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| Curse of Frankenstein (1957): Restored UK Master |
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Posted by: The Aluminum Falcon - 2017-06-10, 12:03 AM - Forum: Released
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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.
Audio- 2.0 LPCM English Audio
- 2.0 LPCM Commentary
Screenshots
UK BD
![[Image: 1_BD.png]](https://s23.postimg.cc/xfmvm7gsb/1_BD.png)
Restored UK Master
![[Image: 1_BD_Custom.png]](https://s23.postimg.cc/ux16liv23/1_BD_Custom.png)
UK BD
![[Image: 2_BD.png]](https://s23.postimg.cc/ozxb4pdx7/2_BD.png)
Restored UK Master
![[Image: 2_BD_Custom.png]](https://s23.postimg.cc/txavptfwb/2_BD_Custom.png)
UK BD
![[Image: 3_BD.png]](https://s23.postimg.cc/wv7ujinjv/3_BD.png)
Restored UK Master
![[Image: 3_BD_Custom.png]](https://s23.postimg.cc/updjp0k3f/3_BD_Custom.png)
UK BD
![[Image: 4_BD.png]](https://s23.postimg.cc/aylbj5ad7/4_BD.png)
Restored UK Master
![[Image: 4_BD_Custom.png]](https://s23.postimg.cc/m9nz7ih8b/4_BD_Custom.png)
UK BD
![[Image: 5_BD.png]](https://s23.postimg.cc/vlemi7j5n/5_BD.png)
Restored UK Master
![[Image: 5_BD_Custom.png]](https://s23.postimg.cc/uhui68yij/5_BD_Custom.png)
Project Status
Twelfth project completed and released!
(Though, hopefully, the rumored US BD release will eventually come to fruition and render this previous version obsolete!)
Final Product
1080p BD25
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| Confirm Defaults Are HTTPS: Rather Than HTTP: |
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Posted by: BronzeTitan - 2017-06-07, 07:06 PM - Forum: Bug reports and suggestions
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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."
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| Misinterpretated Text-Conversion-To-Smileys |
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Posted by: BronzeTitan - 2017-06-06, 05:41 PM - Forum: Bug reports and suggestions
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I came across this ...
:victory: ![[Image: confused.png]](https://fanrestore.com/images/smilies/confused.png) uperman: :victory:
... which reminded me of the same thing I had to deal with by Disable Smilies on a particular post.
Apparently, the algorithm used to determine text combinations for conversion to smiley graphics doesn't include assuring that the smiley text is completely isolated by spaces. The above example -- confused_smilies uperman: -- was from a colon, followed by the word "superman", followed by a colon. The present algorithm neglects a full-isolation check and so takes the starting colon and the first letter "s" (or "S") and immediately converts it to a smiley without consideration of the rest of the word from which it was taken.
BTW, this may have something to do with my seeing deletions, by the Delete and/or Backspace keys, getting stuck in place (and not deleting anything). Maybe, too, it could be problems with copying a word that includes the preceding space and pasting it elsewhere but with that preceding space not pasting, too. It could be lower-level editing and/or parsing bugs. Worse still is that they are not consistently repeatable.
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| Highlander 3 - US Theatrical Version |
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Posted by: Bigrob - 2017-06-05, 07:08 PM - Forum: Everything else...
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Hoping someone can clarify something.
From my understanding, Highlander 3 got two releases on home video. A directors cut with upgraded special effects and an international cut.
Was there ever a US theatrical cut? If so, was it released anywhere?
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