Anyone know what's up with the OriginalTrilogy.com forum?
I've been unable to reach the page in two days.

Hello,

This is my first post and I found this forum by accident. Having worked as a Projectionist/Technician for the last 30 years and now working with DCPs, I remember the early days of DTS, starting with the 4 channel version in our theatre with Jurassic Park and then the following year being pushed to the 6 channel when True Lies was released. I'm glad I found this forum since what many of you have been doing with restoring tracks is exactly what I've been trying to do for awhile now (along with experimenting with film scanning). 

I recently have been trying to work with Cinema DTS discs and getting the soundtrack off of the disc to sync up with a bluray or UHD video file. I know over at Film-Tech they have an extractor program which was mostly designed for compiling trailer disc files and creating a custom trailer disc for your preshow. Even with the advent of the DTS 6D, having the 3rd CD Rom was a great help when they started to encode for trailers in the late 90s, but you still had those problems where all those trailer tracks may not have been available on one disc, so it was a good program to have. I didn't need it by that time since we were using Dolby Digital. I've never used that program before and being a Mac OS user, most of these custom programs aren't available for MAC. 

I've tried to get a DTS CD to mount even as a data disc but only have been successful in getting the B disc to load where the A disc just ejects. The B disc looks to have reel files starting with reel 2, so I'm assuming the A disc has reel 1 and the attached trailer files. I was experimenting with the track that I did pull off the disc and I ended up with an .AUD file. I know there is a program called Foobar2000 that can read them, but again, only for Windows. 

Some of the new bluray and UDH mixes are aweful and I remember theatrical DTS releases sounding incredible! Even the first year 4 track mixes sound better than some of the newer near field mixes. 

Any suggestions on where to start to extract and convert the file is greatly appreciated. In the meantime, I'll keep on looking through the archive. 

Thanks

Bernie

When I was young it was a Halloween tradition in my house to watch Disney's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". The specific release we had was the Disney Mini Classic VHS, which is trimmed down from the full "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad"  and includes unique opening credits and promos.

Since the 4k UHD just came out, does someone can share the original audio ?

As far as I know, the theatrical cut has never been available on Blu-ray, and I haven't found any preservations or recreations of it online. I'm sure I'm not the only one who grew up on this cut. I personally prefer it over the Director's Cut, as the pacing is thrown off in that version.

It would be amazing if anyone were to bring the theatrical cut back.

Hi all,

Looking to upscale some animation DVD's I have. Got them ripped and was ready to deinterlace until I noticed in Mediainfo that they're Progressive, with a variable framerate (24.58fps apparently) and 2:3 pulldown.

I tried upscaling the file as is but got some nasty combing effects. Just wondering what the best way would be to encode them as true progressive files ready for upscaling?


Thanks

Hey everyone.

Glad to be here, hope you all are well!

Does anyone have the old UK Axiom, German Kinowelt or US Anchor Bay DVDs which have mono/stereo tracks?

Hope I make it here in one piece!