Hello, I'm an Italian PhD student in film studies. I'm particularly interested in film sound and film preservation.
This seems to be an amazing forum! Thanks everybody

Hey, jercaly's here. Never knew how to properly introduce myself, never done this before, so... anyway. I'm kind of a movie freak, lucky to have a job in film distribution business (So what do you do for living? - Um, watching movies mostly ). Never done any restoration/preservation myself - I'm not that technically advanced, so I'm more of a lurker and an admirer of all the guys doing such a tremendous job of preserving films the way we remember them from our childhood. So the passion was born in 2005, when I first came across OT forum and was there to enjoy all the good preservation stuff for a while. Then life happened - wife, kid, ya know how it goes And then HD happened and all those great opportunities to enjoy all the goodies like Team Negative ESB Grindhouse and Harmy's Despecialized again in HD, and it kinda pulled me back in. So, basically, that's why I'm here - to enjoy and admire. Okay, too much text, over and out.  :cool:

You have a beautiful mixed stereo track encoded in Dolby Surround, ready to be captured and sync'ed with the latest BD which, of course, has the *wrong* audio track...

Now, there are few options to treat this track...

1. capture the track in stereo, leave it "as is", untouched (apart eventual 44.1->48KHz conversion) and leave the task of decoding to the BD player/amplifier/PC software
   
2. capture the track in stereo, decode it with a software decoder, then save the decoded output as uncompressed PCM/lossless compressed DTS-HD MA/lossy compressed DTS or AC3
   
3. decode the stereo track with an hardware decoder, then capture the multichannel decoded output and save the result as uncompressed PCM/lossless compressed DTS-HD MA/lossy compressed DTS or AC3
   

A very nice comedy; great actors with a difficult task - to play the role of a drag queen could be not easy - but at the end they acted in a convincing way; a story that makes you think, even if it's not original - infact this is a remake of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, an Australian movie shot just an year before, but hey, Hollywood is often short of new ideas...

Apart that, a movie that worth to be watched by everyone - man, woman, drag queen or alien!

As a fourth installment in a cheap (in comparison to other sagas) franchise, you can think Tremors 4 is a complete loss of time, uh?

Is it a masterpiece? Forget about it!
Is it a crappy piece of crap? Absolutely not!

It's a honest monster-based comedy set in the Far West, with good actors, and a nice story... faulty CGI effects, I must admit, but I've seen a lot worst...

I don't think I've posted anything here yet, so hi

Someone mentioned in another forum that the original version of The Wrong Trousers has entirely different music, and that this needed to be altered for home video release (i.e. "Happy Birthday" replaced with "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow", penguin's radio music changed, and I think some background TV audio is changed as well). If someone had a Laserdisc version of this and ripped the audio, it should be easy to sync the LD audio to the Blu-ray and re-create the originally-aired episode in high quality.

Hey, it's my favorite episode. I'd do it if I could get the raw materials. Not as interested in VHS audio, other than to better know what the differences were.

Hey, so uh, CatBus here. For people not familiar with me from OT.com and Project Threepio, I do mostly Star Wars subtitle related stuff, and try to keep it pretty limited to that, because my projects tend to sprawl way out of control. But I'm certainly happy to help with other projects, with info I've learned along the way. Subtitles are an often-overlooked topic, and technical expertise in the area is hard to come by.

So what do you think when an good old movie is released on Blu Ray. Do you prefer it 'dirty and dusty' or crystal clear (looking like a new movie)?

I think both have their advantages, but sometimes the older version seems to have a special charisma. It's like a good, aged wine.

Feel free to share your ideas (pro/contra) and give some examples that come into your mind.

Anyone see this yet?

I just watched it this weekend and loved it. It was very old school with a slow build up of horror. And in keeping with that old school flavor there were no shaky camera, no radical cuts just beautiful well balance shots in 2.39. Kind of like Fury Road, it used classic filming techniques to create a refreshing new film. In that way even though the premise is different, both my brother and I got a Halloween vibe from it.

Also of note the soundtrack was great too. A little over the top but also refreshingly a throw back. Sort of reminded me also of Carpenter and the best Italian composers from the 60s and 70s. You can stream it here:

http://music.disasterpeace.com/album/it-follows