I was watching Creepshow this week and something is seriously off with the stereo track. Some of the music and effects are way too loud and the vocal volumes vary like crazy. This doesn't sound like a mix from the 80s, more like a modern one.

Apparently the original theatrical mix is stereo but dvdcompare states that the French and Scandinavian DVD releases had English mono tracks. Does anyone have these? And do they suffer the same dynamics as the stereo?

So since my beloved xbr960 is still out and my 955 has the fried hdmi I've been looking for a used plasma to be my main TV since I can't afford an OLED. The only trouble is that I can't find a good late Panasonic and when I do they go for several hundred dollars which could buy a brand new 4k tv like a TCl or I could save a bit more and get a small 4K TCL p series etc. with HDR.
My question is, would I be better off with a midgrade 4K set or a plasma? I know legacy stuff won't look so hot so I've got the 955 for that, but in terms of 720p and up can a midgrade 4k led do relatively well?

I was really hoping to find a plasma to match or surpass my xbr960 and I'm aware that plasmas still handle motion far better than even OLED can.

Of course I'd love to just go and get a refurbed Epson 1080p HT projector for now.

This project is canceled since I remember this movie is terrible and I didn't want to waste the time.

As anyone worked on Solo yet? I was trying to watch it and I think the picture needs a lot of work.

Putting aside the quality of the movie, the video is absolutely the worst looking movie that I have seen in a long time. I'm fine with the movie looking dark, that was one of the common complaints, but everything else about the picture looks terrible. The blacks are gray and muddy, there is next to no contrast, the colors are terribly muted even when they are meant to stand out (blues or reds) and there is a horrible vignetting across most of the film.

It's almost as they took the RAW files out of the camera and did nothing with them. I expect that of youtube videos but not a multi million dollar film. Even one with as much trouble as this one had.

Even without changing the colors, some small tweaks like adjusting black levels, using curves, upping saturation, shadow work, etc, can make a big difference. You can get a much better picture.

BD/Tweak

I remember something about different versions of Titanic:
HDTV 2.39:1 pre-2012
HDTV open matte pre-2012
HDTV 2.39:1 and/or 2.25:1 cut/TV versions
BD 2.39:1 post-2012
BD 3D open matte post-2012
Q2 extended edition 2.39:1 (using BD for TC and extended/deleted scenes)

Personally, I do not care about cut/TV versions, but I think it would be nice to have an extended edition that would use pre-2012 open matte HDTV as main source (eventually using YAO to conform to 2.39:1).

And, what's about color grading for all versions? Are the deleted scenes "tealized"?

Here's a quick and dirty project: I've synced the Crtiterion Mono audio, courtesy of Sporv's release, to the new 4K Blu-ray. All it involved was adding some silence to the beginning, and voila! We now have the proper theatrical audio, which was mistakenly omitted from the new release, which includes a fold-down of the surround track instead of the original mono.

My file is a .wav and can easily be muxed with the 4K video. This played flawlessly via Plex on my TV and should play fine on pretty much everything.

Uploaded to MEGA, PM for links. Will only send to active members, as per usual around these parts.

2021 Update v2: User Croweyes1121 has created a sync of this audio for the Shout! Factory release that correctly syncs with that release's 24fps presentation, rather than requiring an adjustment to 23.976fps like my original version. This is the version I'll offer now, as it is obviously preferable, since you don't have to sacrifice the other audio tracks/commentaries to use it. Thanks Croweyes1121!

I love movies. 

I also love fan reconstructions and restorations as well! So i'm happy to be here and to 
help out in the future. As an avid reader of this website i finally made an account to show 
how much i care about the way movies should be presented.

Bye 4 now.

Flash Gordon Regrade (Widescreen Laserdisc v1.0)

Project Info:

See the origins of this project here:

https://fanrestore.com/thread-1910.html

This project attempts to regrade they Universal BD to the brighter and more colorful Universal laserdisc. The laserdisc was slightly desaturated (since it’s origins are the NTSC world), skin tones also pulled down and black levels adjusted to bring the video in line with modern standards. That corrected video was used to regrade the BD.

Another future version might use the Image DVD as a basis of the project. The Dvd is the same master as the LD but hopefully with better levels and values.

Note: synced to the US Universal BD

Video:
Universal BD regraded to match the widescreen Universal laserdisc

Audio:
1. PCM 2.0 Dolby Surround (from the widescreen Laserdisc at original 44.1khz)
3. DTS-HD MA 5.1 (from the Universal BD)
4. PCM 2.0 Internet Commentary by Sam Jones and Melody Anderson

Pics:

MKV Pics (Final):


Old Pics

Regraded BD


US BD/BD regraded to LD



Contributors and Thanks:
Zoidberg - for the LD video and audio cap
Chewtobacca - for the PCM sync

Do any Of You have the Laserdisc PCM of the 1978 movie The Wiz? The Remastered DVD and Blu-Ray only have a 5.1 Remix, and the 1998 DVD has a 4.0 Dolby Digital Track, but I would like to sync the Original Dolby Stereo Mix to the Blu-Ray.

If only I still lived in California...
If only I weren't days late to the very last IMAX 70mm screening even remotely available in my area...
If only the re-release extended to any theater even within my state...

...Damn. You have one of those moments in the fresh wake of a missed opportunity when you realize that you're not going to get a chance again.
Feels bad.

Dunno if this is the proper place to be asking...

Is there any way to remove watermarks? I have a handful of copies of "Pink Floyd – The Wall", some with intermittent watermarks, some without. Of course, this issue would be a phantom of a less fortunate reality if the higher-quality copies were spared the persistent emblem, but here I am. What tools do I have at my disposal to do away with them?