I'm looking to purchase the entire series, but was curious as to what people's opinions were on various releases of the collection that may, in the end, influence which set I purchase. I am trying to decide on one of the following...

The 2013 Bluray Set - http://www.amazon.com/Nightmare-Street-C...PDKIKX0DER
I want this because I want the higher resolution of BD as well as the HD audio... But as far as the visual presentation of the packaging goes, there's nothing too terribly special about it

And...

The 1999 New Line Platinum Series DVD Box Set - http://www.amazon.com/Nightmare-Street-C...H2TCQSQNYB
Admittedly, the main reason I want to buy this one is because it'll look damn good on my shelf. A buddy of mine bought this years ago and the presentation of the set is very nice with good extras.

Project Info:

See this thread: https://fanrestore.com/thread-1071.html

I was looking for new ways and better processes to upscale old SD sources for future projects. Since I was in love with collecting old open matte DVDs, I'd thought I'd try some techniques I learned against one of them, since its unlikely we will see many 4:3 open mattes in the 16:9/HDTV world. With that I selected to upscale Back to the Future (BTTF) since I love the movie and the DVD looks pretty good. So what was an experiment (and still is) seems to have grown into a project.

So what did I do with the video? At first I IVTC'd it back into 480/23.97p and used some SR techniques to get the resolution up to 1080p. It will never be HD but hopefully its good enough that you will forget that you are watching SD. I tried to remove as much of the halos as I could without sacrificing video quality. I also scaled the widescreen DVD and added the SFX shot (which are 1.85) into the project. Its about 21 shots. So anytime there is a SFX shot it switches from 4:3 to 16:9. Then the whole thing is regrained

For sound I used the DVD's 5.1 and then synced the LD's PCM2.0. I also ran the LD's PCM through an old Fosgate Model 5 in Pro-Logic mode. To give it a little extra I added the processor 70mm mode which adds a little dynamic range to the recording. How does it sound? Better then the DVD's 5.1 in some spots worse in other (channel drift). I'll let people decide. This is just a first test of this process. There is a lot of room for improvement.

Video:
The open matte DVD upscaled mixed with the widescreen DVD for SFX/optical shots. The upscaling was done with a combination of super-resolution and nnedi with filters to reduce macro-blocking and edge enhancement/halos. The resulting image was further processed and then re-grained with a real grain best matching the DCP version.

Audio:
1. Dolby Surround PCM 2.0 from the wide screen laserdisc

2. Dolby Digital 5.1 from the open matte DVD.

3. DTS-HD MA 5.1. This is an upmix of the PCM 2.0, run through a Fosgate Model Model 5 in Pro-Logic mode with 70mm sound extension.

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Thanks:
Doombot: for major testing and advice
Chewtobacco: for all his ivtc and avisynth advice

I need to buy some things of 7788.com, but they only shit to Taiwan sadly. Looking for some rare Laserdiscs of John Woo and Jackie Chan movies, as well as Taiwanese extended cuts (mostly available only on VCD/VHS - Mr. Canton and Lady Rose and The Killer).

I hope this is the right spot for this.

I recently got the 1993 comedy Fatal Instinct on Blu Ray, which hasn't seen a proper widescreen release since Laserdisc. Much to my dismay, two songs were inexplicably replaced on the soundtrack, Iron Butterfly's in-a-gadda-da-vida, and Van Morrison's Brown Eyed Girl.

Brown Eyed Girl was originally played over the closing credits, and was replaced with an extension of the movie's score, but whatever they replaced  in-a-gadda-da-vida with sounds nothing like it at all.

There is no mention anywhere on the disc or packaging that this was done either. To make matters worse,  in-a-gadda-da-vida is referenced by the characters in the film, and mentioned on the commentary ported over from the 2003 full frame DVD. (Which also has the songs intact.) You can still hear the songs on the commentary track, so this is just baffling and annoying as heck that this sort of thing still goes on in 2016.

Are there any other movies recently reissued where this has happened?

Does anyone own this yet?

What is your opinion on the colour timing?

Going by these screencaps I'm not sure I like the less saturated, muted colours.

What do you guys think, and does anyone know how this would have looked theatrically?

http://kinograph.cc/

I am extremely tempted to build one of these machines, but I do not have space at my place currently. What you guys think?

Hey all,

I'm trying to get a better understanding of CEE Bluray releases. It would seem a fair amount of folks tend to prefer them over others? Would someone kindly lay out the pro's and con's of CEE vs. R1 releases please?

Thank you.

Shawn

So I'm thinking of getting a flatbed film scanner for telecine work. What model would you recommend?

35mm Feature Film: Star Wars (Special Edition)

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Auction ends this Saturday, April 30th

Title says it all. I'm looking to convert some old PAL DVDs to 23.976fps and looking for the best way to do it. I used dvd2avi to convert to 25p and then vdub to slow down to 23.976 but to resulting video still looks too "fast" like it is still running at 25fps. So I was wondering if any of you fine folks had a better method.