<![CDATA[Fanrestore - Fan Restoration Forum - In progress]]> https://fanrestore.com/ Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:05:53 +0000 MyBB <![CDATA[Master and Commander tweaked audio]]> https://fanrestore.com/thread-6831.html Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:28:01 +0000 Kameraposti]]> https://fanrestore.com/thread-6831.html This movie has great audio but it could be better.
I’ll try to make it sound better :-)
I’ll start with dtsma from bluray and replace the SW track with the one from dts dvd.
Then I’ll increase the stereo separation of the mix - dtsma is very narrow compared to for example Matrix Cinema DTS so thats my goal.
Then remove the muddines of the center channel - for some reason the higher freqs have been neutered and that makes the speech sound like its coming from a box.
I’ll give an update once I have ”a working prototype” Smile]]> This movie has great audio but it could be better.
I’ll try to make it sound better :-)
I’ll start with dtsma from bluray and replace the SW track with the one from dts dvd.
Then I’ll increase the stereo separation of the mix - dtsma is very narrow compared to for example Matrix Cinema DTS so thats my goal.
Then remove the muddines of the center channel - for some reason the higher freqs have been neutered and that makes the speech sound like its coming from a box.
I’ll give an update once I have ”a working prototype” Smile]]> <![CDATA[[Audio] Pather Panchali 1955]]> https://fanrestore.com/thread-5772.html Thu, 22 Feb 2024 18:02:43 +0000 xwmario]]> https://fanrestore.com/thread-5772.html
Criterion UHD has released the UHD of the Apu Trilogy, not going to go in much detail about the PQ as the topic is about the audio.
well then, lets get started...

Got all the possible sources to compare
- Criterion UHD / Criterion BD / Angel DVDR / Artificial Eye / Columbia Star DVDR / WEB-DL

Criterion UHD:
A lot of the folks would not notice this at first, but the audio from Criterion and it previous versions (1080p)/DVD is cleaned. The NR is so damn high that it actually removes the bass and certain audibility. Looks like the Criterion Team just ran a Spectral repair tool and got this done without caring about the loss.
Usually with post processing, applying filters for hiss/hums/cracks & pops, without carefully doing it "line by line", there always is some form of loss - in this case it is quite significant..

Other Sources:
All the other Sources except Artificial Eye mentioned above are very similar to Criterion NR version of this audio, where as Columbia star being "minutely" better than the CC/WEB versions available online.

Artificial Eye
This is the only source which is unfiltered, it is so that the Noise (cracks, pops, hiss, etc...) present on this audio is very high,  but the integrity of every audio aspect related to this movie is very intact in its pure form.
- Sure I could have post processed it somehow without any one knowing and call it a day, But that probably would not have been the right thing
- The syncing of this is a pain in the ass, but this is not a big deal as it can be done. (I am half way through it).
- The AE audio sound like watching on CRT TV back in the day in its original form with a decent amounts of noise, folks from the region can relate to this to a certain extent Wink

Linked a comparison below of a significant score which involves around the religious belief.

Here is a sample between the contenders - https://qiwi.gg/file/dBZe8715-test

Spectrograms:
AE - https://i.slow.pics/nYz4iRyn.png
CC - https://i.slow.pics/bFXiUN2o.png

50 % done in sync]]>
Criterion UHD has released the UHD of the Apu Trilogy, not going to go in much detail about the PQ as the topic is about the audio.
well then, lets get started...

Got all the possible sources to compare
- Criterion UHD / Criterion BD / Angel DVDR / Artificial Eye / Columbia Star DVDR / WEB-DL

Criterion UHD:
A lot of the folks would not notice this at first, but the audio from Criterion and it previous versions (1080p)/DVD is cleaned. The NR is so damn high that it actually removes the bass and certain audibility. Looks like the Criterion Team just ran a Spectral repair tool and got this done without caring about the loss.
Usually with post processing, applying filters for hiss/hums/cracks & pops, without carefully doing it "line by line", there always is some form of loss - in this case it is quite significant..

Other Sources:
All the other Sources except Artificial Eye mentioned above are very similar to Criterion NR version of this audio, where as Columbia star being "minutely" better than the CC/WEB versions available online.

Artificial Eye
This is the only source which is unfiltered, it is so that the Noise (cracks, pops, hiss, etc...) present on this audio is very high,  but the integrity of every audio aspect related to this movie is very intact in its pure form.
- Sure I could have post processed it somehow without any one knowing and call it a day, But that probably would not have been the right thing
- The syncing of this is a pain in the ass, but this is not a big deal as it can be done. (I am half way through it).
- The AE audio sound like watching on CRT TV back in the day in its original form with a decent amounts of noise, folks from the region can relate to this to a certain extent Wink

Linked a comparison below of a significant score which involves around the religious belief.

Here is a sample between the contenders - https://qiwi.gg/file/dBZe8715-test

Spectrograms:
AE - https://i.slow.pics/nYz4iRyn.png
CC - https://i.slow.pics/bFXiUN2o.png

50 % done in sync]]> <![CDATA[VHS Hi-Fi / THX Purchase]]> https://fanrestore.com/thread-5362.html Sun, 09 Jul 2023 02:54:00 +0000 axeyou]]> https://fanrestore.com/thread-5362.html
I only had time to browse about 1/4 of their selection today. Below are the titles that interest me so far. I'm planning to go back some other day and browse through the rest. Will update the list then.

VHS Hi-Fi:
  • Braveheart
  • E.T.
  • The Guns of Navarone
  • Heat
  • The Manchurian Candidate
  • Mission Impossible
  • Total Recall
  • Vertigo

THX-certified VHS (not sure if Hi-Fi):
  • Independence Day
  • Titanic

Now, my questions:
  • Is audio on THX-certified VHS at least equivalent to VHS Hi-Fi?
  • I know we already have LD syncs for some of these (M:I and Total Recall for example), but I don't believe anyone has compared the VHS tracks ( or ?). With that in mind, are any of these worth picking up, either because we don't have a good LD/DVD/BD or because what we already have could still be better?
  • I don't have a VHS player, and TBH I don't plan on getting one because it would just be another box I rarely use but need to pack on my next move. Does anyone in the US have a good capture setup who's also interested to check out the AQ on some of these titles? I'll gladly buy them and ship to you for free.
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I only had time to browse about 1/4 of their selection today. Below are the titles that interest me so far. I'm planning to go back some other day and browse through the rest. Will update the list then.

