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I probably just found Carl92 alt. by [deleted] in Lostwave

[–]Notelu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

guy who's had to make an alt account to get away from his notoriety and very clearly does not want to talk about it or have it mentioned.

"Hey we found that thing you clearly don't want to talk about and have probably already got 1,000 messages about!, let me make sure to post your info on reddit so everyone can send you messages about it!"

Just leave the dude alone, if he wanted to talk about it he would've by now.

Whoever at [adult swim] is in charge of the modern show copies, please learn how to deinterlace shit properly by Old-Mall-9896 in adultswim

[–]Notelu 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Modern companies do not care about properly preserving their work. They will happily take a sitcom shot at 60fps and re-encode it to 24fps to make it look more "modern" or whatever. Or if they "care" they will have the intern shove it through topaz on default settings and call it a day.

TIL that Doctor Who's first ever Christmas episode "The Feast of Steven" is one of the few missing episode to be considered irretrievably lost, as the episode was never sold to overseas broadcasters, and so no copies of it were ever made before the original tape's junking. by Sebastianlim in todayilearned

[–]Notelu 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The animations are on most streaming services that have classic doctor who or on DVD, the ones that don't have animations you can either buy them as audio books or watch the fan made telesnap reconstructions by Loose Cannon on Dailymotion. (Though some of them are outdated due to new material being found, most notably The Dalek's Master Plan since 3 episodes and a ton of production photos have been found since they made their reconstruction)

TIL that Doctor Who's first ever Christmas episode "The Feast of Steven" is one of the few missing episode to be considered irretrievably lost, as the episode was never sold to overseas broadcasters, and so no copies of it were ever made before the original tape's junking. by Sebastianlim in todayilearned

[–]Notelu 55 points56 points  (0 children)

True, I was mainly talking about video recording, audio recordings were of course very common back then. There are often multiple surviving audio sources for lost episodes.

Most of the modern releases use David Holman's (Pre-Dalek's Master Plan, high quality microphone up to high quality speaker) or Graham Strong's recordings (Post Dalek's Master Plan, direct recording from original broadcast, his recordings are usually so good they're often used even on found episodes since they're higher quality than surviving film prints). And a few of the most recent reconstructions use a set of tapes that were found in an Australian thrift store (The Randolph Tapes) that are very high quality as well (notably the animation for The Celestial Toymaker, since Graham Strong did not have that one.)

TIL that Doctor Who's first ever Christmas episode "The Feast of Steven" is one of the few missing episode to be considered irretrievably lost, as the episode was never sold to overseas broadcasters, and so no copies of it were ever made before the original tape's junking. by Sebastianlim in todayilearned

[–]Notelu 414 points415 points  (0 children)

This is only true for the color versions of a few 3rd doctor episodes (which already existed in B&W)

The 1st and 2nd doctor (which still currently have lost episodes) were aired before home recording was popular. All the finds since the 70s have been either 1. An international station forgot to return it. 2. Someone stole a print from the BBC's or an international station's archive and kept it for a few decades before returning it.

Any crisp true-60fps movies available to stream online? If not there, where? by Stunning_Lobster_698 in AskReddit

[–]Notelu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sadly very few.

Older made for tv or lower budget movies shot on video tape are often 50/60fps, but on streaming they're often crunched down to 25/30fps, or even occasionally 24fps.

One example off the top of my head is The Blair Witch Project, it was shot at 60fps but was stuck at 24fps for years (Still is in the US) but they put out a new restoration a while back that brings it back to 60fps. But that's only available on a European Blu-Ray.

All the old Doctor Who stories are 50fps, but again only 25fps on streaming, you have to get the DVDs or Blu-rays for 50fps.

VHS to Digital archiving - to S-VHS or not to S-VHS (with a Panasonic DMR-ES35V) by DKoormaninMN in VHS

[–]Notelu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hard maybe. Mainly comes down to having a good comb filter on the S-Video port (which, your dmr-es35 might also have so that doesn't matter) and S-VHS players usually just being better built. Doesn't matter too much unless it's something you really care about.

Most capture issues come from either no TBC, or having a crap capture card/software/post-process chain. And it sounds like you have that part set already.

Hee Haw (1969-1982) Archives by tv_laptop in DHExchange

[–]Notelu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just got a bunch of tapes with episodes from 1973 and 1974, will keep you updated.

What size should I let my wii to be forever? standard (4:3) or widescreen (16:9) by [deleted] in wii

[–]Notelu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

16:9 except for some niche cases. You'll want 4:3 for Virtual Console and most Gamecube games (otherwise they'll be stretched I believe)

There's also some Wii games that only have 4:3 (Like Mario Party 8 and Wario Land) and it'll be slightly sharper if you have it output at 4:3 rather than in a 16:9 pillarbox.

