Yes sir, and it actually has better quality picture than the DVDs, although it is way more impractical and expensive.
Yes sir, and it actually has better quality picture than the DVDs, although it is way more impractical and expensive.
Watching that episode now
Sony has been the enemy of PC users/enthusiasts for the last two decades, they can go to hell.
Remember that CD rootkit debacle?
I must have missed something, what did they pioneer?
Most of the stuff I was looking for couldn’t even be found on store shelves. Before online shopping and streaming, if it wasn’t the latest release or biggest hit, you probably wouldn’t be able to find it locally. You’d waste time browsing up and down aisles of junk only to leave disappointed, then try again at another store, hoping that by some miracle they’d have it.
Then I discovered that terabytes upon terabytes of content was available, nearly instantly and conveniently, on the internet. All you had to do was click a few buttons and you had what you wanted. That was about 25+ years ago, and the recording industry still has not adapted to offer a service that even comes close to what was available back then.
That lifetime subscription I bought ages ago sure is nice!
Everything past Far Cry 1 shouldn’t have been called Far Cry
Exiting the wormhole into the Gamma quadrant for the first time, to be exact.
That little detail was memory holed before the episode was even over.
I only buy games at super ultra mega steam sale prices for this reason. If I lose a $5 game… so what
It’s insidious!
Youtube’s encoder isn’t the greatest and degrades the quality of the video, so I have also uploaded it here
This 100%. The only thing that even makes arena shooters worth playing is having skilled opponents and teammates, without that it’s literally just mindless button mashing. When the player base goes away, the game dies with it.
The new button style, buck/boost driver, crenelated bezel, usb plug, new coating options, shorter height and the weight savings are all great improvements, giving the E07 a much needed update, and making it more practical (and less of a display piece) than my old TiCu one. Oh, and these FFL351 emitters are fire. 🔥🔥🔥
Thanks, I’ve got an early proof of concept as well, if you guys are interested:
https://mega.nz/file/UCVgDJTY#Rn2dyxHgTg67kg2EwQpehVej7KX3piYc8eHvDa3pMXU
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 (and are still in 480i format) 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.
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).
Here’s a preview of a test render:
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. I also used Gigapixel AI to upscale the image to 4K, which works great, but you could get good results from regular scaling too.
This is the raw output from the decoder:
For the price I couldn’t say no, will post comparison pics with the emisar d4k UV eventually.
So I can pay $1 for a game and you can infer the other $32?