I've been comparing the three BD releases of Watership Down.

Criterion (Region A)
Video: AVC
Audio: PCM (24 bit)

DE (Unten am Fluss)
Video: VC-1
Audio: DTS-HD MA 2.0 (24 bit)

UK
Video: AVC
Audio: AC-3 2.0@224kbps

Video
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The German disc is known to have had DNR applied, so the Criterion wins there.  At present, I'm not sure how the UK fares in comparison, but perhaps it's somewhere in the middle.  The UK and DE have more picture information on the top and the bottom (1.78:1 vs 1.85:1).

Audio

This quotation comes from the leaflet in the Criterion booklet. It's quoted in the Blu-ray.com review.

Quote:The original stereo soundtrack was remastered at 24-bit from a 35mm magnetic track. Clicks, thumps, hiss, hum, and crackle were manually removed using Pro Tools HD, AudioCube's integrated workstation, and iZotope RX 4.

I think it could be useful to start a thread where to post an alert about an open sign-up of a private torrent tracker; it happens sometimes, so let's share info here - and be quick, as usually open sign-ups lasts a day or two!

I start:


https://torrenting.com

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)
  

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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?