I dont really think pictures or video captures (Done with cameras) really show how a laserdisc look like, they usually look better on camera pictures than in reality =) but, i thought i include some screen captures of the ultimate oz laserdisc. These have been captured through a blackmagic intensity hd without any form of compression and stored in uncompressed bmp:s. But, I did forget to deinterlace them, so some interlacing artifacts are present :/ trying to find my screen grabs of terminator 2 squeeze as well. I used a hld-x9 for playback.

I can't help but think that these pics just aren't doing the source material justice at all.

ucfmatt
I think you're slowly improving. I have Event Horizon only on region 2 DVD.

cpix

T2 is waste of time as who ever it was that did the film to transfer none of them that have been recycled re-released over and over the years look all the same same with same vile colour tone and issue that is common with someone who is not focused and knows what to look. and Its the same crap on True Lies The Abyss not so bad on ALIENS and I don't mean that crappy bluray that doesn't count! Also small hint in TITANIC but at least the engineer didn't f%()k up the whites looking how they do on bluray with seasick green tint!

I wonder if disclord knows who these milking video engineers are as its obvious they're ether colour-blind or are poor lousy low rated enigneer who has just got out of amatute school and Cameron might have been so tight to pay for a real professonal who knows what to look for.

and the BS THX laserdisc program with their BS "we look for the best film materials" that on most I've seen is tissue of lies. The first edition of letterbox T2 looks just like SE T2 with botched up colour balancing. And some video jerk dares to me or us we need to calibrate our TV or video projectors. Get stuffed you milking pr!cks!

If you're referring to my pictures, they are as raw as they come from a X9 at least, what you later get on a tv is a whole other matter

and the BS THX laserdisc program with their BS "we look for the best film materials" that on most I've seen is tissue of lies.

Oh, the "truly highly (e)xxagerated" certification? Here's an interesting story. Buddy of mine is really in to home theater, but he's been blinded by names and things he's read. So, he spends all sorts of money on thx certified stuff. Well, the power supply module in something died...so he bought one on eBay. Well, it lacked thx logos, so he asked me to see if I could "put the thx in it". I tore this amp all apart, because I was going to swap out power modules. What were the differences between them? A logo. The logo and maybe a specific brand of transistor. It was no better than the normal ones, there were no circuit redesigns, and the boards even had the same number.

Its a joke, plain and simple. Its a silly useless certification people bought in to because George Lucas said it was good.

but there were no special parts or anything like that for THX gear. A company could design an amp or receiver any way they wanted, it just had to meet THX's standards

Not sure I understand you cpix. Isn't what you get on TV the only thing that matters? What I mean is, who cares about the raw signal leaving the player since the only way you can actually view it is on some sort of display?

My problem with screenshots is they never look as good as the image on the TV when I'm watching it. The Event Horizon pics I posted look decent to me but the movie is really stunning on LD. If it wasn't for the occasional rainbow or lack of detail in a few long shots I wouldn't know if I was watching laserdisc or DVD.

in the tradition of cpix; I've also taken some raw source captures. The reason it took me so long to do this was I've been lazy and didn't unbox and configure this Dazzle "HD" video recorder. The large number of bad reviews were from people thinking it'd capture actual HD video. Oh well, it does a decent job of giving me interlaced DV. But here's a screenshot of my video editor. These seem to be already in the correct aspect. Left frame is raw interlaced video; you can see the some lines. Right frame is deinterlaced with Yadif. I've also applied a chroma smoother since DV is actually a 4:1:1 format. The noise around the V and I I believe is crosstalk, no, it looks like chroma checkboarding; the 504 from the bit I viewed it doesn't exhibit this...so I'll probably swap the 505 out for it till I figure out if the 505 is just that way or if it needs alignment.


Raw DV video of that is http://dewdu.de/logodv.avi

An (improper) AVI with H.264 of the same thing deinterlaced with chroma smoothing is at http://dewdu.de/logo.avi

At some point I want to capture the LD's I have that aren't on DVD or otherwise unique and have some insanely high-bitrate copies.