VHS Hi-Fi:
  • Braveheart
  • E.T.
  • The Guns of Navarone
  • Heat
  • The Manchurian Candidate
  • Mission Impossible
  • Total Recall
  • Vertigo

THX-certified VHS (not sure if Hi-Fi):
  • Independence Day
  • Titanic

Now, my questions:
  • Is audio on THX-certified VHS at least equivalent to VHS Hi-Fi?
  • I know we already have LD syncs for some of these (M:I and Total Recall for example), but I don't believe anyone has compared the VHS tracks ( or ?). With that in mind, are any of these worth picking up, either because we don't have a good LD/DVD/BD or because what we already have could still be better?
  • I don't have a VHS player, and TBH I don't plan on getting one because it would just be another box I rarely use but need to pack on my next move. Does anyone in the US have a good capture setup who's also interested to check out the AQ on some of these titles? I'll gladly buy them and ship to you for free.
]]> <![CDATA[Jurassic Park 3 - Best Audio?]]> https://fanrestore.com/thread-4076.html Wed, 28 Jul 2021 00:45:32 +0000 stwd4nder2]]> https://fanrestore.com/thread-4076.html
Any information would be helpful.]]>
Any information would be helpful.]]> <![CDATA["Is Paris Burning?" / "Paris brûle-t-il?" / "Brennt Paris?" (1966) - Undubbed]]> https://fanrestore.com/thread-4008.html Sat, 26 Jun 2021 16:56:08 +0000 Goggen240]]> https://fanrestore.com/thread-4008.html This movie is available in three versions:
All voices dubbed in English, all voices in French and all voices in German.
Naturally, this will not do, so I synchronized the three versions, and then switched back and forth between them depending on speakers' original language. I switched it "live" on my first viewing, then I made a more proper edit in Audacity later. Most of the movie is in French, most of what's left in American, the rest German. There's one actress who speaks English in some scenes and French in others, which confused me for a bit. Oh, and there's Swedish for two lines, but only in the American dub.

When I did this, I had three versions available:
1080p streaming: American image, American dub
DVD rip: American image, French dub
TV Rip: German image, German dub, some scenes deleted, bad quality.
I used FFMatch to match the versions and copy the soundtracks (as MP3, because that's what FFMatch does) and then used a whole lot of "constant power crossfade" in Audacity to jump between them. (Which isn't great, if I want to redo it.)
I started with the American streaming copy as a base, but would use French audio for the most part, in case of crowd noises and such. I would only use the German dub when necessary, since it was much lower quality. There was also one scene that should have been spoken in German, but wasn't present in the German TV rip.
I also edited the subtitles slightly, since they were not translations, but transcriptions of the American dub, so the subtitle lines would be somewhat out of sync and also didn't match the original languages in translation.
Best example: "Ich habe vier Panzer-" became "I have three panzers-", even though "vier" means 4, not 3. Because the mouth movements of "three" and "vier" (sounds like "fear") match better, that's what they dubbed it to...
Unfortunately, I don't understand French, only German, so I couldn't verify if the French translation was bad.
Since finishing/abandoning this project I've found a French/German HDTV rip, which is very good quality and should really be used to replace the German audio. It also included the deleted German TV rip scene, but seems to be dubbed by a different German actor than the one on-screen. This HDTV version is French image, with synchronized French and German soundtracks, so hypothetically there could be some fun reconstruction work one could do to make creditless openings and suchlike.]]> This movie is available in three versions:
All voices dubbed in English, all voices in French and all voices in German.
Naturally, this will not do, so I synchronized the three versions, and then switched back and forth between them depending on speakers' original language. I switched it "live" on my first viewing, then I made a more proper edit in Audacity later. Most of the movie is in French, most of what's left in American, the rest German. There's one actress who speaks English in some scenes and French in others, which confused me for a bit. Oh, and there's Swedish for two lines, but only in the American dub.

When I did this, I had three versions available:
1080p streaming: American image, American dub
DVD rip: American image, French dub
TV Rip: German image, German dub, some scenes deleted, bad quality.
I used FFMatch to match the versions and copy the soundtracks (as MP3, because that's what FFMatch does) and then used a whole lot of "constant power crossfade" in Audacity to jump between them. (Which isn't great, if I want to redo it.)
I started with the American streaming copy as a base, but would use French audio for the most part, in case of crowd noises and such. I would only use the German dub when necessary, since it was much lower quality. There was also one scene that should have been spoken in German, but wasn't present in the German TV rip.
I also edited the subtitles slightly, since they were not translations, but transcriptions of the American dub, so the subtitle lines would be somewhat out of sync and also didn't match the original languages in translation.
Best example: "Ich habe vier Panzer-" became "I have three panzers-", even though "vier" means 4, not 3. Because the mouth movements of "three" and "vier" (sounds like "fear") match better, that's what they dubbed it to...
Unfortunately, I don't understand French, only German, so I couldn't verify if the French translation was bad.
Since finishing/abandoning this project I've found a French/German HDTV rip, which is very good quality and should really be used to replace the German audio. It also included the deleted German TV rip scene, but seems to be dubbed by a different German actor than the one on-screen. This HDTV version is French image, with synchronized French and German soundtracks, so hypothetically there could be some fun reconstruction work one could do to make creditless openings and suchlike.]]> <![CDATA[THE X-FILES (1998) soundtrack glitches]]> https://fanrestore.com/thread-3771.html Mon, 01 Feb 2021 01:19:00 +0000 pipefan413]]> https://fanrestore.com/thread-3771.html
Working on this today. Just watched the film with the audio that's on the disc, which actually was pretty good overall (not anything particularly incredible, but a pretty pleasing mix to listen to on my system in any case). But then it got to a dramatic moment near the end of the film and *this* happened...


Password = FightTheFuture

Deary dear.]]>
Working on this today. Just watched the film with the audio that's on the disc, which actually was pretty good overall (not anything particularly incredible, but a pretty pleasing mix to listen to on my system in any case). But then it got to a dramatic moment near the end of the film and *this* happened...


Password = FightTheFuture

Deary dear.]]> <![CDATA[THE RETURN OF CAPTAIN INVINCIBLE: when stereo isn't stereo]]> https://fanrestore.com/thread-3734.html Sun, 10 Jan 2021 21:39:34 +0000 pipefan413]]> https://fanrestore.com/thread-3734.html
At best, Dolby may have provided noise reduction for the recording of the soundtrack, but it sure as hell sounds and looks like mono to me, no Dolby Stereo/Surround. Even that's dubious because there's a huge amount of analogue noise in all versions I've checked (which is almost all of them). The NTSC DVDs (US and AU) do have 5.1, but so do lots of films that originally had mono tracks, and in this case the 5.1 sounds pretty crap and is clearly sourced from the same audio that's on the US LaserDisc, which sounds like 35 mm optical tracks (possibly even 16 mm) that haven't been cleaned up much at all.

The older Japanese LD is analogue-only, which is a bit of a bummer, though it has a better video transfer than the US one. Although the later US LD has digital PCM audio, it sounds pretty awful (I'll get to exactly how in a minute), so it might theoretically be that the JP LD is the better source between them but I'm not convinced of that yet because it's pretty atrocious too. I had to fix 3 particularly problematic moments in the US PCM, and it's very possible that there may be some more I haven't yet noticed:

1. A frame was missing in the middle of a scene with lots of repetitive background noise including electronic bleepy bloopy noises that made it very difficult to hide (in the source PCM it just jumps abruptly, they didn't attempt to fix it). Conversely, in the 5.1 audio from the US DVD, there's another moment where they *did* attempt to cover missing frames but made a hash of it: you hear the noise of a door opening twice in quick succession because of a botched loop in a stupid place. It was very difficult to handle this moment transparently, I'll give them that, but I feel like if an amateur plonker like me can do it then it should have been doable on the actual official DVD release...

2. After the side change there was a massive pop in the waveforms on both channels that I tried my best to correct with iZotope RX, but it's still not perfect so you'll probably notice if you're listening for it. Compared to how it sounded beforehand though it's *significantly* better.

3. I just noticed another huge pop much earlier in the film during a piece of music, which I've also tried to remove to the best of my ability but it's still there (just significantly less unpleasant on the ears).

