Disco Deep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PAL0uCT4jQ
I like the watery bubble effect on the artworks for Leviathan and The Deep.
| LaserDisc Database https://forum.lddb.com/ |
|
| What have you been watching? (2014) https://forum.lddb.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=6635 |
Page 12 of 16 |
| Author: | laserbite34 [ 19 May 2014, 16:48 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What have you been watching? |
Saw THE DEEP at the cinema Gaumont screen 2 back around June 1977. I rather enjoyed the film and that pike or what ever it was living in the ship below. Scary scene that was. Also nice John Barry, score. Wouldn't mind to saying yes I'd like to have the Lasredisc or bluray? |
|
| Author: | substance [ 19 May 2014, 17:22 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What have you been watching? |
I liked the deep too. It was a long time ago. I watched it on DVD. |
|
| Author: | laserbite34 [ 19 May 2014, 21:28 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What have you been watching? |
Disco Deep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PAL0uCT4jQ I like the watery bubble effect on the artworks for Leviathan and The Deep.
|
|
| Author: | nissling [ 19 May 2014, 21:37 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What have you been watching? |
Just finished watching The Terrorizer on Blu-Ray. An interesting piece of film that require both an overlook and a closer analysis. Recommended for fans of Asian dramas. Transfer was really excellent, almost perfect (although encoded in MPEG-2). Extremely film-like with no visible DNR, EE or artifacts. Rich textures, vibrant colors and good grain makes it feel like watching an pristine 35mm copy. A DVD was included so I tried out some scenes and it was nearly unwatchable in comparison to the BD. |
|
| Author: | disclord [ 19 May 2014, 22:16 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What have you been watching? |
nissling wrote: Just finished watching The Terrorizer on Blu-Ray. An interesting piece of film that require both an overlook and a closer analysis. Recommended for fans of Asian dramas. Transfer was really excellent, almost perfect (although encoded in MPEG-2). Extremely film-like with no visible DNR, EE or artifacts. Rich textures, vibrant colors and good grain makes it feel like watching an pristine 35mm copy. A DVD was included so I tried out some scenes and it was nearly unwatchable in comparison to the BD. If given a high enough nitrate and a transfer with no EE, MPEG-2 HD can be quite amazing - it has a different "look" than VC-1 or AVC and I think it's actually a bit better in conveying the film feel. I swear the studios are encoding DVD's with little or no care now because they look worse than the first generation DVD's or the test SD format discs. |
|
| Author: | substance [ 20 May 2014, 06:35 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What have you been watching? |
I agree i like the grainy look of mpeg-2. At high bitrates there is so little compression artifacts. |
|
| Author: | nissling [ 20 May 2014, 16:12 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What have you been watching? |
Actually, bitrate didn't seem very high (total disc was on 21 GB for a 110 minutes feature, no special features) yet it really shines on my setup. And I could've swear to god that it was a dual layered disc with AVC encoding when I saw it. The Blu-Ray has been OOP for a couple years but JSDVD still have some copies available. Get it while you can, it may soon be gone forever. A quick comparison. DVD:  BD:  Differences may not look dramatic on a small computer screen but notice how intense the Blu-Ray looks. There's detail everywhere and grain is 100% intact. It moves incredibly smooth. |
|
| Author: | firehorse_44 [ 21 May 2014, 02:55 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What have you been watching? |
Just viewed "White Squall" , the Japanese import LaserDisc. It appeared to have extra scenes, can anyone confirm that it is a different theatrical version ? Another Epic Ridley Scott creation .............. |
|
| Author: | chente [ 21 May 2014, 05:28 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What have you been watching? |
Just started this box set.  I had been on the fence for years about getting, but finally decided to take the plunge. I've watched the first disc and I am loving it. Some really enjoyable performances by artists I'd never heard of with the exception of Cab Calloway. A great variety of musical styles presented in 3-4 song narrative vignettes. I'm fascinated with it so far. |
|
| Author: | tasuke [ 26 May 2014, 22:48 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What have you been watching? |
just watched SPACE CAMP (1986) for the first time in many years. perfectly decent flick, IMHO, despite it's notoriously poor box-office performance during it's theatrical debut. i've both the 1986 VESTRON VIDEO and 1995 IMAGE reissue on LD, plus the 1986 VHS edition, also by VESTRON. i watched the '86 LD edition, good digital sound and noisy-but perfectly watchable video, with my 1988 PIO CLD-3030... http://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/42682/VL5 ... %281986%29 http://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/06446/ID3 ... %281986%29 |
|
| Author: | nikita70 [ 27 May 2014, 03:53 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What have you been watching? |
I just watched Space Camp on LD last week. I was satisfied with the PQ but it would have been nice if it had CC. |
|
| Author: | chente [ 02 Jun 2014, 07:02 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What have you been watching? |
Love me some Judy Garland  Really nice little movie. I thought I was getting the 1999 release but it ended up being an older 1989 release. Quality was still quite good even though it was only analog audio. Ray Bolger (the Scarecrow from Wizard of Oz) does some fantastic dancing in this one. Worth checking out. |