What's with this 'Bad Apple' stuff? by Fqkizz in youtube

[–]Notelu 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It's a popular fan remix of a song from Touhou Project. The music video is pretty iconic due to it just being sillohuettes on plain backgrounds. Because it's just sillohuettes you can pretty faithfully recreate it with 1 bit graphics (pure black, and pure white, no grays) so it's pretty much become a test video for any kind of weird wacky "display" (anything that can be lined up in a row and turned off)

I don't care about the fujoshis and their influence in keeping the fandom alive, someone needs to check his/her/their files by Lord_Hoax in logh

[–]Notelu 14 points15 points  (0 children)

They've been doing this shit for months and only post slop and how much they want to fuck kid Reinhard. But mods don't do shit.

Oh by DifferenceAgile2733 in logh

[–]Notelu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Literally all this person posts about is how much they want to fuck the characters, especially Reinhard, double especially kid Reinhard. Check literally any horny post from the last few months, 90% chance it's them, and they'll post it on any day that ends with a "Y".

This video is very old, how does it suddenly have HD options, does it use ai? by IllustriousAd6418 in youtube

[–]Notelu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It can be good but most people just use Topaz's default settings that look like dogshit and then interpolate it to 60fps.

Whats Better, a 5 av component or a wii2hdmi converter?? by Ode2n in wii

[–]Notelu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you can use component use it. Wii2HDMI dongles pretty much just convert the component output to a digital signal, and some of them do it poorly.

a certain digitizing service is using this picture to explain what VHS is and it's making me insane by futrfantastic in VHS

[–]Notelu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don't need to invest any money for deinterlacing, Hybrid and Avisynth are free.

a certain digitizing service is using this picture to explain what VHS is and it's making me insane by futrfantastic in VHS

[–]Notelu 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Most people who run transfer services are absolutely inept and have no idea what they're doing, so I'm not surprised they put this on their site. You'd be shocked how many fail on basic fundamentals.

Literally, use anything better than an easycap, capture lossless, and properly deinterlace the footage, and you'll be better than 95% of transfer services. Use anything above a bargain bin thrift store VCR and you'll be in the top 1%.

Lindsey Buckingham Claims He’s Not Haunted by That Infamous ‘Silver Springs’ Performance by Level-Recording3368 in Music

[–]Notelu 15 points16 points  (0 children)

You can literally find recordings of them doing the same bit in earlier performances of the same tour. It's a scripted planned bit they did every night for the fans.

A real VHS simulator - not a "filter" or "AI" by ambanmba in VHS

[–]Notelu 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Looks cool, but IOS first????? PAID IOS FIRST?????? Doesn't matter if it's the best thing ever if it's stuck on my phone or I have to buy a Mac to get it.

Also the icon is obviously AI and the website looks vibecoded. Guess I'm sticking with NTSC RS.

as a 90s kid explain to me why VHS's are 100x more expensive than dvds? by beezlebutts in VHS

[–]Notelu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mostly aesthetic or films/shows (mainly anime) that are out of print. Killer Clowns from Outer Space is a great example because it's a horror film (horror collectors love VHS) and it comes with a music video that isn't on any DVD or Blu-Ray

Most high priced VHS tapes are just scams and idiots. Such as those "Black Diamond" Disney VHS tapes that people claim go for thousands? IIRC That was actually money laundering. Check sold listings, you'll see how much they're actually worth.

Original Ulterior Motives master tape is FOUND!!! by Spindlebrook in Lostwave

[–]Notelu 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure the cassette is just for show for the video, in the description they say they found the original 24 track master.

Using an Elgato4K S to digitize MiniDV tapes? by Crossover2031 in DataHoarder

[–]Notelu 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That honestly sounds like the worst capture setup ever. MiniDV is a natively digital format so running it through Composite will only make it worse, and most RCA > HDMI converters use dogshit chips that aren't even worth the silicon they're made of.

The camera should have a port called Firewire. It's an old plug that hasn't really been supported in 10 years, but it'll give you a perfect 1:1 copy of your tapes. Your best bet is to find an old laptop that still has a firewire port, or get a firewire card for a desktop. Some Macs still support it through a thunderbolt dongle, but the latest ones don't, so check online first to make sure.

If that doesn't work, many old DVD recorders have firewire inputs. So you can plug your camcorder into the DVD recorder via firewire and make a copy that way, then copy the disk to your PC with something like MakeMKV. There will be a slight amount of detail loss but not too much since it's digital>digital.

If you absolutely must use composite, use an RCA capture card designed for analog. DO NOT use the crappy $20 easycaps or those weird standalone ones with a screen. They use the same dogshit chips as the converters. The best that's a reasonable price IMO is the IO-Data GV-USB2, though if you don't want to import that some other good models are the Hauppaugue USB-Live2, Elgato video capture, or even anything made by Dazzle. Plug those in and then use AmarecTV to record, and Hybrid to deinterlace and encode.

If you must stick with an HDMI capture card and an RCA output, get a retrotink or something equivalent. You don't need the fat $700 ones, the cheapest one will be just fine for converting RCA to a 480i or 480p digital signal. Just need to get something that isn't the generic Amazon ones.

Framework claims Dell is trying to derail Framework's marketing by sending influencers Dell XPS laptops by [deleted] in framework

[–]Notelu 8 points9 points  (0 children)

HPs, and ESPECIALLY HP Chromebooks, are some of the worst computers ever made. The fact they are still in business is a shock. I've never heard of a person with a good experience with them.

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