Posted by electrochrome on 04/10/07 06:54

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.

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