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Posted by Kevin on 04/11/07 21:30
"electrochrome" <metachromatic@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Kevin babbled incoherently:
> "What's your point? That you don't know how to operate a DVD player?"
>
> What's my point?
> My point is that transferring old VHS tapes to DVD usually
> reduces noise and enhances the picture, especially if you do it
> with a decent proc amp and a video enhancer like the
> Vidicraft Detailer III. It helps to have an excellent VCR, too,
> like a Toshiba w808 or Toshiba M785 or a JVC HR9911. So
> it's especially worth doing for classic old films that will never
> be released on the new hi-def formats.
>
> But in the end, video quality just isn't anywhere near as
> important as the content. Some of the best stuff comes
> from silent films with crappy contrast, lots of splices,
> and mediocre details due to the crummy lenses they
> uses back in 1919 or 1922. The 1925 Lon Chaney
> Phantom of the Opera, the 1919 Secret Of Slumber
> Mountain, the 1928 Mysterious Island are all classics
> and infinitely better than any of the sludge in theaters
> today. "The Lost Chaplin" from PBS, 3 hours, remains
> a must-see. I'd far rather watch that than a blu-ray disc
> of some Adam Sandler cinematic turd.
>
> The point is that the content of the video is what counts,
> and as Gene Siskel used to point out repeatedly, "Every
> problem with every bad film ever made in Hollywood could
> always have been fixed by one guy with a typewriter."
>
> And between AviSynth and Sony VEGAS and Adobe
> Premiere Pro and VirtualDub + filters _ all the codecs
> I've got, running the full range from huffyuv to H264 to
> XVid to Ogg Theora, I've forgotten a lot more about
> capturing and processing video and authoring DVDs
> than you'll ever know, Kevin. You want to know what
> my point is? That's my point, newbie. Here's a nickel,
> kid. Go get yourself a real AVID setup.
You mentioned transferring VHS to DVD in your original post? If so, I
missed that --- totally. Good for you. You are taking the time and
expending the effort to get those classic films and other pieces of video
archived in a format that will stand the ravages of time and preserve those
works. You deserve a brownie button for that. Now that you have
sufficiently impressed all of us with your obviously superior skill and
knowledge in the field of video technology, sit back and enjoy the rewards.
And, just for the record, my video system is just fine.
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