2016-07-31, 10:27 AM
Hello together,
when it comes to movie preservations, I'm normally active in the originaltrilogy forum, but in order to extend the range, I wanna give it a try as suggested by a member there and hope I can gain your interest.
It's about "True Lies" where until today, sadly no decent HD version exists. Although there seem to be a few HDTV recordings and also a rip of the former D-Theater release on D-VHS in 1080i29.97, none of these even closely treats this movie as it would deserve it quality-wise.
So far, shame on Cameron, but that's the usual irony I guess, having fans who care more about a piece of art than the ones who created it - a strange world.
Now there is a copy on eBay for sale for about 650 USD and while I'd be even willing to buy it on my own for further processing and also processing, my first problem is that I reside in Germany and shipping would be expensive and full of customs hassle.
However, I'd have someone who could have the movie scanned in the US for about another 1000 USD plus problably another several hundred for the hard disks as we're talking about 6 to 21 TB depending on the chosen raw format. Since we're not talking about the original here but an (even if allegedly very good) positive copy print, I would assume that a slightly more compressed format would still by far exceed the quality which the source has to offer.
As the details could be further discussed once the necessary amount of people interested in this become apparent, I'd roughly estimate the project of about 2500 USD to have the film scanned without any further adjustments together with the Cinema DTS audio.
As I'd be interested to keep the print copy at the end for collection, I'd be willing to pay more of course, but the total sum I simply can't spend on one single movie alone.
So anyone interested in having a raw cinematic experience of True Lies?![Smile Smile](https://fanrestore.com/images/smilies/smile.png)
little-endian
when it comes to movie preservations, I'm normally active in the originaltrilogy forum, but in order to extend the range, I wanna give it a try as suggested by a member there and hope I can gain your interest.
It's about "True Lies" where until today, sadly no decent HD version exists. Although there seem to be a few HDTV recordings and also a rip of the former D-Theater release on D-VHS in 1080i29.97, none of these even closely treats this movie as it would deserve it quality-wise.
So far, shame on Cameron, but that's the usual irony I guess, having fans who care more about a piece of art than the ones who created it - a strange world.
Now there is a copy on eBay for sale for about 650 USD and while I'd be even willing to buy it on my own for further processing and also processing, my first problem is that I reside in Germany and shipping would be expensive and full of customs hassle.
However, I'd have someone who could have the movie scanned in the US for about another 1000 USD plus problably another several hundred for the hard disks as we're talking about 6 to 21 TB depending on the chosen raw format. Since we're not talking about the original here but an (even if allegedly very good) positive copy print, I would assume that a slightly more compressed format would still by far exceed the quality which the source has to offer.
As the details could be further discussed once the necessary amount of people interested in this become apparent, I'd roughly estimate the project of about 2500 USD to have the film scanned without any further adjustments together with the Cinema DTS audio.
As I'd be interested to keep the print copy at the end for collection, I'd be willing to pay more of course, but the total sum I simply can't spend on one single movie alone.
So anyone interested in having a raw cinematic experience of True Lies?
![Smile Smile](https://fanrestore.com/images/smilies/smile.png)
little-endian