spyd3r
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- Comment on August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget. 3 months ago:
Yes sir, and it actually has better quality picture than the DVDs, although it is way more impractical and expensive.
- Comment on August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget. 3 months ago:
- Comment on NPR: 'Star Trek: Discovery' ends as an underappreciated TV pioneer 6 months ago:
I must have missed something, what did they pioneer?
- Comment on [DS9] Runabout Entering The Gamma Quadrant | 4K 7 months ago:
Exiting the wormhole into the Gamma quadrant for the first time, to be exact.
- Comment on [DS9] Runabout Entering The Gamma Quadrant | 4K 7 months ago:
That little detail was memory holed before the episode was even over.
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- Comment on Star Trek DS9: Quark's Root Beer Analogy (LaserDisc) [4K] 8 months ago:
It’s insidious!
- Comment on Star Trek DS9: Quark's Root Beer Analogy (LaserDisc) [4K] 8 months ago:
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- Comment on “You don’t grab power, you accumulate it quietly, without anyone noticing.” – Grand Nagus Zek 8 months ago:
Thanks, I’ve got an early proof of concept as well, if you guys are interested:
mega.nz/file/UCVgDJTY#Rn2dyxHgTg67kg2EwQpehVej7KX…
It was deliberately left as unprocessed as possible, so it’s more of a demonstration of what’s there to work with, not what is possible with full reconstruction, and I have since enlisted the help of someone far more masterful than me to take over in that department so any final results will blow this away. One thing I will say is unfortunately the LDs are still plagued with the same source media issues that the DVDs are, so it’s not a perfect solution, but the digital compression is non-existent, YAY!
As for Voyager LD’s I have about 75% of them, they are incredibly rare and only available from Japan.
- Comment on “You don’t grab power, you accumulate it quietly, without anyone noticing.” – Grand Nagus Zek 8 months ago:
see this comment
- Comment on “You don’t grab power, you accumulate it quietly, without anyone noticing.” – Grand Nagus Zek 8 months ago:
This is being researched and experimented with at this very moment. A couple episodes are currently in the testing phase.
Normally a DVD would win a matchup for PQ, except in rare instances, but there are a lot of problems with the ST DVD releases which evens the playing field.
Paramount jamming 4x45 minute episodes plus extras onto a single layer 4.7gb disc is a major one. This adds in a ton of lossy compression artifacts and degrades the image substantially. By comparison, the LD has 1 episode per disc and there is no compression because its analog (Not without its own downsides though).
- Comment on “You don’t grab power, you accumulate it quietly, without anyone noticing.” – Grand Nagus Zek 8 months ago:
I should note that this image is not really representative of LD technology in it’s natural state. I am using a special device (Domesday Duplicator) that captures the raw signal from the laser sensor and dumps it to a disk for software decoding, thereby bypassing all the video circuitry.
This is the raw output from the decoder:
- “You don’t grab power, you accumulate it quietly, without anyone noticing.” – Grand Nagus Zeksh.itjust.works ↗Submitted 8 months ago to startrek@startrek.website | 13 comments
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- Comment on Star Trek on LaserDisc, if you've got the right equipment, it looks amazing! (samples in the description) 10 months ago:
- Star Trek on LaserDisc, if you've got the right equipment, it looks amazing! (samples in the description)youtu.be ↗Submitted 10 months ago to startrek@startrek.website | 13 comments
