I would like to start a series of releases that are all very simple- Using the untouched best HD video source, along with highest quality audio source (occasionally this will be substituted with an older track if extremely unpleasant changes have been made.) They will be sourced from Blu-ray and/or HD-DVD. If there is an HDTV stream that is very high quality, it may be considered (Raiders of the Lost Ark comes to mind).

They will all be BD-25s.

They will have matching Menus made in DVD Architect.

They will have a single video track and a single audio track (English, or original release language if no Dub is available), English subtitles in the case of Foreign Language films or foreign language portions.

I would like suggestions of films that you would like to see in this collection. Please include the preferred video and audio sources if able. You're also welcome to suggest films that simply have a very poor release, or haven't reached Bluray (but have an HD-DVD, D-VHS, or HDTV version).

In the occasion that the film/audio will not fit on a BD-25, a 3-pass placebo film x264 pass will be run on the video, which will be subsequently compared to the original and alternate sources to guarantee no quality loss.

Films I plan to include are:
The Thing (HD-DVD Sourced)
SW:The Phantom Menace (Schorman HDTV Sourced)
Multiple Pokémon Films (they're all a mess of different releases with different quality, audio options, etc.)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (Wowow Sourced, probably bluray audio)
Any HD-DVD without a Bluray release.

The BD has been released few weeks ago; according to this forum (http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=287188), it misses at least two frames, while HDTV misses 5 seconds.

Color grading is slightly different: http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/212472

Are these reasons enough to start a project? (apart obviously adding further audio/subs tracks)

As the title thread says really

We're there any Dolby Digital plus tracks out there on the HD-DVD format that contain any elements ripe for preservation?

Worth a thought?

Project Info
The Curse of Frankenstein's UK Blu-Ray release looks horrendous. Taken from the same IP created from separation masters as the old DVD, it looks very magenta-shifted and way too bright, particular for a gruesome horror film. Worst of all, the overall BD image is only slightly sharper than its SD counterpart.

This preservation removes the magenta cast and brings back the blues of the original photography, largely missing in the home video transfers. A trailer provided a reference to show the original's more saturated look, in keeping with other subsequent Hammer Horror films. With a very judicious amount of sharpening to top it off, the final result resembles my corrected Dracula '58 disc in terms of color and contrast.

The commercial UK BD is encoded at 24fps, an unusual format which causes issues with some Blu-Ray players; this custom BD has been normalized to 23.976fps, with the audio tracks having been slightly resynced (without any pitch shift) to fit.

Video

• UK BD - color-corrected to remove magenta cast, darkened, and very lightly sharpened.
   
  

• 2.0 LPCM English Audio
  
• 2.0 LPCM Commentary
   
  

List of project collections (in alphabetical order):

[Fundamental Collection] - spoRv

Itzalive Shadoe Masters™ - jerryshadoe

TAF Restored Masters - The Aluminum Falcon

unnamed collection - alleycat

Updated: 2020-04-07

looking for a color correction,contrast correction,and black crush removal for ghostbusters 1 and 2.

A HD version would be nice. Can this be preserved, it was released on DVD and not on BD.

Many of you guys and gals have probably seen this already on your travels but I thought I'd share this entertaining thread from Film-Tech:

http://www.film-tech.com/ubb/f16/t001428.html

A guy mentions his work on Home Theater Mixes and gets roasted for it  

At the end of it all, no one is any the wiser about anything.

In posting a rather humorous little video from YouTube, the default for inserting it into the post was for HTTP. Since FR upgraded to HTTPS, references (pictures, video) with HTTP: do not show the media, but only the links. With the defaults updated, they would at least serve as a warning for the unwary poster of the proper type to use. Perhaps adding some code to change any HTTP entry to HTTPS would work as well? (Keep in mind that while most website will respond to HTTPS, some do not support HTTPS, which would result in nothing or an error.)

There might be other instances, in different areas of the forum, that have not been updated to HTTPS defaults and probably those should be updated, too.

Or, as the Hungarian translation book would say, "I will not buy this record. It is scratched."  

I came across this ...

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