It is so visible in outdoor scenes like when Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli are chasing the orchs that it sticks out like a sore thumb in this majestic trilogy.

I was wondering if there are any old HDTV broadcasts or Web-DL versions or similar, of either the Theatrical or Extended version of TTT that are free from this DNR?
Here are a few links to screenshots of the Extended version of TTT, taken from an own encode of mine where I got rid of the black bars on the sides:
(Tried to find a good lossless image sharing website, not sure if this one's any good)
2002-The-Two-Towers-mkv-snapshot-00-08-39-759.png (1920×804) (ibb.co)
2002-The-Two-Towers-mkv-snapshot-00-08-42-349.png (1920×804) (ibb.co)
2002-The-Two-Towers-mkv-snapshot-00-08-59-002.png (1920×804) (ibb.co)
2002-The-Two-Towers-mkv-snapshot-00-19-08-731.png (1920×804) (ibb.co)
2002-The-Two-Towers-mkv-snapshot-00-27-59-553.png (1920×804) (ibb.co)
2002-The-Two-Towers-mkv-snapshot-00-31-38-605.png (1920×804) (ibb.co)
2002-The-Two-Towers-mkv-snapshot-00-35-37-385.png (1920×804) (ibb.co)
2002-The-Two-Towers-mkv-snapshot-00-35-52-318.png (1920×804) (ibb.co)
2002-The-Two-Towers-mkv-snapshot-00-45-48-914.png (1920×804) (ibb.co)
2002-The-Two-Towers-mkv-snapshot-01-13-00-168.png (1920×804) (ibb.co)
2002-The-Two-Towers-mkv-snapshot-02-01-04-453.png (1920×804) (ibb.co)
2002-The-Two-Towers-mkv-snapshot-02-01-10-637.png (1920×804) (ibb.co)
2002-The-Two-Towers-mkv-snapshot-02-30-46-080.png (1920×804) (ibb.co)

As you can see, in some of these shots there's not just smearing but also halo artifacts and similar.
I want to know if there is any version free of this?
At the same time I kinda don't expect there to be one, seeing how they took this master and upscaled and put even more DNR on top of it for the 4K release!
Of course, that could just have been the good old laziness of movie companies, rather using automatic software without doing any quality control at all.

Thanks in advance and see ya later film fans!

Hello to both new and old friends!
While I might not be active a lot because of real life troubles it's nice to be part of this forum.
See you later!

Am I the only one who is following the Eurovision Song Contest 2021?

If not, let's talk about this here!

P.S. in relation to this, I strongly recommend to watch "Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga" - you can have quite some fun while understanding something about the contest.

Project Info:

This project is more of a proof of concept of advancements in Digital Noise Reduction algorithms, and that DNR no longer needs to be considered a wholly destructive process. The algorithm I used for this can by found at https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.12758.pdf which is a GPU-accelerated neural-network based non-local denoising algorithm.

I chose this movie for a couple reasons:

1. It was given a 4K HDR release relatively recently, meaning the film grain would be essentially losslessly preserved from the scan.
   
2. It's black and white, which reduces the processing power required by 2/3s relative to color film.
   
3. It's my favorite movie.
   

Hi there,

I think the horror fan addicts will know me from other sites, and if you don't, well for 6 years now I make edits mostly from horror and fantasy films
I made more than a hundred fan-edits and I think it would be nice to discuss OR put some of my future work here
At the moment very busy with remakes from older stuff I did, but in the upcoming months there will be also a bunch of new ones
Well, that's it!

Hi everyone! I'm new to this forum. I love Hong Kong cinema and came to this forum after learning that home video releases of many of the classics I love. Hope to be able to watch my favourite HK films as they were originally intended to be seen and make some new friends too! 

I'll be brief, I need help. I'm at my wits' end. I have this film Battletruck (aka 'Warlords of the 21st Century') in its only Blu-Ray release (from Japan!) which is a higher definition than previous VHS and DVD releases but the colors are terrible (Cineteca di Bologna style).
Color correction on Premiere doesn't help at all and I don't seem to get anywhere with Da Vinci Resolve either, I've tried for a long time but being not too familiar with it I didn't get any real result. Does anyone know if the colors "salvageable"? Maybe with the magical DrDre's tool? I have no idea. Anyone wants to take a stab at it? I could really use some help (if it's even possible to "save" it), because I really can't stand watching it with those colors but I don't know what to do. Plus I seem to be the only one who bought this film and it could use some "spreading" (but not in this form).

I compared it with a copy found on YouTube (from DVD or perhaps VHS) so you can see how wrong they are.

BR vs SD copy from YouTube (DVD or VHS)

I am in the process of transferring my rental VHS tapes. Most of them are Swedish releases with subtitles, with the films themselves having the usual PAL speed up and the burnt in subtitles being interlaced. My plan was to just slow down the footage to 24 fps, but I was thinking if there was a way to “deinterlace” the subtitles?