Some of you may have noticed, but there have been problems with e-mail notifications (account activations, PM responses etc.) during the last week or so. This was the final nail in the coffin of the current hosting provider for me, so I'll be looking to change it as soon as possible.

It will most likely happen on this Saturday, or Sunday. During the process, some people will keep seeing old instance of the forum, since DNS changes can take 24 hours to propagate, sometimes even more. To avoid people posting to this old instance (and these posts not being moved to new instance), it will be completely locked with some kind of information message. Hopefully the new service will be better.

Here's an article about it: https://outline.com/4qn3VX

Someone bought those tapes from the NASA decades ago and now it's being auctioned off to the public. Have to say I'm happy they still exist, but also sad that there's no guarantee that whoever buys it will do a proper restoration and make it available to the public. I sure hope the guy owning them made a good digital copy of them before this auction, otherwise I have to say it's kind of irresponsible to do this.

The auction itself: https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/...?locale=en

What do you think, guys, can we raise the money?

Hi guys,

I have a bunch of tapes I would like to digitize on the mac and share.

I have a pristine VCR, all I need it seems is a video capture dongle (rca or other to USB)

Anyone could advise me on what to buy?

THX

Hello,

A few weeks ago, i found out, totally by accident the existence of the 35mm preservations...(fantastic thing by the way).
And then,by doing some research about it, i found out about all the amazing fan projects of all sorts, i had no idea existed. (i just knew about fanedits, but there is so much more.)
I spent quite some time the last few weeks between this board and ot.com, and i'am still amazed at the amount of quality work existing in this community.

I very much love movies in general, but i much prefer 80's and 90's movies...there were, in my opinion so much better than what we have these days...and that's the ones i grew up with so i think that count a lot in my appreciation...

For the moment,i don't have anything to contribute, as i don't have the skills or knowledge that some have around here, but i thought it would be nice to register and participate, and who knows one day contribute...

Thank you, and see you on the board!

Hello everyone,

a friend of mine has been capturing LDs for quite some time now, but for now he's been using the analogue-out and captures at 48 kHz, 16 bit.
Now we're looking into options to "upgrade" the system for a bit-perfect capture, but we have no idea what we'd need to buy, which software to use, what settings etc.

First of all the LD-player is a Pioneer DVL-909 (the European model), I guess that should be OK. What else do we need now for a bit-perfect capture?

Thanks in advance!

Hi all,

Trying to find a capture device I can use for VHS as well as Sky TV programs and potentially Amazon/Netflix etc. Ideally something portable and not too expensive (within reason!)

Was looking at the Elgato HD S but wanted to see what everyone’s thoughts are?


Thanks

Goal is a little blanket 35mm regrade again, with Cinema DTS synced (the latter is already done). I started doing it with these pics I got off of ebay but half way through the process I got a little suspicious. The framing is remarkably similar to that of the Blu Ray and rather clean and also hard matted. So my question is, do these look like real 35mm pics to you guys or more like a scam? Because the guy selling those seems to be selling thousands of them constantly, of course saying they are real, but I'm wondering. The soundtrack is also rather bright. The colors also look kind of low-contrast, which could imply a Blu Ray source.



For comparison, I found some other ones and at least some seem to have rounded edges and a little more believable colors, as far as that is recognizable in the bad pictures, and all of them seem to have a darker soundtrack and are a bit more contrasty, though that could admittedly just be the result of an inferior photographing technique.




Thoughts? Just don't want to waste time doing a regrade to a Blu Ray, heh.

I'm told that the Japanese LD is the only disc that had digital sound. Does anyone happen to have it? I'm actually doing a reconstruction of the theatrical version and, although I know this isn't the theatrical version, I would hope that it would be more faithful than the 5.1 DVD/BD.

Anyone?

AMD come back with great CPUs, and quite good GPUs...

If someone here thinks about getting new CPU and/or GPU, I'd take AMD in serious consideration - actually, I'd buy their CPU for sure, best price/quality ratio at the moment, while I'd wait for few weeks for GPU.

Opinions?