Sometimes ... with the cursor at the end of a word, I try to backspace (to remove & retype some text) -- but nothing happens. The cursor doesn't move and the text doesn't delete. However, I can SHIFT-BACKARROW to highlight the text and then type over it. This happens randomly (I never notice any leading events that consistently trigger it) and it doesn't happen often. After I work around it, backspacing behaves normally again.

To whoever, happy hunting.

Wow,never knew this forum existed. Found out at originaltrilogy. Tons of stuff here I'm interested in by scanning the forums, nice! The Good Bad Ugly restoration on OT was what brought me here. I will be reading lots!

Plenty of TV shows on DVD have had their releases affected in some way by music issues. I think the ones that stick out to me like a sore thumb are 21 Jump Street, The Muppet Show, I'm Alan Partridge, Only Fools and Horses, Sesame Street, Doctor Who, and Open All Hours. Anyone else know any TV shows dragged down by music rights, and where to find uncensored copies that can then be synced up to the general release versions as applicable?

Far from home: The adventures of yellow dog (1995).
Maybe an upscale or webrip.

Too many projects to complete, so I've decided to do only movie-related ones, and left the unfinished extras out... but I'm sad, because they have some interesting material not found anywhere else.

So, if there is someone with technical abilities to release a proper DVD with custom menus, AND willing to finish one or more of them, please let me know.

The ones that I'd like to see finished are (from the most important):

The Arrival
Cube 2: Hypercube
Supernova
Usavich
The Thing

I have also few material related to my other projects that could be used as well.

Waiting for your replies!

After reading about a DVD-quality restoration project for "Robotech: The Movie" undertaken by an OT user called "heartbreaker", I figured I should take things to the next level by doing a restoration in full 1080p HD. I have no illusions whatsoever that it'll be easy, but that's never stopped me before, so I'll do whatever it takes to make a 1080p restoration of a true Cannon film (as labeled by the great Menahem Golan, may he rest in peace).

LIST OF EARLY DVD MASTER DATES

Hey, I couldn't let Andrea have all the fun with master lists, now, could I? But being more serious, I felt I needed to do my part in guiding my fellow restorers to the right media for (potentially, anyway) the right materials, including original audio tracks and perhaps even open matte presentations (for those films shot flat, anyway) or color grades. In any case, the below is a growing list of master dates for the DVDs of old.

12 Monkeys (1997, Widescreen) (Germany - Concorde Video) - January 27, 1997
Amadeus (1997, side A) (USA - Warner) - November 19, 1997
Amadeus (1997, side B) (USA - Warner) - November 21, 1997
Army of Darkness (1997/98) (Germany "Die Armee der Finsternis" - EuroVideo) - November 11, 1997
Blade Runner: The Director's Cut (1999, widescreen) (Germany - Warner) - July 26, 1999
Blade Runner: The Director's Cut (1997, fullscreen) (USA - Warner) - February 7, 1997
Blade Runner: The Director's Cut (1997, widescreen) (USA - Warner) - February 15, 1997
Blazing Saddles (1997, fullscreen) (USA - Warner) - May 23, 1997
Blazing Saddles (1997, widescreen) (USA - Warner) - May 23, 1997
The Devil's Advocate (1998) (USA - Warner - release with unaltered Sculpture Artwork) - February 11, 1998
The Doors (1997, THX-certified) (USA - Live) - July 25, 1997
Eric Clapton: Unplugged (1997) (USA - Warner Reprise) - July 31, 1997
Escape from New York (1998) (Germany "Die Klapperschlange" - Constantin Video) - February 7, 2036!?!?!?
The Fifth Element (1998) (Germany, BMG) - February 7, 2036 (again!?)
Goldfinger (1997, THX-certified) (USA - MGM/UA) - September 25, 1997
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1998) (USA - MGM/UA) - December 5, 1997
Goodfellas (1997, side A) (USA - Warner) - February 19, 1997
Goodfellas (1997, side B) (USA - Warner) - February 20, 1997
The Great Escape (1998) (USA - MGM) - February 26, 1998
Hang 'Em High (1997, fullscreen) (USA - MGM/UA) - October 16, 1997
Hang 'Em High (1997, widescreen) (USA - MGM/UA) - October 16, 1997
Michael (1997) (USA - Warner) - May 1, 1997
The Road Warrior (1997, fullscreen) (USA - Warner) - February 17, 1997
The Road Warrior (1997, widescreen) (USA - Warner) - February 17, 1997
RoboCop (1997) (USA - Orion) - September 19, 1997
Terminator (1998) (France - TF1) - October 30, 1998
Terminator (1998) (Germany - MAWA - FSK 16) - September 7, 1998
Terminator (1998) (Germany - MAWA - FSK 18) - October 24, 1998
Terminator (1997) (USA - Hemdale) - July 26, 1997
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1998) (France - TF1 - Theatrical Cut) - November 26, 1998
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1998) (Germany - MAWA) - February 7, 2036 (very curious, indeed)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1997) (Japan - Pioneer - PIBF-1001) - October 23, 1997
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1997) (USA - Live) - September 16, 1997
Zombie - Dawn of the Dead (1998) (Germany - Argento Cut - German Title Credits - Laser Paradise - Full Frame) - September 22, 1998

The intention of this list is both as a history lesson and to educate my fellow restorers on when the original DVD masters were pressed, based on dates I found on my DVDs when I ran them through MakeMKV (not the best way to rip 1:1 copies of DVDs, trust me). Anyone with an old DVD from before 2002 is welcome to contribute dates they find on their discs.

NOTE: All of the above is based on my best guesses from existing information I could find either physically or digitally; I am in no way 100% certain that those dates mean what I think they mean. As I look through more discs with ancient masters and newer packaging, however, I'm starting to become more and more certain to the affirmative.

Some things just don't add up. I picked up some Warner Home Video DVDs dated 1997 at my local video store yesterday, but one of them, My Fellow Americans, had its master dated 2002 when I looked it up in MakeMKV! I know for sure Michael, another of the bunch, has a master date of 1997, and so I compared their inner rings and discovered a WAMO logo on the 2002 disc and no WAMO logo on the 1997 disc. And yet, both of them were dated 1997 on the packaging, and the 2002 disc looked exactly the same as it would've back in 1997! Extremely puzzling... this new development is going to make our search for discs with original masters quite a bit harder, especially since many of their flipper discs had the relevant area covered by an inner label.

I'll post a thread a bit later on with confirmed master dates for old DVDs based on what I presently have, and those newer masters don't count even if they're technically the same release, they have to have been mastered around the time of their release.