I started off just resyncing based on the analogue audio track captured with the LD video, but found this to be a little off. I then switched to targeting the DVD's 5.1 track sync, but realised that this too was pretty noticeably off in several places, so I shunted the audio back a frame from there and synced it all visually using AviSynth and VirtualDub, occasionally exporting as a 32-bit float and fixing more delicate problems in RX then importing that back into the AviSynth script. This approach gets really messy fast which is irritating but it means I'm not compromising due to the limitations of any single piece of software (or, one might legitimately argue, my skill level with it) and I'm generally leaving myself fairly specific notes so I can retrace my steps easily enough. In other words, this was a bit of a pain in the arse and it still sounds pretty bad because the source was poor to start with, but there are no good sources for this film AFAIK. I know of only a handful of disc releases (there are VHS releases that I haven't yet investigated, but I don't really expect them to be especially different/better):

1. JP NTSC LD, analogue audio only (packaging claims it's Dolby Surround). Video is widescreen but still cropped at sides somewhat, apart from end credits.

2. US NTSC LD, digital PCM audio (packaging calls it "stereo surround sound"... but interestingly there is no mention of Dolby and no Dolby Surround logo). Video is 4:3 pan & scan, so heavily cropped at the sides, except the end credits where it's in the original ratio because the credits wouldn't work at all if it were cropped this much (or at all, really).

3. 2003 US NTSC DVD, 5.1 Dolby Digital audio and original anamorphic widescreen ratio. Buuuut... the audio is pretty bad here too.

4. 2014 DE (or possibly Austrian?) PAL DVD containing a cut version of the film, which may have been a bootleg of some sort. Don't have a copy, tempted to check but isn't exactly cheap.

5. 2017 AU DVD (supposedly also NTSC), which looks like it's more or less just a straight reissue of the old US one (but I'd like to check if I could find a copy for less than £100!)


The thing is, almost everything lists the soundtrack as being stereophonic, including the end credits:

[Image: rtncapinv144858.png]

... and yet absolutely nothing I'm actually hearing or seeing as I check the reality of the situation is backing that up. It very much seems like every home release has been created from a single optical mono track from a print, which was in bad shape, even the 5.1 from the NTSC DVDs. What I think might have somehow happened is that because the film was shown "in selected theatres" with Dolby Stereo, but it absolutely tanked, they probably didn't ship many prints with the Dolby Stereo 4:2 matrixed surround mix on them but instead shipped a bunch of mono prints without the Dolby stuff because it was cheaper. Then, when it came to making a home video transfer, one of those mono prints was used as the source, but it was incorrectly assumed to be Dolby Stereo because of the information they had at the time (e.g. the end credits) so that's what went on the packaging, and this was propogated in every further home release.

To test this theory, I did my own matrix decode using the Dolby Pro Logic II software decoder from Cyberlink PowerDVD, and sure enough I got 6 tracks but what was in them seemed to support my hypothesis. The surround channels at the back contained nothing but music from L+R, dialogue and other sounds bleeding from C, and undesirable analogue noise. The 5.1 track off the US DVD isn't anything much more sophisticated, it just seems to be the exact same master thrown through a matrix decoder, which has indeed spat out 6 channels, but they're much like the ones I got from my own test: the surround channels don't seem to contain any surround information, just messed up portions leaking from the fronts. It isn't just the surrounds, either: the left and right channels are full of leaking dialogue that should be in the centre channel if it were actually Dolby Stereo, and the LFE channel is an atrocity in its own way, being about 95% complete silence and 5% horrible woolly residual noise that clearly wasn't designed to represent "low frequency effects" (it's just awful, awful noise, like somebody standing in a hurricane holding a microphone).

On top of the 2:6 upmixing problems described above, the left and right channels on the US LD pretty much just seem to be exactly the same except that they have different sonic characteristics, which is to say that the *content* is identical (i.e. it's monophonic) but the frequency response and noise levels are not. The right channel seems to be the overall winner to my ears, mostly because the left channel has this horrible pulsating quality that was also apparent on the Japanese LD... it's quite hard to describe but it kinda sounds like they've put a really crappy noise gate on the entire thing in a vain attempt to attenuate tape hiss and electrical interference, because every time there is an actual recorded sound, there's this surge of analogue noise along with it but it disappears again when the recording goes quiet. The right channel has no such issue here. This in and of itself would seem really bizarre, but there is actually some precedent for it in my own collection: the US CAV LD release of THE SWORD IN THE STONE claims to have a "restored stereo soundtrack" but it clearly doesn't, instead having one version of the mono (which sounds a bit dodgy) on the left channel, and another version of the mono (which sounds *absolutely atrocious*) on the right channel, both on the analogue and PCM tracks. I think that might be exactly what's going on here, except that it's the other way around: the right channel here sounds ever so slightly less awful than the left, due to it not having that weird pulsating noise the whole way through. If anything, you have almost the inverse effect, which is standard for a monophonic soundtrack recorded without Dolby noise reduction being employed: when the recorded sound kicks in, the tape hiss is knocked down a peg because some of it being sort of pushed out of the way (though not very much of it, since there's very little high frequency activity in Academy mono that would knock it out of the spectrogram). And yeah: the 5.1 track from the US DVD sounds like this as well.

My usual test to check for mono doesn't apply here, by the way, because the left and right channels have completely different EQ. If they were at least properly balanced (in terms of both gain and frequency response), then inverting the phase of one side and then mixing down to 1 channel would cause phase cancellation to occur on almost the entire recording, but if the gain and/or EQ is significantly different then the phase cancellation doesn't work and you're just left with a horrible racket, which is exactly what happens here. This doesn't make me think that it's stereo, just that it's extremely poorly presented mono, as I'm suggesting based on all the other evidence I've just talked about.

But wait, I said "almost" all the info claims that the film is stereophonic. Why? Because the 2014 German DVD allegedly contains an English 1.0 mono soundtrack! However, it probably won't be very useful, given that it's heavily cut (not to mention low-bitrate Dolby AC-3 with PAL speedup).

What I might do is consider the right channel from the US LD the best of a bad bunch and take that as a mono track on its own, excluding that horrid pulsating left channel from both LDs. It's re-synchronised as 2 channels anyway so I can very easily leave it as lopsided 2ch, split them into two separate mono tracks, or discard one of them altogether (most likely the left channel).]]>
At best, Dolby may have provided noise reduction for the recording of the soundtrack, but it sure as hell sounds and looks like mono to me, no Dolby Stereo/Surround. Even that's dubious because there's a huge amount of analogue noise in all versions I've checked (which is almost all of them). The NTSC DVDs (US and AU) do have 5.1, but so do lots of films that originally had mono tracks, and in this case the 5.1 sounds pretty crap and is clearly sourced from the same audio that's on the US LaserDisc, which sounds like 35 mm optical tracks (possibly even 16 mm) that haven't been cleaned up much at all.

The older Japanese LD is analogue-only, which is a bit of a bummer, though it has a better video transfer than the US one. Although the later US LD has digital PCM audio, it sounds pretty awful (I'll get to exactly how in a minute), so it might theoretically be that the JP LD is the better source between them but I'm not convinced of that yet because it's pretty atrocious too. I had to fix 3 particularly problematic moments in the US PCM, and it's very possible that there may be some more I haven't yet noticed:

1. A frame was missing in the middle of a scene with lots of repetitive background noise including electronic bleepy bloopy noises that made it very difficult to hide (in the source PCM it just jumps abruptly, they didn't attempt to fix it). Conversely, in the 5.1 audio from the US DVD, there's another moment where they *did* attempt to cover missing frames but made a hash of it: you hear the noise of a door opening twice in quick succession because of a botched loop in a stupid place. It was very difficult to handle this moment transparently, I'll give them that, but I feel like if an amateur plonker like me can do it then it should have been doable on the actual official DVD release...

