Hi,

I own the Paramount VHS of Toho's anime movie The Wizard of Oz (1982). I'm aware that the only DVD release of this movie available is a region-free release by IDG in Poland, and is available from a Polish online store called DVDmax. However, that DVD is of the 1986 Japanese version and only has Japanese and Polish 5.1 audio tracks and Polish subtitles.

I was wondering if someone could rip the Paramount laserdisc, deinterlace, pulldown, clean up, and AI upscale the LD rip to 2160p, rip the IDG DVD, deinterlace, pulldown, and AI upscale the DVD rip to 2160p, reconstruct the English version with the credits and audio (both in 16-bit PCM stereo and a 5.1 upmix using FreeSurround in foobar2000) from the upscaled LD rip and the restored footage from the upscaled DVD rip, and then downscale the reconstruction to 1080p.

I'm also aware that a reconstruction of the English version exists on YouTube. However, it only uses the Polish DVD video and English audio and is in 480p.

Thanks,
James

Well, I think that given your requirements and your knowledge, you should be able to do it yourself

I know, but I don't have a laserdisc player. I do have a VCR/DVD player combo that still works, and would like to rip the Paramount VHS with the Domesday Duplicator, if I could afford to buy it.

(2021-11-26, 09:56 PM)James76 Wrote: I was wondering if someone could rip the Paramount laserdisc, deinterlace, pulldown, clean up, and AI upscale the LD rip to 2160p, rip the IDG DVD, deinterlace, pulldown, and AI upscale the DVD rip to 2160p, reconstruct the English version with the credits and audio (both in 16-bit PCM stereo and a 5.1 upmix using FreeSurround in foobar2000) from the upscaled LD rip and the restored footage from the upscaled DVD rip, and then downscale the reconstruction to 1080p.

This is a hilarious amount of work to ask someone to do for free without doing some of the work yourself. Are you fronting the money for the LD? It doesn't seem common, with no copies available or even sold on ebay and only one listed on LDDB for $30. And with the amount of work that would be going into this, the 91 VHS should be listened to as well since it's potentially higher quality than the analog track on the LD and you wouldn't need a DDD to snag the audio.

There's also this version, which on quick glance, looks better than what's on youtube:
https://archive.org/details/the-wizard-o...remastered

(2023-04-08, 09:46 PM)Yarp Wrote:

(2021-11-26, 09:56 PM)James76 Wrote: I was wondering if someone could rip the Paramount laserdisc, deinterlace, pulldown, clean up, and AI upscale the LD rip to 2160p, rip the IDG DVD, deinterlace, pulldown, and AI upscale the DVD rip to 2160p, reconstruct the English version with the credits and audio (both in 16-bit PCM stereo and a 5.1 upmix using FreeSurround in foobar2000) from the upscaled LD rip and the restored footage from the upscaled DVD rip, and then downscale the reconstruction to 1080p.

This is a hilarious amount of work to ask someone to do for free without doing some of the work yourself. Are you fronting the money for the LD? It doesn't seem common, with no copies available or even sold on ebay and only one listed on LDDB for $30. And with the amount of work that would be going into this, the 91 VHS should be listened to as well since it's potentially higher quality than the analog track on the LD and you wouldn't need a DDD to snag the audio.

There's also this version, which on quick glance, looks better than what's on youtube:
https://archive.org/details/the-wizard-o...remastered

Thanks, I thought I was the only one who thought that
Almost all of his subjects are hilarious requests.

For the OP:
You can at least try to get started on one of these projects. Asking for help when you're stuck, but you can't come and make such huge requests hoping someone will do it all for you.
A Laserdisc player doesn't cost crazy money.