I was hoping that Live Wire starring Pierce Brosnan had received an upgrade from its VHS and early 2000 DVD releases but still no blu ray exists worldwide. I know... it's not Die Hard, right?  
However, I did find out that iTunes (US store) has a 1080p MPEG-4 AVC version available
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http://www.blu-ray.com/itunes/Live-Wire-iTunes/12953/
https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/live-wire/id307084825
Not that I know what to make of an iTunes copy once purchased, I'm not web download-savvy. If anyone knows, it would be nice to bring it out of iTunes limbo.

A couple of Movies from Christopher Nolan have changing aspect ratios. Some of us don’t like them and getting the movies in their OAR in HD was impossible. Well, at least I thought so. A few weeks ago I got The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises and Interstellar from the iTunes Movie Store. Low and behold all three movies are in OAR. But since the bitrate of these releases is rather low, I wondered if it’s possible to recreate the OAR using those movies as a guide with the Blu-ray releases.

I actually attempted this a couple of years ago with The Dark Knight and this was way to tedious, as the picture needed a shot by shot adjustment. I don’t have the patience for those kinda adjustments, nor do I have a PC that can re-encode HD movie in a reasonable amount of time. But if someone wants to jump into that boat for this project, if this is even fully possible, let me know. I can then provide the 1080p iTunes versions for the project.

This is something that drives me nuts!

You get a project *AWESOME* and then you see it's in zip, 7z, rar or what not and it takes FOREVER to uncompress. The reason for this are wrong settings when "compressing" these files. Compressing a WAV file is fine, as it actually will save you storage. Compressing a Blu-ray is just a waste of time. You may a few MB, but it will take extremely long to compress and later uncompress it, even on a SSD.

So please, just use RAR and set it to "No Compression". The rar/unrar process will so much faster. People can enjoy your projects much earlier and wont need to take a lunch break for the uncompressing to finish.

Thanks

Hi everyone.  Happy Wednesday.  I have been working on a project and I would like to share it with the community, but I am not really sure where and if it qualifies.  I did attempt to upload it to the spleen, but it is not exactly a fan edit or preservation.  Basically it boils down to my love of old black and white Noir films.  I have taken some of my favorite films and created stripped down iso's in black and white to replicate the classic Noir feel.  My first five films are done, the first being No Country For Old Men, in my opinion a perfect Neo-Noir film from the Cohen brothers.  So the list looks like this:

No Country For Old Men
Unforgiven
Minority Report
The Game (1997)
Raiders of the Lost Ark

And admittedly, Raiders may not be 100% Noir, but it looks badass as a black and white film.  Anyway so that is my question/request.  Any input would be welcome and I have included a quick shot as an example.

Thanks!

The 7 part documentary begins here . .

Public Radio International - Spielberg director talks about Spielberg, the director

PRI - Spielberg director talks about Spielberg, the director Wrote:For almost 40 years, the director Steven Spielberg has been one of the primary architects of the modern Hollywood movie experience. This story is based on a radio interview. Listen to the full interview. download audio interview There’s no better fellow director to examine his career than Susan Lacy. Since 1986, she’s been exploring the work of legendary artists for the PBS series “American Masters.” Recently, she left PBS and completed her first documentary for HBO: “Spielberg,” an in-depth look into Steven Spielberg’s life and career. Susan Lacy explains why the “E.T.” and “Jaws” director’s work endures, how she got never-before-seen footage of Spielberg hanging out with Martin Scorsese, Brian DePalma and George Lucas and reveals behind-the-scenes stories that didn’t make the final cut.

Is anyone aware of a HD copy of the original Russian version of this movie? There is a DVD available, but all the Blu Rays seem to be the "International Cut", which is shorter (missing some scenes/storylines). It also apparently misses animated subtitles from the original, and - which is worse - a prologue that is completely in English even on the Russian audio track. 

I guess it was never released, but maybe there's an HDTV copy floating around somewhere or it might be aired someday?

Hey guys,

I'm experiencing scratching head regarding remuxing tracks from DVDs to HD versions.

Everything is in sync, the image masters are the same, running at 23.976, so track should align by simple remux.

When I demux the tracks, they still are are the exact same length either opened in audacity, or VLC.

However when I want to remux them, they are off sync.

It looks like the tracks are running at 24fps to be the exact same, whereas the image master are at 23.976. ie when I reencode the tracks at 23.976 they come out sightly off sync, but at 24fps they are the right lenght.

How is this?