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Seems to be the best place to post that. GTA Online is the game I play the most to. Actually I play with a good friend of mine with whom I share a lot of common interests. We've created a crew called "The LaserDiscs" and we feel a bit lonely from time to time so we were wondering if anybody else on here is playing to the PC version and would like to join us in our crew for some cool sessions! I'd like to hear from any of you really, even if you already have a crew. It would still be interesting to play and chat with someone else from FanRes I'm not expecting a lot of people that are playing to this game and even less on PC but we never know!

OK, I'm aware there are the new UltraHD Blu-ray at 66GB or 100GB (right?) and also web streaming, and satellite broadcasting... is there some website which lists the available titles, both on UHDBD and web? Also, are some UHDTV broadcast actually recorded and available somewhere? I wonder the file size... I mean, a friend told me he watched several 2160p movies, and many were way over 100GB - some around 140GB... 

Anyone watching the U.S election right now? I'm despairing pretty bad right now.

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Hi!
Lurker and occasional poster on lddb (not for a while) and OT (likewise) and blu-ray.com. Have always been interested in original soundtracks over revisionist nonsense and the golden/silver age of surround sound technology. Got really brave and bought an M-Audio soundcard last year to attempt some ld captures and never got round to installing it and sold it on! Real life means it'll be more of the low profile from me but I like to offer the occasional opinion, bit of research and so on.

To all those doing - keep up the good work!

I'm "back in business" in the last few days; trying to encode some pending projects, I had a lot of troubles - encoding crashes, stops at different frames etc.

I strongly suspect Lagarith is guilty; in particular, using more than one istance could be the problem... for example, I tried to save a project with it, using two sources encoded with the same codec - so, two Lagarith in, one Lagarith out... and it stops everytime; also, two Lagarith in, one X264 out do the same... trying to solve the problem saving those with other codecs - the LD with Huffyuv, the HD-DVD with MagicYUV, then I will try to encode the final project both in Lagarith and X264, and see what will happen - if Lagarith will fail, the problem lies in the codec itself, if also X264 will fail, problem is somewhere else, but where?

Let's wait until the final encoding...

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Project released under the new [Fundamental Collection] label - please visit https://fanrestore.com/thread-1348.html and post your comments there, thanks!

• The Thing - US HD-DVD
  
• The Thing (Collector's Edition) - US BD
  
• The Thing (Pioneer Cinema) - PAL UK laserdisc CLV - for color reference
  

• La Cosa (The Thing) - PAL IT DVD - just for color reference where LD has fades
  

• The Thing (Signature Collection) - NTSC US laserdisc CLV/CAV - English soundtrack PCM 2.0 (original)
  
• The Thing (letterbox edition) - NTSC US laserdisc CLV - English soundtrack PCM 2.0 (changed)
  
• The Thing - PAL France laserdisc CLV - French soundtrack PCM 2.0
  
• The Thing - 1998 US DVD - English commentary AC3 1.0
  
• La Cosa (The Thing) - 1998 PAL IT DVD - Italian soundtrack AC3 2.0 (changed)
  
• La Cosa (The Thing) - 1998 PAL IT DVD - Spanish soundtrack AC3 1.0 (changed)
  
• The Thing - UK BD - English soundtrack DTS-HD MA (new remix)
  
• The Thing - UK BD - French soundtrack DTS 5.1 (new remix)
  
• The Thing - UK BD - Italian soundtrack DTS 5.1 (new remix)
  
• The Thing - UK BD - German soundtrack DTS 5.1 (new remix)
  
• The Thing - UK BD - Spanish soundtrack DTS 2.0 mono (new remix)
  

• Pioneer DVL-909 PAL/NTSC laserdisc/DVD player
  

• Sony Vaio VGX-XL201 PC CPU Core 2 Duo E6300 1.86Hz, 3GB RAM, 32GB+2TB+4TB HDDs, BD-RE
  
• AverMedia BDA A16C internal video card (with Philips SAA713x chipset)
  
• Western Digital Elements 1TB external USB HD
  
• Microsoft XBOX360 HD-DVD player
  

• Monster Cable S-Video 5pin cable (very high quality)
  
• SONY optical S/PDIF cable (very high quality)
  
• no-brand coaxial cable (very high quality)
  

• VirtualDub as capture software
  
• VirtualDub and AviSynth for video editing
  
• AviSynth + SoundOut and Foobar2000 for audio conversions
  
• tsMuxeR and AVIdemux for muxing/demuxing
  

• laserdisc video captured at card native resolution 720x576 @25fps (PAL), YUV Lagarith lossless compression
  
• PCM digital audio from Laserdisc to PC via S/PDIF bit-perfect 16bit 44.1KHz stereo
  

• opening credits (up to "Antarctica, winter 1982") are taken untouched from HD-DVD BD video, because there is no need for color regrading, as the flying saucer and earth colors are almost the same of the laserdisc/DVD - for the end credits, from the last image of the movie, BD is used, but with zero saturation, because it has a lilac dominance
  
