4k restoration of dawn of the dead 1978 [request]

This movie was never released on Blu Ray, but there are okay HDTVs and one WEB-DL that looks pretty similar. 

The HDTVs have the 448 kbps DVD 5.1 AC3 audio. The WEB-DL is a slight upgrade, with 640 kbps E-AC3 5.1. 

But, is there anything better out there? This is kind of a shame really, I think it's a fun movie. I know I once had a VHS tape of it. I don't know much about VHS, but I read there was some "HIFI" technology that was supposedly rather good? I have a good audio interface. Would some cheap HIFI VHS player allow me to get a good analogue capture of the audio? Would probably be Dolby Surround then I guess, which is fine by me.

Don't see any LDs out there.

Might have a Cinema DTS somewhere in the far depths of the internet? Probably not, as it's not really that popular a movie I guess, seeing as it doesn't even get a Blu Ray release. So strange.

DVDs all seem to have the 448kbps 5.1 AC3, or some rather low bitrate AC3 2.0.

I'm fairly certain I have NEVER gotten an email notification for new posts for threads I subscribe to with instant email notifications.

I've checked my settings here and my spam folder and I see nothing.

Anyone else run into this?

I was taking a look at the releases of Peter Pan again today. It struck me that while the Special Edition DVD is slightly better than most other versions, it is far from perfect.

Here are some SBS screenshots showing a simple dehalo.

I also tested adjusting the white balance since this transfer skews blue, but everything I tried made things look more yellow, not more white. Maybe someone has a suggestion for that.

The only version of Daredevil released so far on home media in HD is the Director's Cut (DC). This is a reconstruction of the Theatrical Cut (TC) using the Blu Ray as the main source, a high quality HDTV cap of the TC and the original TC DVD for the audio. 
5 frames were sourced from the R1 DVD to fill a gap caused by missing frames at a commercial break during the HDTV broadcast.

Video Sources: DC Blu Ray, HDTV TC cap, R1 TC DVD.
Video Synced To: R1 DVD
Audio Sources: DVD (various)

Release Format: MKV 1080p 15.4GB, Blu Ray compliant, Average Bitrate 18.9 Mb/s
Audio Tracks (1-5, Source Original R1 DVD):
1: English Dolby Digital 5.1 448kb/s 
2: English DTS 5.1 768kb/s
3: French Dolby Digital 2.0 192kb/s
4: Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 192kb/s
5: Director/Producer's Commentary, Dolby Digital 2.0 192kb/s 
6: Italian 5.1 (Source: Italian R2 DVD DTS, re-encoded to Dolby Digital 640kb/s)

'Bonus Track': English Cinema DTS 5.1 1536kb/s (Separate file to be muxed into MKV)

There is also a text 'Trivia Track' included from the DVD, please note that while this subtitle track is MKV compliant it is not Blu Ray compliant and tsMuxer will discard it.

Thanks: spoRv for the Italian Audio, Jetrell Fo for Cinema DTS files

Uploaded to MEGA. PM for links. As always, active members of the forum only.

(Edit: Added Cinema DTS)

This series of five PBS specials, broadcast between 1983 and 2001, tells fictional stories of the construction of fictional structures as grandiose as the real deals. The pentalogy is as follows:

• Castle (1983)
  
• Cathedral (1986)
  
• Pyramid (1989)
  
• Roman City (1994)
  
• Mill Times (2001)
  

Hello.

Might be a long shot, but would anyone happen to have access to a Cantonese track from a laserdisc of this title? Or does anyone know if it would sound better than the mono track from the Mei Ah Hong Kong-released DVD?

Cheers.

I remembered this older French movie yesterday. Dobermann from 1997. Never even got an English track.

Pretty stylish movie. Though, the Blu Ray colors look like crap. Just look at this mess:
http://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&a=0&d...33&i=1&l=0

I fantasized about regrading the Blu Ray to the DVD colors for a moment before I noticed that the highlights are hopelessly clipped on the Blu Ray.

Is anyone aware of an HDTV or something of that old master?

Thus far, every open matte release of the Sailor Moon movies I know of, even on DVD, has a rather distinct problem: ghosting. Same problem seen on many high-definition versions of Ghost in the Shell. What I want to see is a top-quality open matte version of each of the three movies, at the original 4:3 aspect ratio and without that damn ghosting, and if that means taking each frame from the HD releases and manually readding the image info at the top and bottom of the screen, so be it. Even if Andrea isn't the biggest fan of Sailor Moon (to put it lightly), I believe even he'd agree that it's a travesty to the Moonies in the videophile community that there's not yet a good open matte version of any of the movies out there, a travesty I, especially, believe can and should be fixed no matter how difficult and time-consuming it may appear.

At long last, restoration efforts are underway for Fistful of Dollars, the first of Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns. At present, audio tracks are being restored as best as possible; Italian, German (1965 and 1979 dubs), Castilian Spanish, and Japanese (1976 dub AFAICT) audio tracks now have a base mono FLAC master at 192 kHz/24-bit which I might refer to should any additional changes (such as anti-censorship) be made. Restoration of the French audio track is currently in progress; I've just finished the anti-censorship process and only have yet to sync the audio to the restored mono track included as part of a repack and restore the music cues at the start and at the end. English, Turkish, Hungarian, Mexican Spanish, and Portuguese track restorations are pending. My aim for the audio track restorations is to have as much consistency across audio elements as possible.

Preview links to the restored FLAC masters, screenshots, and cover art to come at a date to be determined.

In the meantime, here's a preliminary spec list for my restoration:

VIDEO
Resolution: 1080p (BD), 480p (NTSC DVD), 576p (PAL DVD)
Aspect ratios: 2.35:1, 1.33:1, and 1.78:1 (each on separate masters)

AUDIO
Italian (mono)
German (1965 dub) (mono)
German (1979 dub) (mono)
German (1979 dub) (Dolby Stereo 4.0: left, center, right, and surround)
Castilian Spanish (mono)
Japanese (1976 dub) (mono)
French (mono)
English (mono)
English (6-track: left, left-center, center, right-center, right, and surround)
English (Dolby Stereo SR 4.0: left, center, right, and surround)
Turkish (mono)
Hungarian (mono)
Mexican Spanish (mono)
Mexican Spanish (Dolby Stereo SR 4.0: left, center, right, and surround)
Brazilian Portuguese (mono)

SUBTITLES
English
English SDH
French
French SDH
German
German SDH
Spanish
Spanish SDH (Castellano)
Spanish SDH (Latino)
Italian
Cantonese
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
Greek
Hungarian
Japanese
Mandarin
Norwegian
Portuguese
Swedish
Turkish

The above spec list is not final, which is most true for the subtitles; I might have to drop some of the subtitle options, ultimately, and I have no illusions that I'll be able to get everything I want for this project. But I'll do my darnedest with what I do have.