Does anyone have the UK optimum or German Studio Canal blu ray release of Manhunter? I just watched it streaming through Amazon prime and amazingly it's a 1080p version of the old "wrong" theatrical cut that was on the 2001 Anchor Bay dvd. I know the US MGM blu ray is the correct theatrical version so I was curious if this edit was on the European blu rays or if this was just some weird thing for VOD.

Now I know Myspleen seems to carry some of this stuff but I was wondering if there is any interest here in putting together some of this stuff for the enjoyment of being able to watch it as you remember seeing them on TV? More for nostalgia probably.

Does anyone have any Star Trek specials recorded on VHS from TV that might be of use towards this end? I'd like to keep it NTSC based but if there is PAL that we can convert for use that would be useful as well.

I wonder if, somewhere in the world, there is a BD (or HD-DVD, or HDTV) extended cut - theatrical + extended/deleted scenes found on DVD.

If not, maybe using the PaNup technique to insert them into the BD *could* be interesting...

Few days ago, I rewatched Underworld trilogy (fourth ep. is still missing from my BD collection) and I had some ideas...

1) Underworld unrated version, using theatrical colors - I'm pretty sure they differ quite substantially
2) "Lycans" with improved brightness and/or contrast - it's a bit too much dark, like AVP2
3) putting them in chronological order - first using the prologue from Und. Evolution, attached to the whole "Lycans" except the last snippet, leaving Viktor in the coffin as the last scene; then Und. "as is", but replacing the Sonya flashback using "Lycans" scenes instead (with proper regrading and flashback effect, if possible); at the end, Und. Evolution, without the prologue and subsequent Selene's narration.

Opinions?

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I just saw this a few minutes ago.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Star-Trek-The-Mo...SwAuNW4jh6

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From the looks of it, the seller is selling all 8 reels.

THIS AUCTION ENDS TODAY!!!

http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=4270


I know that there was talk of someone doing this over at OT but not sure if that project is still alive?

What I was going to try was to try and improve the quality of the iTunes 1080p version I have and then take parts of it to replace the changed footage in the blu-ray. The blu-ray has significnaly better pq so would look to add some grain to the iTunes parts to make the transitions as smooth as possible. There aren't too many parts that need changing so shouldn't take too long.

Is there a recommended way to add grain to an mkv or mpg file? I know a few people have talked about doing it in other threads so any help would be appreciated.

Hi to all,

Thanks for providing a great forum, I figured it was time to (finally) introduce myself. I have been learning about film soundtracks for the last couple of years and finding out that extra channels does not necessarily mean better sound quality. So I am discovering that I am something of a purist at heart. I have heard some uncompressed mono laserdisc soundtracks, and the remixed multi-channel ones simply do not compare.

In the long-term, I want to start creating remuxes of my own and sharing them with the forum. My priority would be remuxing the original mono and Dolby laserdisc soundtracks of the James Bond films (the ones that haven't already been captured) to the best available video source. This may take a while, but when I get into something I tend to dig in obssessively until a project is completed.

Thanks again, looking forward to learning about the laserdisc capturing process!

So apparently they are going ahead with Indiana Jones 5 with Ford and Spielberg. Lucas is out. What does everyone think? I agree with the prevailing opinion that Ford is too old but it feels like Spielberg has something to prove.

This project has been retired since the official Blu-ray has been announced

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I don't know if there are a lot of Hammer Horror fans here but I wanted to see if anyone is interested in this. If you don't know, this is B-film from back in the 60's directed by Terence Fisher and featuring the great Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. The basic plot involves a Gorgon/Medusa plaguing a small German village.

I found a HD capture of The Gorgon I did 3 years ago. I took the video and IVTC'd it, ran de-blocking (there was very little macro-blocking) and then re-grained it. The video looks good and was very sharp but like a lot of HDTV, totally de-grained. So, I looked at the "close cousins", the UK BDs of The Reptile and The Plague of Zombies (which are also similar in plot) and tried to match the grain as close as possible to those. I figured since they are around the same time, same sets, same crews, same optics, then the film stock is probably the same. I then popped in the mono soundtrack from the DVD. I don't know if there were any other Hammer fans here who would be interested in the final results.

Video:
The 1080i HDTV broadcast converted to 1080/24p and re-grained

Audio:
The DD mono from the The Gorgon DVD converted to PCM 2.0.

Output:
MKV compatible within the spec for a 25GB BD

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