2. After the side change there was a massive pop in the waveforms on both channels that I tried my best to correct with iZotope RX, but it's still not perfect so you'll probably notice if you're listening for it. Compared to how it sounded beforehand though it's *significantly* better.

3. I just noticed another huge pop much earlier in the film during a piece of music, which I've also tried to remove to the best of my ability but it's still there (just significantly less unpleasant on the ears).

I started off just resyncing based on the analogue audio track captured with the LD video, but found this to be a little off. I then switched to targeting the DVD's 5.1 track sync, but realised that this too was pretty noticeably off in several places, so I shunted the audio back a frame from there and synced it all visually using AviSynth and VirtualDub, occasionally exporting as a 32-bit float and fixing more delicate problems in RX then importing that back into the AviSynth script. This approach gets really messy fast which is irritating but it means I'm not compromising due to the limitations of any single piece of software (or, one might legitimately argue, my skill level with it) and I'm generally leaving myself fairly specific notes so I can retrace my steps easily enough. In other words, this was a bit of a pain in the arse and it still sounds pretty bad because the source was poor to start with, but there are no good sources for this film AFAIK. I know of only a handful of disc releases (there are VHS releases that I haven't yet investigated, but I don't really expect them to be especially different/better):

1. JP NTSC LD, analogue audio only (packaging claims it's Dolby Surround). Video is widescreen but still cropped at sides somewhat, apart from end credits.

2. US NTSC LD, digital PCM audio (packaging calls it "stereo surround sound"... but interestingly there is no mention of Dolby and no Dolby Surround logo). Video is 4:3 pan & scan, so heavily cropped at the sides, except the end credits where it's in the original ratio because the credits wouldn't work at all if it were cropped this much (or at all, really).

3. 2003 US NTSC DVD, 5.1 Dolby Digital audio and original anamorphic widescreen ratio. Buuuut... the audio is pretty bad here too.

4. 2014 DE (or possibly Austrian?) PAL DVD containing a cut version of the film, which may have been a bootleg of some sort. Don't have a copy, tempted to check but isn't exactly cheap.

5. 2017 AU DVD (supposedly also NTSC), which looks like it's more or less just a straight reissue of the old US one (but I'd like to check if I could find a copy for less than £100!)


The thing is, almost everything lists the soundtrack as being stereophonic, including the end credits:

[Image: rtncapinv144858.png]

... and yet absolutely nothing I'm actually hearing or seeing as I check the reality of the situation is backing that up. It very much seems like every home release has been created from a single optical mono track from a print, which was in bad shape, even the 5.1 from the NTSC DVDs. What I think might have somehow happened is that because the film was shown "in selected theatres" with Dolby Stereo, but it absolutely tanked, they probably didn't ship many prints with the Dolby Stereo 4:2 matrixed surround mix on them but instead shipped a bunch of mono prints without the Dolby stuff because it was cheaper. Then, when it came to making a home video transfer, one of those mono prints was used as the source, but it was incorrectly assumed to be Dolby Stereo because of the information they had at the time (e.g. the end credits) so that's what went on the packaging, and this was propogated in every further home release.

To test this theory, I did my own matrix decode using the Dolby Pro Logic II software decoder from Cyberlink PowerDVD, and sure enough I got 6 tracks but what was in them seemed to support my hypothesis. The surround channels at the back contained nothing but music from L+R, dialogue and other sounds bleeding from C, and undesirable analogue noise. The 5.1 track off the US DVD isn't anything much more sophisticated, it just seems to be the exact same master thrown through a matrix decoder, which has indeed spat out 6 channels, but they're much like the ones I got from my own test: the surround channels don't seem to contain any surround information, just messed up portions leaking from the fronts. It isn't just the surrounds, either: the left and right channels are full of leaking dialogue that should be in the centre channel if it were actually Dolby Stereo, and the LFE channel is an atrocity in its own way, being about 95% complete silence and 5% horrible woolly residual noise that clearly wasn't designed to represent "low frequency effects" (it's just awful, awful noise, like somebody standing in a hurricane holding a microphone).

On top of the 2:6 upmixing problems described above, the left and right channels on the US LD pretty much just seem to be exactly the same except that they have different sonic characteristics, which is to say that the *content* is identical (i.e. it's monophonic) but the frequency response and noise levels are not. The right channel seems to be the overall winner to my ears, mostly because the left channel has this horrible pulsating quality that was also apparent on the Japanese LD... it's quite hard to describe but it kinda sounds like they've put a really crappy noise gate on the entire thing in a vain attempt to attenuate tape hiss and electrical interference, because every time there is an actual recorded sound, there's this surge of analogue noise along with it but it disappears again when the recording goes quiet. The right channel has no such issue here. This in and of itself would seem really bizarre, but there is actually some precedent for it in my own collection: the US CAV LD release of THE SWORD IN THE STONE claims to have a "restored stereo soundtrack" but it clearly doesn't, instead having one version of the mono (which sounds a bit dodgy) on the left channel, and another version of the mono (which sounds *absolutely atrocious*) on the right channel, both on the analogue and PCM tracks. I think that might be exactly what's going on here, except that it's the other way around: the right channel here sounds ever so slightly less awful than the left, due to it not having that weird pulsating noise the whole way through. If anything, you have almost the inverse effect, which is standard for a monophonic soundtrack recorded without Dolby noise reduction being employed: when the recorded sound kicks in, the tape hiss is knocked down a peg because some of it being sort of pushed out of the way (though not very much of it, since there's very little high frequency activity in Academy mono that would knock it out of the spectrogram). And yeah: the 5.1 track from the US DVD sounds like this as well.

My usual test to check for mono doesn't apply here, by the way, because the left and right channels have completely different EQ. If they were at least properly balanced (in terms of both gain and frequency response), then inverting the phase of one side and then mixing down to 1 channel would cause phase cancellation to occur on almost the entire recording, but if the gain and/or EQ is significantly different then the phase cancellation doesn't work and you're just left with a horrible racket, which is exactly what happens here. This doesn't make me think that it's stereo, just that it's extremely poorly presented mono, as I'm suggesting based on all the other evidence I've just talked about.

But wait, I said "almost" all the info claims that the film is stereophonic. Why? Because the 2014 German DVD allegedly contains an English 1.0 mono soundtrack! However, it probably won't be very useful, given that it's heavily cut (not to mention low-bitrate Dolby AC-3 with PAL speedup).

What I might do is consider the right channel from the US LD the best of a bad bunch and take that as a mono track on its own, excluding that horrid pulsating left channel from both LDs. It's re-synchronised as 2 channels anyway so I can very easily leave it as lopsided 2ch, split them into two separate mono tracks, or discard one of them altogether (most likely the left channel).]]> <![CDATA[Demonstrating why "restored" mono sounds awful, feat. THE SWORD IN THE STONE (1963)]]> https://fanrestore.com/thread-3685.html Wed, 16 Dec 2020 23:21:15 +0000 pipefan413]]> https://fanrestore.com/thread-3685.html 's schtick.

