The Past, Present & Future of Home Cinema.

[zoidberg]

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[zoidberg]

With the following I could write "the past of home cinema" or "the vintage video returns?"

Well, finished to watch Cutthroat Island on PAL IT laserdisc; obviously a lower quality in comparison to DVD - but not too distant in resolution; no MPEG artefact but analog noise that is noticeable only in few shots; colors... are great, still today, and even if chroma resolution is low, it doesn't show, and the whole vision was pretty cinematic - apart a strange behaviour, that I've always noted also at the CRT times; it's like a... can't explain better... like watching a movie projected onto not a classic smooth screen, but like on a jute fabric, where plot is evident



well, not SO evident, but it gives you the idea... I strongly suspect it's a mixture of less-than-perfect PAL mastering and (most probably) bad PAL laserdisc circuitry.

So, watching a perfectly mastered NTSC laserdisc on a MUSE laserdisc player should still give a sort of "wow factor" - I'll take back my X9 in action ASAP!

I think this noise comes from the fact that the PAL video/audio RF slightly overlap eachother due to bandwidth restrictions.

[spoRv]

I think this noise comes from the fact that the PAL video/audio RF slightly overlap eachother due to bandwidth restrictions.

Most probably... is there a solution/workaround?

[zoidberg]

I think it's 'baked' into PAL discs. Maybe the good folks at lddb.com can help.

[Colek]

There was thread somewhere on lddb.com about guys who used to try getting loseless video and audio stream from Laserdisc, they succeded with video at least, should go ahead and check it out, I have same player that they were working on.

[zoidberg]

Colek, what you've described is the happycube ld-decode project. It can software decode video and analogue audio from a captured rf stream.

[CSchmidlapp]

So this would bypass the laser disc players video renderers / filters and capture a RAW feed from the Disc?

[zoidberg]

So this would bypass the laser disc players video renderers / filters and capture a RAW feed from the Disc?

That's the long and short of it! It avoids all of the electronic stages that can introduce noise and artifacts (smear, ringing etc.). Unfortunately it only works with a specific type of video capture card and is written in python. In theory any player can be used so long as the rf output can be tapped.

Apologies CSchmiddlapp, you set up this thread to avoid derailing a previous thread and now we've derailed this one!

Back on topic... you checked out any UHD players yet?

[CSchmidlapp]

So this would bypass the laser disc players video renderers / filters and capture a RAW feed from the Disc?

That's the long and short of it! It avoids all of the electronic stages that can introduce noise and artifacts (smear, ringing etc.). Unfortunately it only works with a specific type of video capture card and is written in python. In theory any player can be used so long as the rf output can be tapped.

Apologies CSchmiddlapp, you set up this thread to avoid derailing a previous thread and now we've derailed this one!

Back on topic... you checked out any UHD players yet?

Ive changed the Thread title bud.
To interesting to abort this conversation.

i was looking at UHD PC drives. Which I'll have to wait for.

[zoidberg]

That's cool. Any excuse to talk laserdiscs  

There's a thread about ld-decode on this very site:

Unofficially Official LD-Decode Thread