Could anyone in the UK who has old recorded tv vhs tapes from 1987 ( and relatives / friends) check if they have the LWT (other ITV regions as well) premiere of Stephen King's Children of the Corn which was shown on Saturday 9th May 1987. It is the only known showing of the ultra rare Directors Cut which is discussed in the alternate version section of the film on imdb site.
I recorded it at the time and can confirm it definitely was the Director's Cut but stupidly recorded over it sometime in the 90,s due to my naivety at the time assuming it was the US R rated theatrical version and that the normal UK vhs was cut.

With all the IT discussion, does anyone have Needful Things (TBS TV Cut) preserved?

Thanks.

It's a recent movie, this year or the last one; what I can remember is an experiment, and an human with an eye that suddenly has different pupils... help!!!

What's that?

Let's try to test it... just click the link to the image:

http://images2.fanpop.com/image/photos/9...00-375.jpg

I was tired to see all those empty avatars, the same for every user, so... I thought to assign to every user with no avatar, a random one!!!

So now, if you don't like it, you are forced to upload a better one!

Even if it seems the budget was so low that they cannot afford the two letters, "ty", at the end of the title this little movie is not bad at all!!!

Don't expect multimillion CGI shots, fast action, battles, droids, spaceships etc... so, what is it in this movie? Don't want to spoiler too much, but it has some bits from several films and games like Alien, Doom, Dead Space and many others... story is original, acting is quite good, just pacing is a bit slow, but apart that, it's a good sci-fi movie - not for everyone, but for many... if you like Dante 01 and Cargo, this is a masterpiece in comparison!

Fanres doesn't seem to have a favicon?
Since it can be very useful for people who have a lot of tabs open all the time (like me), I'd like to suggest that it gets one...
Here's two examples, but I'm sure anyone can do better.
1 - A small filmstrip
2 - a small block of filmgrain

Hello,
Long time OT.com member, though a lack of time has made me less active in the last few years.
I almost only read the preservation threads there anyway, so I guess it's time I finally joined here.
My own preservation project is of course Uproar In Heaven - the original of which has suffered untold butchery and will most likely never be officially available in its original form in any kind of high quality.
Hoping to see lots of exciting projects here!

For those who haven't heard of Miami Connection--it's about a group of Tae Kwon Do/University students that are also in a band called 'Dragon Sound' who end up getting entangled with drug dealing ninjas that ride motorbikes. All this is actually set in Orlando, Florida despite the film being called Miami Connection (it was actually a play on Bruce Lee's Chinese Connection rather than The French Connection). This movie is all kinds of bad. I'm extremely hyped for the guys from Rifftrax riffing it live in theaters in October!

It's a guilty pleasure because, to me, it's the ultimate so bad it's good film. I recently screened it for some friends at our movie night and it was a pretty big hit... my friend and I (whom I also work with) would just bust out singing 'Friends' every time I see him. I would make references to skits from Kids In The Hall and he would just ignore it and start talking about Miami Connection instead. (I've created a monster!) Has anyone else seen it? What's your favourite scene/lines from it?

The blu-ray contains scenes that were edited out of the movie that I intend on re-inserting into the movie and retaining it's HD format. If I knew more about restoration I would probably try to fix some of the damaged scenes but I think it's best to retain it's grindhouse quality, after all it's meant to be seen that way.

HD matrix surround™

What is HD matrix surround™?

It's a discrete multichannel track, originally matrixed in a stereo sound, and then hardware decoded (hence the HD) using the best, and rarer, matrix hardware decoder.

Why?

Because some vintage hardware contains certain dematrix methods different from the usual Dolby Surround, Pro Logic etc. found in every modern decoders; they had that analog sound that could be even better than newer methods.

How does it work?

The matrixed stereo track (usually encoded in Dolby Surround, but could also be DTS Stereo, UltraStereo, CHACE Surround Stereo etc.) is played in the best hardware player (laserdisc, VHS, VHD etc.) using the best cables; the stereo output go in a matrix surround hardware decoder (the older and high-end, the better) to extract at least four different channels (usually Left, Center, Right, Surround) to get a discrete 4.0 multichannel track; those four channels are then captured using two sound cards with a stereo input, one sound card with four discrete inputs, or capture the track twice using a single sound card with a stereo input.

It's possible to get a stereo surround using an hardware stereo synthesizer or a software solution; an LFE could be obtained using a low/high pass filter to route the basses to the LFE and leave the other channels bass-free, either using an hardware or a software solution.

But will it sound better than, for example, Dolby Pro Logic II?

Albeit DPL II is a great matrix surround decoder, some older technology *may* sounds better, or in a different way... at the end:

Quote:Analogue domain matrixing encoding: Dolby Surround (only one spec of its kind there, 4 channels to 2)
Analogue domain matrixing decoding: Dolby Surround
Analogue domain matrixing decoding with steering and individual channel level control through h/w logic (proprietary circuitry depending on manufacturer, with, if at its most basic can decode Dolby Surround as is, then permitted to use logo): Dolby Pro Logic
Analogue domain matrixing decoding with steering and individual channel level control through h/w logic with different emphasis on center and rear for reproducing conventional non-Dolby Surround encoded stereo music tracks: Dolby Pro Logic II

(taken here)

• Shure HTS 5300 / 5200 / 5000 (Acra-Vector technology)
  
• Fosgate Tate II 101A
  
• Fosgate Model 3 / 3a / 4 / 5
  
• Aphex ESP-7000 / Proton SD-1000
  
• Harman Kardon Citation 7.0 / 5.0 (6-axis technology)
  
• Lexicon LOGIC 7 (first models)
  
• Involve Surround Master