Firstly, the packaging is wrong. This is the second time today I've had a LaserDisc sleeve lie to me. Earlier on I captured my letterboxed widescreen edition of LES MISÉRABLES: THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT, only to find that despite the sleeve proudly proclaiming that it contains the "original 16:9 high definition aspect ratio", it's actually heavily cropped 4:3 which means it's identical to the 4:3 copy I already captured. Now, I see this sticker on THE SWORD IN THE STONE...

Quote:Available for the first time on home video: Walt Disney's original mono soundtrack mix on the analog channels.

Enhanced stereo soundtrack mix located on the digital tracks.

... but when I capture it, this is immediately proven false. What it actually contains is two different versions of the mono soundtrack, one on analogue and digital left,  and one on analogue and digital right.  And holy crap, what a difference there is between them.

The left channel sounds pretty fantastic, plenty of magnetic tape his left in and the frequency response is fairly balanced. The right channel on the other hand has clearly had a very ham-fisted "restoration" job to remove all the tape hiss and general analogue noise, which makes it sound absolutely atrocious. Y'know, the old clock radio syndrome: somehow managing to sound muffled and too thin/brittle at the same time. So remarkably obvious is this difference in quality that somebody's commented on the LDDB page that the *right* channel is the original mono, presumably assuming that it must be the older/unrestored version because it sounds absolutely awful next to the much better left channel, thus the better sounding one *has* to be the "restored" version. But no, this is just what happens with mono soundtracks that have audible tape hiss.

Check this s**t out:

[Image: thesw-ordinthestone-monocomparison-side1.png]
[Image: theswordinthestone-monocomparison-side1-L.png]
[Image: theswordinthestone-monocomparison-side1-R.png]

To demonstrate what I mean about how bad this sounds, here's a quick back-and-forth sample of the start and then an early dialogue scene. One version is kept in the channels they're in on the LaserDisc (so panned to left and right, I've just muted one channel or the other in an alternating pattern) and the other is centre-panned as 1-channel mono.

2ch (L/R panned as stored on LaserDisc):
https://mega.nz/#P!AgHy2SJNBsOFVUZkbYoDE...W5JJSRM6hA

1ch (mixed down / centre panned):
https://mega.nz/#P!AgEHH1JVAkpONJ9WwmD-i...PEPsh08XMw

pw =
longlivetheKing

The right channel, as you can hear, is extremely muffled whilst also sounding very thin, as if it's being played through a tiny speaker (think clock radio / Game Boy) with a cloth draped over it or something. This is the sound of mono soundtracks in 2020, thanks to Criterion et al. It's really sad.]]> 's schtick.

Firstly, the packaging is wrong. This is the second time today I've had a LaserDisc sleeve lie to me. Earlier on I captured my letterboxed widescreen edition of LES MISÉRABLES: THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT, only to find that despite the sleeve proudly proclaiming that it contains the "original 16:9 high definition aspect ratio", it's actually heavily cropped 4:3 which means it's identical to the 4:3 copy I already captured. Now, I see this sticker on THE SWORD IN THE STONE...

Quote:Available for the first time on home video: Walt Disney's original mono soundtrack mix on the analog channels.

Enhanced stereo soundtrack mix located on the digital tracks.

... but when I capture it, this is immediately proven false. What it actually contains is two different versions of the mono soundtrack, one on analogue and digital left,  and one on analogue and digital right.  And holy crap, what a difference there is between them.

The left channel sounds pretty fantastic, plenty of magnetic tape his left in and the frequency response is fairly balanced. The right channel on the other hand has clearly had a very ham-fisted "restoration" job to remove all the tape hiss and general analogue noise, which makes it sound absolutely atrocious. Y'know, the old clock radio syndrome: somehow managing to sound muffled and too thin/brittle at the same time. So remarkably obvious is this difference in quality that somebody's commented on the LDDB page that the *right* channel is the original mono, presumably assuming that it must be the older/unrestored version because it sounds absolutely awful next to the much better left channel, thus the better sounding one *has* to be the "restored" version. But no, this is just what happens with mono soundtracks that have audible tape hiss.

Check this s**t out:

[Image: thesw-ordinthestone-monocomparison-side1.png]
[Image: theswordinthestone-monocomparison-side1-L.png]
[Image: theswordinthestone-monocomparison-side1-R.png]

To demonstrate what I mean about how bad this sounds, here's a quick back-and-forth sample of the start and then an early dialogue scene. One version is kept in the channels they're in on the LaserDisc (so panned to left and right, I've just muted one channel or the other in an alternating pattern) and the other is centre-panned as 1-channel mono.

2ch (L/R panned as stored on LaserDisc):
https://mega.nz/#P!AgHy2SJNBsOFVUZkbYoDE...W5JJSRM6hA

1ch (mixed down / centre panned):
https://mega.nz/#P!AgEHH1JVAkpONJ9WwmD-i...PEPsh08XMw

pw =
longlivetheKing

The right channel, as you can hear, is extremely muffled whilst also sounding very thin, as if it's being played through a tiny speaker (think clock radio / Game Boy) with a cloth draped over it or something. This is the sound of mono soundtracks in 2020, thanks to Criterion et al. It's really sad.]]> <![CDATA[STILL GAME: reinstating the original music]]> https://fanrestore.com/thread-3230.html Fri, 12 Jun 2020 14:13:07 +0000 pipefan413]]> https://fanrestore.com/thread-3230.html [Image: title.png]

reinstating the original music

For those of us who watched it at the time, one of the most iconic elements of the Scottish TV comedy STILL GAME was the lovably naff theme tune:



As Tom Urie quite rightly says at the start of the documentary STILL GAME: The Story So Far, that theme was a big part of the experience of living in Scotland while that programme aired (the documentary is something else I'd like to preserve somehow, since so far I can only find it on YouTube in crap quality with a bit cut off the start).

... So you can imagine how annoyed I was to fairly recently discover that on both the current run of DVDs and on Netflix (which presumably is made from the same masters), they replaced that iconic theme tune with some dodgy library music that sounds vaguely like a knockoff of the theme from Terry Gilliam's BRAZIL:



It goes further than this, too. Some specific episodes also used licenced music, but for the DVD/Neftlix have had it removed and replaced with library music (e.g. Green Onions in one episode has been replaced by a dodgy but legally distinct knockoff). Presumably, then, this is all to avoid paying those who wrote the music that was originally used for broadcast. Notably, the theme tune is not fully original: it heavily features sampling from an existing piece of music. It wasn't until the show came back after an almost decade-long hiatus in 2016 that the theme was restored to Netflix versions of the episodes, courtesy of a re-recording (that therefore doesn't use any sampling) by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (as discussed here: https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/tv/st...e-11926005). Even then, the new theme only applies to the new episodes (series 7 onwards), not any of the old ones... which are still stuck with the library music.

This has been bugging me so I looked into it and found that the original Scottish DVD releases (pressed in Glasgow) actually *did* have the original music, not just for the theme, but for the other music that was replaced later as well e.g. Green Onions. They're also in the original UK TV PAL format at 25 fps (like all the Scottish/UK DVDs), whereas it looks like Netflix has NTSC conversions.

You'd perhaps assume that this would mean that you could just get the old DVDs and watch them as-is, which is mostly what my intention is moving forward, except that...

