The current Blu-days have excessive DNR and look quite waxy.

On caps-a-holic there is a comparison with the DE DVD where I see a little more grain on the DVD but at the same time it looks really soft and blurry.

Wondering if the R1 DVD fairs any better.

Does anyone have it and can post some screencaps?

Raging Bull Special Edition #120 (1980) [CC1230L] Laserdisc synced to Blu-ray


Title: Raging Bull (1980)
Format/Catalog#: Criterion [CC1230L]
Synced to: Blu-ray
Input Soundtrack: 16-bit, 44.1khz, Stereo (bit perfect)
Output Soundtrack: 16-bit, 44.1khz, Stereo
Sourced by: BDgeek / alinskey
Ripped by: alinskey
Synced by: sertoli


Better sound. 

I’m looking for Eraserhead with the open matte seen on the VHS. If anyone has captured this on VHS or Laserdisc, I would love to see it.

Se7en (1995) Laserdisc [ID3364LI] synced to Blu-ray.

Pulp Fiction Special Edition (1994) [CC1423L] Laserdisc synced to Japanese Blu-ray


Title: Pulp Fiction (1994)
Format/Catalog#: Criterion [CC1423L]
Synced to: Japanese Blu-ray
Input Soundtrack: 16-bit, 44.1khz, Stereo (bit perfect)
Output Soundtrack: 16-bit, 44.1khz, Stereo
Sourced by: BDgeek / alinskey
Ripped by: alinskey
Synced by: sertoli


Better sound. 

Just saw this review of the 5950X compared to Intel's 10900k:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72AHENDeTEI

Was rather impressed by the results. In some applications, it's kinda 2x as fast as Intel's chip and only bested by the 3970x and 3990x threadrippers.

Could be a nice "affordable" workstation CPU for video editing and such.

Goodfellas (1990) Japanese Laserdisc [NJL-12039] synced to UHD

Title: Goodfellas (1990)
Format/Catalog#: Laserdisc [NJL-12039]
Synced to: UHD
Input Soundtrack: 16-bit, 44.1khz, Stereo (bit perfect)
Output Soundtrack: 16-bit, 44.1khz, Stereo
Sourced by: BDgeek / alinskey
Ripped by: alinskey
Synced by: sertoli


Better sound. 

In this moment I have a 5.1 audio setup, that includes front towers, center, small surrounds and a small sub.

I'm pretty happy with it, but as my amplifier has 9 channels amplification (+2 pre), I could get up to 11 speakers (plus sub/s) - DTS-HD MA or Dolby TrueHD 7ch + Audissey DSX/Dolby Pro-Logic IIx/z up to 11ch.

Thinking about adding some speakers to have a more "enveloping" surround - and use them if/when upgrading to a Dolby Atmos/DTS:X system.

But I also found a good deal, trading my complete system (and quite some €€€) for an Hi-End 5.0 system (plus a good center speaker that would be used as back center).

Now I'm torn... the Hi-End speakers have a lot of qualities: really great building quality, gread sound, beautiful pieces of art, very rare. Even if the price asked is not low in absolute term, relatively to the quality is a bargain. Big problem is that finding another pair of speakers of the same "family" or even brand, timbrically similar, is almost impossible, so most probably I'll be forced to stay with 5 speakers +1 back center for a while (or "forever").

Yet, with the money asked to get them I could get another six or eight speakers (of the same "family") and an Atmos amplifier (all used of course).

What to do, what to do...

The Seventh Seal (1957) Scandinavia DVD R2 [Svensk Filmindustri] synced to Criterion BD
This rare DVD have the sound better than Tartan DVD R2.
See: Bad Audio on Blu-ray review
More noise. More details. The Tartan DVD is more muffled.

In the Heat of the Night (1967) 40th Anniversary DVD sync to Criterion BD.

Better sound.