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

Pics:
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I decided to dig up my old PAL DVD of the theatrical cut of Blood Simple as well as my Blu-ray copy of the Director's Cut to compare the look and sound of both versions.
I was struck by how different the two versions look. The Blu-ray is far too bright and low-contrast, which kind of diminishes the noir feel of the film. The DVD is sourced from a print (there are cue marks at the reel changes), so I think it's safe to say it's more in line with how it looked theatrically.

Here are some screenshots:

Blu-ray
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DVD
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Quick regrade test
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Blu-ray
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DVD
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Quick regrade test
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Blu-ray
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DVD
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I also compared a couple of shots from the trailer:

Blu-ray
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DVD
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Trailer
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As you can see, the DVD and the trailer match almost exactly.


Blu-ray
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DVD
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Trailer
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Here the trailer has slightly stronger blue tint than the DVD, but it's a much closer match than the Blu-ray.

The two sound mixes also sound drastically different. I feel it's kind of a similar situation as with The Terminator. The film originally had a charming lo-fi crummy sounding mono mix, but the Blu-ray has this new fancypants remix with an all new foley track. The DVD does have the original mix, but I would like to get my hands on the Laserdisc to sync the audio to the Blu-ray.

So, what do you guys think? Anyone here who would like to see this regrade?

Hello!
I'm Charles Daniels.

I have been involved with hunting down missing television and reconstructing missing episodes of Doctor Who.

I have found many missing programmes from the early 70s on n1500 tapes.

I have also worked on teams re-creating missing TV from the 60s.

I am also a film collector with special interest in items from the 50s to 80s
I collect flms relating to Dr Who, Peter Cushing, Spy Fi, B-movies, and whatever catches my eye really.

Does anyone here have Blood Simple on Laserdisc? It would be nice to have to original mono mix. I realise that the US LD replaced one of the songs due to rights issues (not sure about the Japanese LD, though), but I don't know if the mix was altered in any other way.

I know there is probably a slim chance but does any Hammer fan have the mono pcm for the movie the Gorgon:

http://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/01209/ID6079RC/Gorgon-The

I have the HD I recorded a long time ago off SonyHD. I thought maybe if I could find the mono soundtrack I could make a project of it (if I can get the ivtc to work)

http://realorfake4k.com/

So, you know how Disney effectively release imitations of their animated features on Blu-ray? (see here) I've thought about it, and it's like... the damage is done at this point, you know? But there is a chance that some of the DNR can be reversed by adding fine grain to the transfer. If not, it'd at least restore that filmic look.

Would you say this looks about right?

Of course, this'd only really work for titles that aren't over-processed.

A long time ago, I decided to renew the old, boring yellow emoticons, with the new black ones; then, it was decided to revert to the old ones, but some emoticons remained black... so now we have two kind of emoticons, old yellow and new black, with different styles...

Maybe it's time to use a new set of emoticons... what do you think about these?

This is a work in progress...

THIS THREAD IS FOR LASERDISC DTS ONLY!
EDIT: OOP DTS DVDs are allowed too, but NO Cinema DTS please.
For now I have nothing to add to this list, but let's get the discussion started here

List:

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...to be continued...

I just capped the HD versions from Vudu and I'd like to sync the PCM/uncompressed tracks from the LD's. Does anyone have them?