theres a lot of these tracks on HDTV releases a lot of them sound just as good as laserdisc audio
ffistful of dollars and  magnificent seven have the original mono and they  sound 10x better than the 5.1 and a lot better than 192kps ac3

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Yeah I know, not the best film but I enjoy it for what it is. Let me explain.

So I've been fixing my NAS for months (lost two HDDs) and was going through the list of movies and saw my rip of Phantoms. I bought the budget BD long ago since it was $5 and I have fond memories of watching the movie late, late at night with my brother almost 20 years ago   That and I enjoy a simple but well done B sci-fi movie especially one a bit derivative of The Thing.

I wanted to watch the movie but found it lacking in the video department. So, like any good fanres member I had to fix it first before I watched it.

I converted the 1080i video (clearly a broadcast master) back to 1080p/23.976. The BD was also framed at 1.77 and I slightly letterboxed it back to a theatrical 1.85. The video has that nasty pink/magenta blanket applied to it. I checked the old DVD (which is from a LD master) and the trailers and noticed they didn't have that look and that both appeared more green and yellow. I matched that look but didn't go as far yellow as to keep the titles and credits more pure white.

I don't expect a lot of interest given its a junky movie but this is one of a few small, one-off projects that I'm going to put out in the next few months in between the "real" projects. Probably only will be shared here and not on a share site.

Video:
The US BD IVTC'd back to 23.976, letterboxed to 1.85 and regraded to better match the DVD and trailer.

Audio:
1. DTS-HD MA 5.1 from the BD

Pics:

MKV Pics (Final)

Suddenly, my 1TB external hard disk started to "tick tick" and disappeared from resources... never touched, dropped, shacked, nothing... but it's dead... obviously is not the cable - but I tested it nevertheless... it can't be the interface, but I'm ready to open it and connect it directly to the PC...

Last resources? Freezing trick? Something else? I'm desperate... the first dead disk, in what? twenty years? and it's not the most used - at the contrary, the less used of all...

I've discovered lately that MPC-BE introduces strange artefacts sometime - nasty big blocks of a single color; at first, I thought it was due to my direct-lit LED TV, but I tried another player (SMPlayer) and those blocks aren't there... it occurs usually in fast movements, fast changing frames, it's repeatable, and it happens also using different renders...

So, which is the purest free software video player, the one which doesn't introduce artefacts, which has the colors as they should be; the one that outputs perfectly what's on disc or file... and, which render to use?

Another less-than-masterpiece-but-a-guilty-pleasure-for-someone scifi flick which suffer of the dreaded teal&orange syndrome on BD: https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&a=0&...17&i=8&l=0

Not that BD colors are that bad - indeed, they are more vibrant and alive, but the question is, are these colors more theatrical accurate than the DVD ones? Don't know, but to have an alternative is better than not have it IMHO... still, a poll is set, say your opinion!

A note: the Italian DVD I got is the one with more image, so it should be the best version to use as color reference.

Options:
Cinema DTS track
LD DTS, AC3, PCM tracks

Not only the BD has a different color grading - pinker on BD, and more "theatrical" IMHO on DVD, as the following:

https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?d1=4227&d2=4228&c=1740

but I've made a creepy discovery: it has "enanched CGI", 'a la' Star Wars - Han Solo defreezing from carbonite, in particular!!! (top DVD, bottom BD)



Still don't know if any other shot is affected, but to me, this is enough (along with different color grading) to proceed!

Options:
Cinema DTS track
LD DTS track
LD AC-3 track
open matte version

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/212658 (deleted by the website)

https://diff.pics/6ElVQnasv6Z2/1 (new comparison)

Opinions?

An open-matte/no logo version of the extended cut of The Abyss was shared last month on The 'Spleen... I recently got to thinking that it would be really cool to have the LD PCM audio synced up with this version of the film.

I do have the Special Edition LD (this one: http://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/04429/1988...al-Edition), but do not have any way to capture the audio or to sync it. (My computer is VERY old. )

Does anyone out there have any interest in capturing/syncing the audio with the HDTV version?

Hi I'm Zong new here found the site looking for some stuff on google. Thought I'd introduce myself. Liking the site's posts so far some cool info on films and the craziness of what happens from filming to what goes to disc/digital format. I like seeing all the stuff people do to enhance the movies they love so well to do better then what we are forced to buy. I plain on stayin around for awhile read topics and mite comment sometimes.
Thanks
Zong

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Despite receiving a 4K restoration from its original camera negative, On Her Majesty's Secret Service looks fairly problematic on Blu-Ray - pushed to magenta with far too cool a color temperature, desaturated, and with highlights radically blown out. Still, with some color correction, the 4K restoration was more than salvageable.

This preservation removes the magenta cast and aims for a warmer, more saturated look. More importantly, the blown out areas have been mostly recovered. Overall, the color-corrected image is a lot more balanced, allowing one to really appreciate the detail of the 4K restoration. The old pre-restoration US DVD and LD were used as rough references, but, as we've seen from 007 Dossier's 35mm trailer transfers, those transfers also were not exactly representative of how the film looked in theaters. The opening beach sequence, singled out in particular for color correction, no longer has a blanket blue tint and looks more like dawn, as it had before.

Aurally, this uses the LD audio track, which is much better than both the revisionist, badly balanced 5.1 DTS-HD remix and the highly compressed and noise reduced mono available on the Blu-Ray.

Specific attention has also been given to both the opening credits and closing credits. The opening is no longer squeezed to be windowboxed and can be seen in the same aspect ratio as the rest of the film. The closing credits, tinted a complete blanket blue tint, on the Blu-Ray, has had its colors restored using the chroma of an earlier master.

*Note that a new 4K restoration may have screened in select theaters and even aired a few times on MGM HD. This preservation still uses the old 4K restoration available on BD as its basis.*

Video

• US BD - color-corrected to remove magenta/blue bias, highlights recovered
   
  

• 2.0 LPCM English Mono Audio (from US Laserdisc)
  
• 2.0 AC3 Commentary