1. Series 1 is all on one single-layer disc, so the video quality is lower than series 2 onwards and the separate disc of Hogmanay and Christmas Specials (it's 6 approximately 30-minute episodes on a single ~4.38 GB DVD5 disc, so that's not hugely surprising). This is theoretically easily fixed though because the newer DVD version with the incorrect music is on a dual-layer DVD9, which presumably means it's also been encoded at quality more similar to the later DVD releases of the rest of the series.

2. Only the first 3 series (and, bizarrely, the fourth and final special on the Hogmanay/Christmas disc) have the original music on their first DVD pressings. From series 4 onwards, the programme started to gain some recognition outside of Scotland with limited broadcasts and a wider DVD release for the rest of the UK, which was when they started replacing everything with the library music (they also changed the format of the episode titles, making them less Scottish so that it wouldn't put non-Scots off, or something... which is daft for a show that's entirely centred around foul-mouthed Scottish pensioners). For the remaining 6 series and 3 specials, as far as I am aware, there is no available source for the original music unless they re-run them on iPlayer, and even then I don't have the means to capture audio unless it's done through my sound card (which will sound like crap and necessitate recording lossy encoded audio to PCM, significantly increasing file sizes). For series 1-3 and that one final 2007 special, the old DVDs have the original audio albeit only in 192 kbps Dolby AC-3 (stereo, it being from the days of SD TV).

3. I would have simply edited the original theme on to the beginning and end of the episodes for series 4 onwards that didn't get the original theme on DVD, but that wouldn't work because the music overlaps with other audio in every episode (it fades out as the episode starts and sound effects / dialogue become audible as the music is still playing; similar thing at the end credits).

4. I've just discovered that at least one episode (specifically series 6, episode 6/7) also has missing dialogue, at least on the Netflix version. Around 2 mins and 25 seconds in, Tam lifts some change out of the pub puggy and says something to two other characters, except that there is no audio whatsoever despite his lips moving and the characters reacting to what he said. Thus far, I don't know if the iPlayer version would have been the same or not, or if there's any DVD that fixes it. It's certainly the same on this one from YouTube, which I'm guessing is probably from a DVD:



In other words, all I can really do for the time being is restore the audio from the old series 1 DVD to the newer series 1 DVD in order to preserve a half-decent video encode alongside the original music. Series 4-6 and 3/4 of the specials will need to continue to exist with the library music for now. To do anything more than that, I'd need to find a viable source for the original audio, which would most likely require figuring out how the hell to extract audio from iPlayer (think "WEB-DL" rather than "WEBrip")... and they're not even on iPlayer right now anyway. Annoyingly, I think I just missed them as well: I recently noticed that some of the old episodes were back on iPlayer but most of them had already expired. Now, it's only series 7-9 that's still there.

If anybody thinks they might be in a position to help with this in any way, please PM me!

P.S. Just for good measure, by the way, the Netflix episodes are also in the wrong order and incomplete: most of the specials are missing, and the one that actually is included is put in completely the wrong place (far earlier than it aired) which causes a huge spoiler for later developments if you haven't seen it before!]]> [Image: title.png]

reinstating the original music

For those of us who watched it at the time, one of the most iconic elements of the Scottish TV comedy STILL GAME was the lovably naff theme tune:



As Tom Urie quite rightly says at the start of the documentary STILL GAME: The Story So Far, that theme was a big part of the experience of living in Scotland while that programme aired (the documentary is something else I'd like to preserve somehow, since so far I can only find it on YouTube in crap quality with a bit cut off the start).

... So you can imagine how annoyed I was to fairly recently discover that on both the current run of DVDs and on Netflix (which presumably is made from the same masters), they replaced that iconic theme tune with some dodgy library music that sounds vaguely like a knockoff of the theme from Terry Gilliam's BRAZIL:



It goes further than this, too. Some specific episodes also used licenced music, but for the DVD/Neftlix have had it removed and replaced with library music (e.g. Green Onions in one episode has been replaced by a dodgy but legally distinct knockoff). Presumably, then, this is all to avoid paying those who wrote the music that was originally used for broadcast. Notably, the theme tune is not fully original: it heavily features sampling from an existing piece of music. It wasn't until the show came back after an almost decade-long hiatus in 2016 that the theme was restored to Netflix versions of the episodes, courtesy of a re-recording (that therefore doesn't use any sampling) by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (as discussed here: https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/tv/st...e-11926005). Even then, the new theme only applies to the new episodes (series 7 onwards), not any of the old ones... which are still stuck with the library music.

This has been bugging me so I looked into it and found that the original Scottish DVD releases (pressed in Glasgow) actually *did* have the original music, not just for the theme, but for the other music that was replaced later as well e.g. Green Onions. They're also in the original UK TV PAL format at 25 fps (like all the Scottish/UK DVDs), whereas it looks like Netflix has NTSC conversions.

You'd perhaps assume that this would mean that you could just get the old DVDs and watch them as-is, which is mostly what my intention is moving forward, except that...

1. Series 1 is all on one single-layer disc, so the video quality is lower than series 2 onwards and the separate disc of Hogmanay and Christmas Specials (it's 6 approximately 30-minute episodes on a single ~4.38 GB DVD5 disc, so that's not hugely surprising). This is theoretically easily fixed though because the newer DVD version with the incorrect music is on a dual-layer DVD9, which presumably means it's also been encoded at quality more similar to the later DVD releases of the rest of the series.

2. Only the first 3 series (and, bizarrely, the fourth and final special on the Hogmanay/Christmas disc) have the original music on their first DVD pressings. From series 4 onwards, the programme started to gain some recognition outside of Scotland with limited broadcasts and a wider DVD release for the rest of the UK, which was when they started replacing everything with the library music (they also changed the format of the episode titles, making them less Scottish so that it wouldn't put non-Scots off, or something... which is daft for a show that's entirely centred around foul-mouthed Scottish pensioners). For the remaining 6 series and 3 specials, as far as I am aware, there is no available source for the original music unless they re-run them on iPlayer, and even then I don't have the means to capture audio unless it's done through my sound card (which will sound like crap and necessitate recording lossy encoded audio to PCM, significantly increasing file sizes). For series 1-3 and that one final 2007 special, the old DVDs have the original audio albeit only in 192 kbps Dolby AC-3 (stereo, it being from the days of SD TV).

3. I would have simply edited the original theme on to the beginning and end of the episodes for series 4 onwards that didn't get the original theme on DVD, but that wouldn't work because the music overlaps with other audio in every episode (it fades out as the episode starts and sound effects / dialogue become audible as the music is still playing; similar thing at the end credits).

4. I've just discovered that at least one episode (specifically series 6, episode 6/7) also has missing dialogue, at least on the Netflix version. Around 2 mins and 25 seconds in, Tam lifts some change out of the pub puggy and says something to two other characters, except that there is no audio whatsoever despite his lips moving and the characters reacting to what he said. Thus far, I don't know if the iPlayer version would have been the same or not, or if there's any DVD that fixes it. It's certainly the same on this one from YouTube, which I'm guessing is probably from a DVD:



In other words, all I can really do for the time being is restore the audio from the old series 1 DVD to the newer series 1 DVD in order to preserve a half-decent video encode alongside the original music. Series 4-6 and 3/4 of the specials will need to continue to exist with the library music for now. To do anything more than that, I'd need to find a viable source for the original audio, which would most likely require figuring out how the hell to extract audio from iPlayer (think "WEB-DL" rather than "WEBrip")... and they're not even on iPlayer right now anyway. Annoyingly, I think I just missed them as well: I recently noticed that some of the old episodes were back on iPlayer but most of them had already expired. Now, it's only series 7-9 that's still there.

