Hi Everyone! I just stumbled across this forum whilst looking into hard to find blu-ray films. I often find myself drawn to topics of differing film cuts, and regional edits so I am pumped to have found a place where I can learn more and join in on the discussion

I am not quite sure how I was not aware of this site until today, but boy am I glad that I found it!  There are so many exciting topics to discuss, and even more incredible work being done by members here.

The Life of Oharu (1952) - R5 Triumph Video DVD Synced to 2013 Criterion BD

The Criterion is pretty bad. Heavily filtered and sounds are often almost inaudible. The DVD is a quite a bit better.

Criterion BD Spectogram:  
Criterion BD Spectrum:

Triumph Video DVD Spectogram:
Triumph Video DVD Spectrum:

So the Conan movies are out for some time now in 4K from Arrow Video. Did anyone get them and can share some thoughts, Especially for the audio part of the movies.

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Hi all,

I just stumbled across this forum on a french one, oddly enough, and it seems there are buried treasures here. Glad to be here!

Cheers,

kareem7785

I stumbled upon this site looking for info on old Laserdisc audio tracks, i wasn't disappointed.

Audio comparisons:
Samples, RX Spectrogram, SoX Spectrogram, Spectrum Analyzer

Synced to Toho 4K UHD

Used audio from the German Blu-ray as the main track. It seems entirely unfiltered, and sounds great. There is a slight dropout at ~01:25:00, but it doesn't significantly impact the viewing experience and was left alone. The German Disc audio is synced manually.

Criterion commentary synced to the UHD about 8-10 edits/cuts were done to sync this 
BFI DVD commentary synced to the UHD about 10+ edits/cuts 
Classic Media commentary - this was done using silence as it was the only way, about 30 edits/cuts to get it inline.
JPN UHD commentary by default.

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My UB820 decided to go bad one month out of warranty. The disc tray will no longer open and close. I finally managed to get my disc out by moving the white plastic switch on the bottom and pulled the tray out. The disc was fine.
The player powers up and the tray will retract if open but never open on its own. All other functions work perfectly and if there's a disc in there it will play normally-just never come out again. I've dug around and seen others with the same problem. It's apparently the drive or belt under the disc tray that goes bad and can be repaired....but I can't remove the tray inside because of this one darn ribbon cable attaching it.

Has anyone dealt with Panasonic player repair or UHD player quirks like this? I really don't want to send this off to the third party repair shop or buy another one I can't currently afford. This is becoming a more prevalent and known issue which is super infuriating.

Hello FR community

Criterion UHD has released the UHD of the Apu Trilogy, not going to go in much detail about the PQ as the topic is about the audio.
well then, lets get started...

Got all the possible sources to compare
- Criterion UHD / Criterion BD / Angel DVDR / Artificial Eye / Columbia Star DVDR / WEB-DL

Criterion UHD:
A lot of the folks would not notice this at first, but the audio from Criterion and it previous versions (1080p)/DVD is cleaned. The NR is so damn high that it actually removes the bass and certain audibility. Looks like the Criterion Team just ran a Spectral repair tool and got this done without caring about the loss.
Usually with post processing, applying filters for hiss/hums/cracks & pops, without carefully doing it "line by line", there always is some form of loss - in this case it is quite significant..

Other Sources:
All the other Sources except Artificial Eye mentioned above are very similar to Criterion NR version of this audio, where as Columbia star being "minutely" better than the CC/WEB versions available online.

Artificial Eye
This is the only source which is unfiltered, it is so that the Noise (cracks, pops, hiss, etc...) present on this audio is very high,  but the integrity of every audio aspect related to this movie is very intact in its pure form.
- Sure I could have post processed it somehow without any one knowing and call it a day, But that probably would not have been the right thing
- The syncing of this is a pain in the ass, but this is not a big deal as it can be done. (I am half way through it).
- The AE audio sound like watching on CRT TV back in the day in its original form with a decent amounts of noise, folks from the region can relate to this to a certain extent

Linked a comparison below of a significant score which involves around the religious belief.

Here is a sample between the contenders - https://qiwi.gg/file/dBZe8715-test

Spectrograms:
AE - https://i.slow.pics/nYz4iRyn.png
CC - https://i.slow.pics/bFXiUN2o.png

50 % done in sync