I think we should make an effort to develop an archive of Criterion Collection Laserdisc supplements. You know, some of them being exclusives and what have you. The idea was thrown around before, but that hasn't really gotten anywhere. Can it be done?

Hello,

I imagine that this may split opinions, but I thought I would ask. In the event of constructing a complete reconstruction of a film (using uncut/cut sources etc), would it be preferable to recreate the ending credits (over a textless, but higher quality version of the credits scene) or simply use a lower quality source for their entirety? 
The higher quality source (in this case, HD) of course looks nicer, but there will be a few frames inserted from a lower quality source that might have credits on them. So if either choosing to recreate the credits, or leave the credits scene textless, a few frames would either suddenly feature text (or two layers of text potentially overlapping).

The ending credits on the lower quality source are in multiple languages too, so attempting to even OCR or transcribe them them may prove difficult due to a decrease in legibility.

Any feedback/opinions are appreciated.

I recently bought the UK BD of Christine released by Indicator. This is the only BD release I know of that includes the original Stereo mix, let alone uncompressed. All the US releases seem to only include the 5.1 remix and I'm not sure what sfx were changed or altered but I'm sure there are some. Anyhow, All that needs done is syncing to whatever release you want to apply this track to... In my case the 4K UHD release. I demuxed the original stereo and it is available upon PM. Thanx.

BR / HDTV


Thanks to X5gb I made some quick comparison between the UK Blu-Ray and the HDTV version that X5gb has and here's some images. Now, they might not be the same exact frame but near enough.

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/129572

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/129573

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/129574

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/129575

HDTV seems dirtier, with less details and a bit yellow. Less crop though!
UK Blu-Ray is more cropped but with less dirt, more details than HDTV and what appears to be the correct colors. DNR'ed though, as many fans of this film know.

Another film that Paramount didn't bother give a modern and better treatment. At the moment, the DNR version on Blu-Ray is still the version with better colors, more details and what appears to be a better framing (at least to my eye).

Does anyone know if there is an HD version available of Bill Hicks' Revelations?
It's a stand up performance that I'm quite fond of and was hoping that it would make my archive.

Have you noticed that lately all websites ask (finally) to accept their cookies? Well, I discovered that, even if many allow you to NOT accept some intrusions in your privacy (like ads), others says, basically "accept (what?) or you can't view our content"!

So, time to start to use tools better suited to protect your (our) privacy - well, if you can always trust them!

Browser:
brave

Internet search:
duckduckgo
google (via startpage)

Social Network:
mewe

Chat:
threema
signal

Video:
vimeo
youtube & others (via duckduckgo)

Email:
protonmail

File transfer:
wetransfer

Maps:
openstreetmap

VPN:
protonvpn

Please help with other tools; the more, the better!

Has anyone preserved the 4K restoration of It's a Wonderful Life released digitally a couple months ago? I haven't been able to find it on any of the usual sites (granted, I'm not on Blu). Is there an opportunity here to mux an even better preservation with original audio?

Just curious, thanks!

Another great artificial intelligence/deep learning example of inpainting - actually the best I'm aware of!

https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intell...g-accuracy

You can also try it yourself here:

https://www.nvidia.com/research/inpainting/

I don't know if this is the proper board to post this, but it has to do with Twin Peaks.
I used a remastered clip from the official bluray set, and compared it to one DVD release.
I noticed that the masking was different between the sets, among other details, the timing for one scene in particular seemed to be slightly different, enough to where the audio wasn't in sync.
I have this weird habit of wanting to overly SD footage over it's HD in iMovie.

On the topic of Star Trek, for TOS, is there a LUT available that would give me the colors present on the prior DVD releases?
There seems to be a big difference between the colors in the DVD and the remaster, probably due to LCDs having a different type of backlight in comparison to a CRT.

My preferred video standard from here on out is x265 with an honorable mention of x264 as my other preferred video streaming format.
My question, what is the quality like for converting VC-1 content to x265?
Would it be better to convert the VC-1 content to prores before converting to x265, in order to avoid degradation?
Also, are there any methods of audio upscaling?