If anybody thinks they might be in a position to help with this in any way, please PM me!

P.S. Just for good measure, by the way, the Netflix episodes are also in the wrong order and incomplete: most of the specials are missing, and the one that actually is included is put in completely the wrong place (far earlier than it aired) which causes a huge spoiler for later developments if you haven't seen it before!]]> <![CDATA[Koyaanisqatsi - Remastered Soundtrack]]> https://fanrestore.com/thread-2174.html Tue, 29 May 2018 07:27:38 +0000 Synnove]]> https://fanrestore.com/thread-2174.html
Through a few sources, such as the laserdisc PCM* and the original album release, that I consider to be the best quality, I’ve been able to put together a “restored” version that I think sounds much improved.

Official soundtrack mix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNNJrHR53ZA

Remastered soundtrack mix: https://youtu.be/q86RvSxAy04

This will be released in 5 channel and stereo mixes.

*The laser disc PCM will also be released as a preservation. I performed a complete restoration on it, removing clicks, pops, dropouts, line hum, and reduced hiss and noise.]]>
Through a few sources, such as the laserdisc PCM* and the original album release, that I consider to be the best quality, I’ve been able to put together a “restored” version that I think sounds much improved.

Official soundtrack mix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNNJrHR53ZA

Remastered soundtrack mix: https://youtu.be/q86RvSxAy04

This will be released in 5 channel and stereo mixes.

*The laser disc PCM will also be released as a preservation. I performed a complete restoration on it, removing clicks, pops, dropouts, line hum, and reduced hiss and noise.]]> <![CDATA[LaserDiscs needed for replacing BD audio]]> https://fanrestore.com/thread-802.html Wed, 23 Mar 2016 23:13:52 +0000 DoomBot]]> https://fanrestore.com/thread-802.html Thought an on going list was needed for LDs, you can say either you own it, have it captured, or it should be acquired for preservation.
If you have it captured, specify whether it's analog, or digital and bit perfect.  IN RED MEANS WE HAVE IT

A list of movies remixed from mono that BusterD found https://www.hometheaterforum.com/communi...ks.339481/

Wanted for preservation.....

48 hrs
7th Voyage of Sinbad, The
Adventures in Babysitting    Bronan has
An American Werewolf in London Purchased
Apocalypse Now Laserdisc : PCM/AC3 (Any and all Soundtracks from the myriad LD editions of AN) alexpeden2000 purchased Chris Solo has
Beetlejuice  Purchased
Blazing Saddles
Bounty, The
Cape Fear  Purchased
Christine  Lil Brutto has
Creepshow
Dances with Wolves  Chris Solo has DC and theatrical version
Dawn of the Dead  [ID6683HB] Purchased
Dirty Harry: For Original Mono Soundtracks, Most likely the older P&S LDs. For Stamper     I just bought [12483]
Donnie Brasco ? or find Cinema DTS disc
Duel  - US BD does have 2.0 DTS that i have     Lil Brutto has LD
Easy Rider
El Mariachi - USA LD [53616] or Japanese LD [SRLP-5085]
Emerald Forest, The  Chris Solo has
Enter The Dragon Laserdisc: PCM Mono (For syncing to the US Blu-Ray)
Entity, The
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Fletch
Fright Night - Twilight Time BD does have 2.0 DTS that i have
French Connection, The
Forbidden Planet Laserdisc: PCM Mono from The Criterion LD (For syncing to the US Blu-Ray)
French Connection
Golden Voyage of Sinbad, The (1973)
Gremlins 2  Bronan has
Groundhog Day   [52296] Purchased
Hard Target [PILF-1913]
Harry and the Hendersons [40677]   Purchased
High Plains Drifter Laserdisc: PCM Mono (For syncing to the US Blu-Ray)
Jason and the Argonauts  synced by bronan
Legend (1985) US LD [40193]  Purchased
Monster Squad, The  - Olive Films BD has 2.0 DTS
Night of the Creeps
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest  alexpeden2000 purchased
Outlaw Josey Wales Laserdisc: PCM Mono (For syncing to the US Blu-Ray)
Philadelphia Experiment, The
Platoon Special Edition  [PSE95-58] or [PSE95-59WS]
Poltergeist Laserdisc: AC3 (70mm?) (Any and all Soundtracks from the myriad LD editions of Poltergeist)
Poltergeist II - The Other Side   [ML100940] Chris Captured
Pulp Fiction
Red Dawn Laserdisc: Original Dolby Stereo PCM (For syncing to the US Blu-Ray) Wolverines!       Purchased
Rocky Horror Picture Show, The: Chase Surround
Silver Bullet
Silverado  bendermac has
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)
Spartacus Laserdisc: Dolby Stereo PCM mixdown of original 70mm tracks (For syncing to the US Blu-Ray) BusterD, Captured
Sorcerer (1977) http://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/02992/12009/Sorcerer
Taxi Driver  Chris Solo and alexpeden2000
Trainspotting Criterion  [CC1477L]  Purchased
Tron
Two Evil Eyes
Wild Bunch Laserdisc: Original Mono PCM (For syncing to the US Blu-Ray)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Young Guns Chris Solo has



Disney animated films we have on LD, what's been captured, and what we still need to acquire. also any info on the LD audio and LD disc: digital, analog, mono, stereo that sort of thing. IN RED MEANS WE HAVE IT
                                                                             
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1937 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarves  FrankT owns it, just needs to capture it - Chris Solo has

1940 - Pinocchio   Chris Solo has

1940 - Fantasia  Chris Solo has

1941 - Dumbo  024 AS Digital Mono - captured bit perfect

1942 - Bambi   Chris Solo has

1942 - Saludos Amigos

1945 - The Three Caballeros  Chris Solo has

1946 - Song of the South  Chris Solo has

1946 - Make Mine Music

1947 - Fun and Fancy Free

1949 - The Adventures Of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

1948 - Melody Time

1950 - Cinderella Chris Solo has

1951 - Alice in Wonderland   036 AS digital mono - captured bit perfect

1953 - Peter Pan   Chris Solo has

1954 - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

1955 - Lady and the Tramp  PILA-3012 analog mono, THX Dolby surround - captured

1957 - Old Yeller

1959 - Sleeping Beauty

1961 - 101 Dalmatians

1963 - The Sword in the Stone

1964 - Mary Poppins

1967 - The Jungle Book

1968 - The Love Bug

1970 - The Aristocats

1971 - Bedknobs and Broomsticks

1971 - The Million Dollar Duck

1973 - Robin Hood

1974 - Herbie Rides Again

1977 - Pete's Dragon

1977 - The Rescuers   [1399 AS]  Chris Solo has

1977 - The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

1981 - The Fox and the Hound

1983 - Mickey's Christmas Carol

1985 - The Black Cauldron

1986 - The Great Mouse Detective  Purchased

1988 - Oliver & Company

1988 - Who Framed Roger Rabbit Laserdisc: Original Dolby Stereo PCM (For syncing to the US Blu-Ray)  [940 AS] captured

1989 - The Little Mermaid  captured by zeropc from bendermac's THX LD

1990 - The Rescuers Down Under    Chris Solo has

1990 - Ducktales The Movie - Treasure of the Lost Lamp

1991 - Beauty and the Beast Chris Solo has

1994 - Aladdin   1662 CS THX Dolby Stereo Surround - captured  bit perfect

1994 - The Lion King  Chris Solo has

1995 - Pocahontas  Chris Solo has

1995 - A Goofy Movie

1995 - Toy Story Lil Brutto has the THX LD and DTS LD, also FrankT owns an LD now, just needs to capture it

1996 - The Hunchback of Notre Dame  Chris Solo has

1996 - James and the Giant Peach]]> Thought an on going list was needed for LDs, you can say either you own it, have it captured, or it should be acquired for preservation.
If you have it captured, specify whether it's analog, or digital and bit perfect.  IN RED MEANS WE HAVE IT

A list of movies remixed from mono that BusterD found https://www.hometheaterforum.com/communi...ks.339481/

Wanted for preservation.....

