Like its companion film Flesh for Frankenstein, Blood for Dracula has never had a perfect HD release. The Australian Blu Ray is an upscale, the Japanese Blu Ray has optical censoring and the German Blu Ray was extremely limited, contained significant dirt + dust and had lossy audio.

The video source for this project is the German Blu Ray, with filters applied to remove most of the dirt and dust without touching the rest of the picture.

• 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 German Blu Ray with dust and dirt removal
  
• Original chapter stops used on the Criterion DVD
  
• English 1.0 Dolby Digital taken from the German Blu Ray
  
• English 2.0 DTS taken from the Australian Blu Ray
  
• Criterion audio commentary taken from the DVD
  
• English Subtitles
  
• Original Theatrical Trailer
  
• Still Gallery taken from the Criterion DVD
  

Like its companion film Blood for Dracula, Flesh for Frankenstein has never had a perfect HD release. The Australian Blu Ray is an upscale, the Japanese Blu Ray has optical censoring and the German Blu Ray was extremely limited, contained dirt + dust and had lossy audio.

The video source for this project is the German Blu Ray, with filters applied to remove most of the dirt and dust without touching the rest of the picture.

• 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 German Blu Ray with dust and dirt removal
  
• Original chapter stops used on the Criterion DVD
  
• English 1.0 Dolby Digital taken from the German Blu Ray
  
• English 2.0 DTS taken from the Australian Blu Ray
  
• Criterion audio commentary taken from the DVD
  
• English Subtitles
  
• Original Theatrical Trailer
  
• Still Gallery taken from the Criterion DVD
  

Hello everyone, I'm new one but from some times I love read and watch works from people who can't tolerate bad colors on our lovely movies.

I can't watch new version on BD my favorite movies like Aliens or Blade Runner , I hate teal I'm big DVD collector:

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipN-...ZmM3FUbnlB

But some time ago I discover versions of some my movies in fullscreen in Laserdisc, it is only LDRip but T2 Special Edition is one of best feelings when I watched (h264, 4 gb). But I wanna ask, if someone can help and rip laserdisc PAL of Predator 1987 in fullscreen???

Greetings

Soon I write more about my feelings about movies.

It's hard to think of any action film from the 80s and 90s that hasn't been lambasted by movie critics. Try finding a good review from a critic for an action movie that isn't Die Hard, ALIENS, Terminator, and some of the more high profile action movies. You'd have a better time trying to find bigfoot. Movies like Timecop, Last Action Hero, Cobra, Tango and Cash, etc. were not received well by movie critics. Even today action classics are described as "cheesy" and "dumb" by reviewers and critics. What are your thoughts? Do you think these movies deserve more respect?

Saw this on Facebook:

I'm involved in a run of fully assembled and flashed Domesday86 Duplicator kits: these can be used to directly digitize your LaserDisc media and even VHS tapes! You can find more information about how it works and what it is at https://www.domesday86.com/?page_id=74

We've a large number of slots open, so we're hoping to  be able to meet the demands of the community for not only kits, but also completely assembled, individual parts such as the LD-V4x00 calibration board, and DomesDay86 duplicator board.

Let me note that I'm open to having conversations on a individual basis for larger or special projects if other considerations need to be made: please contact me as opposed to staying silent!

Price List

$400 = 1x Fully assembled and programmed DomesDay86 kit (assembled and  soldered DdD board, FX3, DE0 FPGA, and LD-V4x00 calibration board)
$267 = 1x Fully soldered DomesDay86 duplicator board.
$130 = 1x Calibration board

Please note the following:
- We will ship anywhere locally or internationally (from the Pacific Coast of the US).
- Prices do not include shipping (we'll request a second payment for  shipping and materials once the package is ready to be sent to you).
- While we're trying to take weeks at most, please plan around not receiving a unit for several months.

-- Why such a long lead time?
We're setting expectations to give buffer time to the fine chap soldering and assembling all this so they don't burn out, stress out, or have a passion and hobby meant to help the community, turn into a chore. This is also meant to plan around further stoppages or slow downs in shipping from China due to the Coronavirus.

Please message me if you're Interested!

--Noah

PS This run has the blessing of Simon Inns (though he is not responsible for it nor involved in any way) who is the creator and primary developer of the DomesDay86 project. He also noted that "for a full  stack of boards ready-to-roll; it's a very reasonable price imho" See attached screenshot for further confirmation.

So I've started work on this project. Both of these movies have only been released on VHS and LD, the source for each is the LD with uncompressed audio. A fanres user kindly transferred the first movie from laserdisc, but the disc had some pretty bad laser rot in places. Been playing around with several manual and automatic filters and I'm pretty happy with it now. The picture has been zoomed slightly and re-centered to remove the black bars, cross colour and dot crawl removal, noise filter, dirt and laser rot clean and some sharpening. 

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Next stage is to work on Part 2, although that doesn't seem to have any laser rot. 

The plan is to produce a blu ray with both movies on, both with uncompressed English audio and Italian compressed audio, plus English subtitles and a few extra features like trailers.

Hello out there,
I am looking for the extended ABC Television cut of Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) which has over 20 minutes of footage. If anyone could help me out on getting this cut, that would be much appreciated!
Thanks,
J.C

Looking for a sci-fi series, I stumbled upon "The Orville". I remembered that it was a kind of Star Trek spoof, so I put it apart at the time, but I wanted to give it a chance this time.

And, well, it was great! It has all the good things Star Trek has, plus some comic relief and "normal" things we always asked ourselves (or, at least I did) like "does anyone go to the bathroom?" or "do they have sex usually, apart in very rare episodes?"

The comedy parts were very well dosed, and serious topics were threated in the right manner - a-la Star Trek. Quite some actors from the former show appeared as guest starts, plus famous stars like Charlize Theron, Rob Lowe, Liam Neeson.

SFX were mostly great, apart in very rare cases; acting was very good, music was right, stories mostly original.

A pretty perfect show that every sci-fi lovers must watch!

9/10

Could any of you please help to donate money to this person? He is working on Adywan's "Return of the Jedi: Revisited" fan edit, and he needs the money for a new camera that was stolen from him a few months ago. I would really appreciate it.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-my-camera-was-taken

While I usually prefer 2.35: 1 movies, especially when it's their original aspect ratio, I have a problem with this movie. On the DVD (Dutch edition) I had the 1.85: 1 open matte version, showing more vertically, then I did the blu upgrade, where we have 2.35: 1 and it turns out that framing quite often looks wrong. I have the impression that there is too much free space above, while below it is cut too much, and this can be felt especially in combat scenes in which sometimes kicks are hardly visible ...
This is probably the first film in which framing 2.35: 1 irritates me.

Comparison between 2.35:1 US Blu-ray and 1.78:1 dutch DVD:



The 2.35: 1 frame most of the time shows the top of the 1.78: 1 frame, which is generally pointless. Especially in shots with kicks.
Cropping even gives the impression of being auto-framed with a fixed frame position almost at the top, although sometimes in 2.35: 1 at the top we can see even more ...


Is there a HDTV version in 1.78:1 available? That's something that could be fixed by reframing the movie shot by shot as I did with Avengers, but I am not aware of proper HD source.