• the rest of the movie is regraded using the HD-DVD BD as source, and laserdisc as color reference; avisynth script ColourMatch is used
  
• except the laserdisc side 1 end / side 2 beginning scenes, as they have fade out / fade in, were not possible to be used, so I used the DVD there for color reference, tweaked a little bit to be as close as possible to the laserdisc
  

• letterbox 2.35:1 1920x816 pixel inside the 16:9 1920x1080 pixel FHD frame, AVC (x264) 23.976fps, average bitrate 18500kbps
  

• english PCM 2.0 16bit 1536kbps - from NTSC Signature Collection LD
  
• english AC3 2.0 16bit 384kbps - from NTSC letterbox LD
  
• english DTS-HD MA 5.1 24bit 3900kbps (1536kbps core DTS) - from UK BD
  
• french PCM 2.0 16bit 1536kbps - from PAL french LD
  
• french DTS 5.1 24bit 768kbps - from UK BD
  
• italian AC3 2.0 16bit 192kbps - from PAL IT DVD
  
• italian DTS 5.1 24bit 768kbps - from UK BD
  
• spanish DTS 2.0 24bit 384kbps (mono) - from UK BD
  
• spanish AC3 1.0 16bit 96kbps - from PAL IT DVD
  
• german DTS 5.1 24bit 768kbps - from UK BD
  
• commentary AC3 16bit 1.0 96kbps - from PAL IT DVD
  

• The Aluminum Falcon for the HD-DVD video
  
• zeropc for DVD english soundtrack and commentary
  
• ilovewaterslides for the PCM french soundtrack
  
• Namtar for the isolated score
  
• Jetrell Fo for general supporting and encouragement
  
• MrBrown for German and Spanish tracks
  
• everyone who showed interest and appreciation
  

• v2.0 will use the new Scream Factory BD, due to its higher resolution and visible film grain in comparison to the HD-DVD used for the previous version; the upgrading aiming to improve the color regrading quality, and of course will benefit of the superior source resolution; audio and subtitles are the same.
  
• updated project info accordingly
  

I know there is a small 4GB file out there of this but I would love to see a full blown custom BD release of this. Has anybody seen one or willing to do one?

I love the movie and I really enjoyed watching the alternate version.

Maybe there would be a way to make one big custom extended edition?

Thanks for listening.

...than most of the DVDs - and few BDs, as I read also in some forums. I don't want to talk about MUSE laserdisc audio now, because I'm not expert in that branch, but whoever wants to talk about it, is welcome!
OK, let's start!

NTSC laserdiscs could contain a different combination of soundtracks:

• two mono analog
  
• one stereo analog
  
• two mono analog + two mono PCM
  
• two mono analog + one stereo PCM
  
• one stereo analog + two mono PCM
  
• one stereo analog + one stereo PCM
  
• AC3 + one mono analog + one stereo PCM
  
• DTS + one stereo analog
  

• two mono analog (on laservision)
  
• one stereo analog (on laservision)
  
• two mono digital
  
• one stereo digital
  
• DTS (well, only one title ever released!)
  

• Frequency response: 20-20000hz (±3dB)
  
• Signal-to-noise ratio (CX off): >50dB (up to 58dB)
  
• Signal-to-noise ratio (CX on): >62dB (up to 74dB)
  
• Channel separation: >50dB
  

• Frequency response: 4-20000hz (±0.1dB)
  
• Signal-to-noise ratio: 96dB - up to 117db (EIAJ)
  
• Dynamic range: 96dB - up to 99dB (EIAJ)
  
• Channel separation: 80dB - up to 90dB (EIAJ)
  
• Wow & Flutter: <0.001% (EIAJ)
  

Quote:This paper presented listeners with a choice between high-rate DVD-A/SACD content, chosen by high-definition audio advocates to show off high-def's superiority, and that same content resampled on the spot down to 16-bit / 44.1kHz Compact Disc rate. The listeners were challenged to identify any difference whatsoever between the two using an ABX methodology. BAS conducted the test using high-end professional equipment in noise-isolated studio listening environments with both amateur and trained professional listeners.

In 554 trials, listeners chose correctly 49.8% of the time. In other words, they were guessing. Not one listener throughout the entire test was able to identify which was 16/44.1 and which was high rate [15], and the 16-bit signal wasn't even dithered!

disclord Wrote:NEVER listen to a non-encoded disc with CX on - its not been properly encoded for the CX noise reduction and will not sound right.  It's not there to be used on non-CX'd discs. However, an analog CX disc can be listened to without CX decoding - that was one of the design goals, that it not sound noticably weird when not decoded - it will just have more background/disc noise.  Every digital title that has the analog soundtrack duplicating the digital has CX - discs with commentary/bilingual/AC-3 discs do not have CX (some are improperly auto encoded with it though, sadly).  DTS discs with analog stereo tracks are all CX.  CX requires that the two encoded channels be related, i.e. stereo or mono, to decode correctly, thus incorrectly encoded commentary/bilingual are not in CX compliance.