48 hrs
7th Voyage of Sinbad, The
Adventures in Babysitting    Bronan has
An American Werewolf in London Purchased
Apocalypse Now Laserdisc : PCM/AC3 (Any and all Soundtracks from the myriad LD editions of AN) alexpeden2000 purchased Chris Solo has
Beetlejuice  Purchased
Blazing Saddles
Bounty, The
Cape Fear  Purchased
Christine  Lil Brutto has
Creepshow
Dances with Wolves  Chris Solo has DC and theatrical version
Dawn of the Dead  [ID6683HB] Purchased
Dirty Harry: For Original Mono Soundtracks, Most likely the older P&S LDs. For Stamper     I just bought [12483]
Donnie Brasco ? or find Cinema DTS disc
Duel  - US BD does have 2.0 DTS that i have     Lil Brutto has LD
Easy Rider
El Mariachi - USA LD [53616] or Japanese LD [SRLP-5085]
Emerald Forest, The  Chris Solo has
Enter The Dragon Laserdisc: PCM Mono (For syncing to the US Blu-Ray)
Entity, The
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Fletch
Fright Night - Twilight Time BD does have 2.0 DTS that i have
French Connection, The
Forbidden Planet Laserdisc: PCM Mono from The Criterion LD (For syncing to the US Blu-Ray)
French Connection
Golden Voyage of Sinbad, The (1973)
Gremlins 2  Bronan has
Groundhog Day   [52296] Purchased
Hard Target [PILF-1913]
Harry and the Hendersons [40677]   Purchased
High Plains Drifter Laserdisc: PCM Mono (For syncing to the US Blu-Ray)
Jason and the Argonauts  synced by bronan
Legend (1985) US LD [40193]  Purchased
Monster Squad, The  - Olive Films BD has 2.0 DTS
Night of the Creeps
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest  alexpeden2000 purchased
Outlaw Josey Wales Laserdisc: PCM Mono (For syncing to the US Blu-Ray)
Philadelphia Experiment, The
Platoon Special Edition  [PSE95-58] or [PSE95-59WS]
Poltergeist Laserdisc: AC3 (70mm?) (Any and all Soundtracks from the myriad LD editions of Poltergeist)
Poltergeist II - The Other Side   [ML100940] Chris Captured
Pulp Fiction
Red Dawn Laserdisc: Original Dolby Stereo PCM (For syncing to the US Blu-Ray) Wolverines!       Purchased
Rocky Horror Picture Show, The: Chase Surround
Silver Bullet
Silverado  bendermac has
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)
Spartacus Laserdisc: Dolby Stereo PCM mixdown of original 70mm tracks (For syncing to the US Blu-Ray) BusterD, Captured
Sorcerer (1977) http://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/02992/12009/Sorcerer
Taxi Driver  Chris Solo and alexpeden2000
Trainspotting Criterion  [CC1477L]  Purchased
Tron
Two Evil Eyes
Wild Bunch Laserdisc: Original Mono PCM (For syncing to the US Blu-Ray)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Young Guns Chris Solo has



Disney animated films we have on LD, what's been captured, and what we still need to acquire. also any info on the LD audio and LD disc: digital, analog, mono, stereo that sort of thing. IN RED MEANS WE HAVE IT
                                                                             
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1937 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarves  FrankT owns it, just needs to capture it - Chris Solo has

1940 - Pinocchio   Chris Solo has

1940 - Fantasia  Chris Solo has

1941 - Dumbo  024 AS Digital Mono - captured bit perfect

1942 - Bambi   Chris Solo has

1942 - Saludos Amigos

1945 - The Three Caballeros  Chris Solo has

1946 - Song of the South  Chris Solo has

1946 - Make Mine Music

1947 - Fun and Fancy Free

1949 - The Adventures Of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

1948 - Melody Time

1950 - Cinderella Chris Solo has

1951 - Alice in Wonderland   036 AS digital mono - captured bit perfect

1953 - Peter Pan   Chris Solo has

1954 - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

1955 - Lady and the Tramp  PILA-3012 analog mono, THX Dolby surround - captured

1957 - Old Yeller

1959 - Sleeping Beauty

1961 - 101 Dalmatians

1963 - The Sword in the Stone

1964 - Mary Poppins

1967 - The Jungle Book

1968 - The Love Bug

1970 - The Aristocats

1971 - Bedknobs and Broomsticks

1971 - The Million Dollar Duck

1973 - Robin Hood

1974 - Herbie Rides Again

1977 - Pete's Dragon

1977 - The Rescuers   [1399 AS]  Chris Solo has

1977 - The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

1981 - The Fox and the Hound

1983 - Mickey's Christmas Carol

1985 - The Black Cauldron

1986 - The Great Mouse Detective  Purchased

1988 - Oliver & Company

1988 - Who Framed Roger Rabbit Laserdisc: Original Dolby Stereo PCM (For syncing to the US Blu-Ray)  [940 AS] captured

1989 - The Little Mermaid  captured by zeropc from bendermac's THX LD

1990 - The Rescuers Down Under    Chris Solo has

1990 - Ducktales The Movie - Treasure of the Lost Lamp

1991 - Beauty and the Beast Chris Solo has

1994 - Aladdin   1662 CS THX Dolby Stereo Surround - captured  bit perfect

1994 - The Lion King  Chris Solo has

1995 - Pocahontas  Chris Solo has

1995 - A Goofy Movie

1995 - Toy Story Lil Brutto has the THX LD and DTS LD, also FrankT owns an LD now, just needs to capture it

1996 - The Hunchback of Notre Dame  Chris Solo has

1996 - James and the Giant Peach]]> <![CDATA[Laserdisc DTS List (and OOP DTS DVDs)]]> https://fanrestore.com/thread-770.html Sat, 05 Mar 2016 22:25:20 +0000 jerryshadoe]]> https://fanrestore.com/thread-770.html
THIS THREAD IS FOR LASERDISC DTS ONLY!
EDIT: OOP DTS DVDs are allowed too, but NO Cinema DTS please.
For now I have nothing to add to this list, but let's get the discussion started hereWink

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THIS THREAD IS FOR LASERDISC DTS ONLY!
EDIT: OOP DTS DVDs are allowed too, but NO Cinema DTS please.
For now I have nothing to add to this list, but let's get the discussion started hereWink

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