Hello guys!

I need to digitalize some old analog music tapes (some audio dramas), but I have no clue on how to do that to obtain the best possible quality.
I know there are some cheap digitalizer you can buy from Amazon or someplace else, but the record quality is absolute crap, in my opinion... they are just compressed mp3 files.

Do you have any idea how I can achieve the best possible quality, preferable in a lossless format? I think the best way would be to buy an old tape deck... but then what? Which connection setup is needed? And which software transfers the input sound in lossless format?

I hope anyone here has some experiences on this field and could help me out

Greetings

Is it down at the moment.

I have numerous laserdiscs and original dvds , I would like to restore . I have been playing with software for years . I would like to ask if anybody has any suggestions for a good capture devise to transfer laserdisc to my computer. I do dvd upgrades all the time to blu ray but have stumped by poor transfer quality of laserdisc to dvd. Also where do you find the torrents or downloads?

Usually I use MPV as main player - it seems to have the best quality overall - but for testing purpose I use MPC-BE, for several reasons:

• you can go to a given frame number
  
• display more info on the video
  
• have mediainfo included
  
• let me grab screenshots without annoying play bars on bottom (as MPV often does)
  
• important: can play avs files!
  

I use IMDB daily, for everything - synopsys, list of actors, technical data etc. - but it would be nice to have an alternative; TMDB is nices and cleaner, but with a lot less info...

Any other suggestion?

I've been researching for a new monitor for some time now but can't seem to nail down a particular one for my needs in the $100-150 range. I was thinking IPS is a must for any of our site work but I would like a lowered input lag model as when I plugged my PS4 into an older Dell TN (st2410) panel at work once I was floored by how fantastic the gaming experience was. So then I thought about getting one of these newer TN panels that have increased color to better match IPS panels...but it seems every model I look at has negatives.

Does anyone here have experience in monitor shopping? I'm looking for a 24 to 27 inch monitor that is 1080p or above.

Finally I have finished it! Still not 100% perfect, due to poor sources, but I can say I'm really satisfied with the final version!

Here you can find a small SD version (640x360) encoded with x265 ultrafast, English AC-3 5.1; its purpose is to present a complete movie in UAR, and get some feedbacks!

Of course the final version will be 1080p, with a grain plate, and many audio and subs tracks, as usual.

Waiting for your opinions.

Well,
I'm not sure if you know all the controversy about this film on Bluray and how hideous the transfer looks with a blue tint all over.
(some people didn't have a problem though and insisted it was the correct color).

Now, according to this poster, MoviesAnywhere features a new HD transfer with corrected colors, which surely looks much better without the blue tint, and proves how wrong was the bluray!

http://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=...tcount=367

I don't use digital services and such stuff (i wouldn't be able even if I wanted to).
So, does anyone happen to have this version?

So I'm trying to encode a 5.1 DTS track using Surcode from six mono AIFF files. The resulting DTS file is perfectly fine - the channels are mapped correctly, it syncs when muxed with video, etc.

But when I pop it into MediaInfo, it's saying the bit depth is 24-bit, whereas my source material is all 16-bit. I've tried everything I can with Surcode and eac3to to get a 16-bit output file, but no matter what it always reads as 24-bit.

So in Googling around for advice or info, I came across a few people who insist that bit depth is irrelevant for lossy codecs, so whether MediaInfo reads as 16- or 24-bit shouldn't matter. But then others have been saying that standard 48kHz DTS reading as 24-bit is incompatible with various programs and players they've used.

So does anyone have any advice on this? How can I force a 16-bit output DTS file? Can I patch the 24-bit DTS file to read as 16-bit without reencoding again and degrading quality (under the assumption that bit depth *is* irrelevant for lossy codecs)? Does it even matter?

I would like to replace the following logo from a project I'm working on:
   

It's the typical "zoom out" thingy starting among those "skyscrapers" with the camera moving out to show this logo.

Not sure if it's possible to see in the screenshot, but the one I have has frame blending across all the masters I tried, which is very ugly.

Does anyone know of a version without the frame blending that I could use? HD of course. Film scan or Blu Ray source, doesn't matter, but ideally it's 16:9 or has a framing such that I can zoom in to show the same area as here.