BR / HDTV


Thanks to X5gb I made some quick comparison between the UK Blu-Ray and the HDTV version that X5gb has and here's some images. Now, they might not be the same exact frame but near enough.

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/129572

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/129573

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/129574

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/129575

HDTV seems dirtier, with less details and a bit yellow. Less crop though!
UK Blu-Ray is more cropped but with less dirt, more details than HDTV and what appears to be the correct colors. DNR'ed though, as many fans of this film know.

Another film that Paramount didn't bother give a modern and better treatment. At the moment, the DNR version on Blu-Ray is still the version with better colors, more details and what appears to be a better framing (at least to my eye).

Does anyone know if there is an HD version available of Bill Hicks' Revelations?
It's a stand up performance that I'm quite fond of and was hoping that it would make my archive.

Have you noticed that lately all websites ask (finally) to accept their cookies? Well, I discovered that, even if many allow you to NOT accept some intrusions in your privacy (like ads), others says, basically "accept (what?) or you can't view our content"!

So, time to start to use tools better suited to protect your (our) privacy - well, if you can always trust them!

Browser:
brave

Internet search:
duckduckgo
google (via startpage)

Social Network:
mewe

Chat:
threema
signal

Video:
vimeo
youtube & others (via duckduckgo)

Email:
protonmail

File transfer:
wetransfer

Maps:
openstreetmap

VPN:
protonvpn

Please help with other tools; the more, the better!

Has anyone preserved the 4K restoration of It's a Wonderful Life released digitally a couple months ago? I haven't been able to find it on any of the usual sites (granted, I'm not on Blu). Is there an opportunity here to mux an even better preservation with original audio?

Just curious, thanks!

Another great artificial intelligence/deep learning example of inpainting - actually the best I'm aware of!

https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intell...g-accuracy

You can also try it yourself here:

https://www.nvidia.com/research/inpainting/

I don't know if this is the proper board to post this, but it has to do with Twin Peaks.
I used a remastered clip from the official bluray set, and compared it to one DVD release.
I noticed that the masking was different between the sets, among other details, the timing for one scene in particular seemed to be slightly different, enough to where the audio wasn't in sync.
I have this weird habit of wanting to overly SD footage over it's HD in iMovie.

On the topic of Star Trek, for TOS, is there a LUT available that would give me the colors present on the prior DVD releases?
There seems to be a big difference between the colors in the DVD and the remaster, probably due to LCDs having a different type of backlight in comparison to a CRT.

My preferred video standard from here on out is x265 with an honorable mention of x264 as my other preferred video streaming format.
My question, what is the quality like for converting VC-1 content to x265?
Would it be better to convert the VC-1 content to prores before converting to x265, in order to avoid degradation?
Also, are there any methods of audio upscaling?

Are there any alternatives to Gigapixel by Topazlabs?

So I am attempting to do an edit of Titanic with a restoration of the Paramount logo and some light regrading of the color. I have attempted several times to import a Blu-ray rip into Premiere and keep coming up with errors.

If I import the MKV directly, I get these odd anomalies on random frames (almost like pixelation) that are not apparent when played back on the same shots in VLC or other players.

I tried converting the video to an intermediate like ProRes (422 HQ in this case) and instead of pixelation I get frame jumps.  Of course, these appear baked into the source so any encodes I do have the problem.  I even re-ripped the Blu-ray from scratch and had the same result, but on different frames.  Blu-ray plays back fine without issue and the mkv plays fine in VLC and other players again.

I'm beginning to think that Premiere is borked.  Anyone else ever have this issue?  This issue did not happen when working with 4K HEVC rips (Terminator 2 and the Matrix) that I worked on recently.

I'm curious, what do some of y'all think would be a decent candidate for a modern Cameron-esque 2D to 3D conversion. I don't know why, I just thought it'd be a little fun to talk about and make a resultant thread.

A movie I've thought would be really cool to see in 3D would be Dario Argento's Phenomena. Not only do I think it's one of Argento's most gorgeous movies with its Swiss landscapes, but there are many shots and scenes that would make prime material for conversion, many of which due simply to how the movie was shot (such as the extensive use of macro-shots of insects). Plus, let's be real, that slow-motion window death scene would be cool to see in 3D.