|
| Author: | kris [ 02 Jun 2014, 18:58 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What have you been watching? |
laserbite34 wrote: Saw THE DEEP at the cinema Gaumont screen 2 back around June 1977. I rather enjoyed the film and that pike or what ever it was living in the ship below. Scary scene that was. Also nice John Barry, score. Wouldn't mind to saying yes I'd like to have the Lasredisc or bluray? I was born In September 1977. Missed it by 2 months only
|
|
| Author: | nissling [ 02 Jun 2014, 22:27 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What have you been watching? |
I saw The Big Chill #123 (1983) [CC1233L] tonight on my setup. I recently got myself a DVDO Edge and I found out that it had better deinterlacing than my DVR-LX70D but inferior scaling. So after doing some experiments with my setup and letting the DVR-LX70D (1080i) go through my DVDO Edge (1080p), I got some really nice picture quality from it. It's really something special and I look forward to get either an X0 or X1. The film itself was an amusing experience but quite overhyped imo. I also found out that I've currently seen about 150 of my 323 Laserdiscs which is a surprise as most of my friends with 2-300 LDs have barely seen ten of them entirely. |
|
| Author: | substance [ 02 Jun 2014, 22:48 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What have you been watching? |
Scaling can only be done after de-interlacing. Your dvr deinterlaces video to 480p and scale to 1080p then interlace to 1080i. You should use edge first to deinterlace to 480p then dvr to scale up. Dvdo has very aggressive scaling thats why you dont like it. You can use negative values for edge enhancement and sharpness to make it more natural looking. |
|
| Author: | nissling [ 02 Jun 2014, 23:13 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What have you been watching? |
For real? I had no idea of that although I did set the DVR to highest progressive scan mode (which makes it look just like interlaced material due to all the combing). Either way, the DVDO Edge only has HDMI out and my DVR doesn't have HDMI in. And it looked better with 1080i going through the DVDO Edge than without the it anyway so I'm not unsatisfied with the results but I'll try to do some more experiments on my DVDO Edge. The scaling on it is, as you say, aggressive and generally unimpressive. |
|
| Author: | substance [ 03 Jun 2014, 19:59 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What have you been watching? |
Yep. I am %100 de-interlacing should be done in order to apply any scaling. I am not %100 whether the upscaling is to 540p or to 1080p for 1080i output. 540p makes more sense since each field would be 540lines in 1080i video output. Your DVR most likely bob/weaves for de-interlacing and reverses it with the same method after scaling or it uses the same de-interlacing algorithms in reverse to interlace. This way 1080i feed is similar to 480i in terms of de-interlacing. DVDO also has re-de-interlacing which can repair bad de-interlacing artifacts if de-interlacing was done prior to DVDO. |
|
| Author: | substance [ 03 Jun 2014, 20:03 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What have you been watching? |
Johnny Mnemonic (1995) (Uncut) [BELL-890] Japanese Cut is much better than the molested US cut. Cutting the street preaches(Dolby Lundgren) and Kitano(Takashi Kitano) scenes was a terrible idea!!! V: The Final Battle (1984) [14146] On third disc tonight. Then I will get to the TV series. So far its better than the remake. |
|
| Author: | chente [ 04 Jun 2014, 03:52 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What have you been watching? |
Haven't seen since the 70's http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/serpico/  Good looking print, movie doesn't hold up as well as I hoped. Haven't delved into the extras or booklet yet. |
|
| Author: | ffutures [ 08 Jun 2014, 20:31 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What have you been watching? |
Runaway (1984) I've been watching this while trying to sort out RGB output from the LD-V4300D I recently picked up. No luck with the RGB, but the composite video and sound on this one is very clear - turns out to be a 1995 transfer. I'm not set up to do image capture on this TV, but there are plenty of captures and clips on line. The plot (by Michael Crichton) is fairly straightforward - it's the near future and Tom Selleck is a cop who deals with runaway robots and robot-related crimes. The robots here are basic agricultural, industrial and domestic models, not androids, and look clunky and reasonably realistic. Another cop, played by Cynthia Rhodes, joins him as his new trainee. It gradually becomes apparent that more and more robots are going wrong, and that the cause is sabotage. Eventually they trace this to a criminal mastermind (played by Gene Simmons) who uses some very nasty weapons including miniature guided missiles, crab robots with acid fangs, etc. to derail the investigation, killing several people along the way. This ends in a climax in which Selleck (who is afraid of heights) has to climb the girders of a new building to rescue his son, who is being held hostage for important robot schematics. Needless to say Simmons eventually falls victim to his own trap, and suffers a lethal dose of acid from the robot crabs. It's actually not a bad little movie - the technology seems fairly authentic for its day (with e.g. jibes about an old model robot that still uses an 8088 processor, as in the original IBM PC) and the plot makes a reasonable amount of sense. There are some flaws, but if you like SF / technothrillers and it comes your way it's worth taking a look. There's a DVD version, don't know how it compares, or how the PAL and NTSC versions compare. |
|
| Page 12 of 16 | All times are UTC [ DST ] |
| Powered by phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group http://www.phpbb.com/ |
|