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McTinkerson posted:Cheapest way to get 12A housings now is to machine down 13B ones. Technically for me it's go to a shed I know of and extract one from the 6-7 complete good quality motors hoarded from 20 years ago. There's even twin dizzy ones there.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:There is a lot of people who would kill for replacement SA22C dash. There's almost none left without cracks, repairs are difficult, any that are in good condition cost $$$$ and no one does a OEM quality replacement. Pre-FC 13B (4- and 6-port) housings... Seconding a dash. I'm going to attempt to fix mine. At least mine doesn't have that speaker grille right in the middle to *also* fix. Just a big crack right down the middle to the center stack. McTinkerson posted:Cheapest way to get 12A housings now is to machine down 13B ones. I am *really* looking forward to getting my 3D printer. There's a dude on RX7Club selling 3D printed headlight linkage and windshield wiper linkage bushings, which is brilliant, since Mazda literally never sold those, or even the links by themselves, in the case of the wipers. I bought a set for the headlights on my '79. I plan on building links for the wipers with 5/16" heim joints.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:gently caress yeah That’s loving awesome! I love it when someone converts really old footage from the turn of the century and cleans it up and fills in the gaps so it runs at modern frames per second, it really brings it to life. There’s one of a pre-war downtown Berlin monorail ride that someone restored and it’s absolutely surreal. I really hope they do that with more old racing footage!
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Olympic Mathlete posted:gently caress yeah Mother of god. I always loved that clip but restored is a nice touch. Love watching him take his hand off the wheel to manually shift those gears. loving wild
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Modus Man posted:That’s loving awesome! I love it when someone converts really old footage from the turn of the century and cleans it up and fills in the gaps so it runs at modern frames per second, it really brings it to life. There’s one of a pre-war downtown Berlin monorail ride that someone restored and it’s absolutely surreal. I really hope they do that with more old racing footage! Even if you’re not interested in the subject matter, They Shall Not Grow Old (and the how-it-was-made featurette) is loving amazing. They basically threw major-motion-picture budget and effects people at 100+ year old film stock. It’s fantastic.
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Modus Man posted:That’s loving awesome! I love it when someone converts really old footage from the turn of the century and cleans it up and fills in the gaps so it runs at modern frames per second, it really brings it to life. There’s one of a pre-war downtown Berlin monorail ride that someone restored and it’s absolutely surreal. I really hope they do that with more old racing footage! There's a group of weird history perverts that hate poo poo like this and i pity then. Wasabi the J fucked around with this message at 12:18 on Dec 22, 2020 |
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Wasabi the J posted:There's a group of weird history perverts that hate poo poo like this and i pity then. Oh no! They photographed Mona Lisa on a digital camera and put it on internets!
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I can understand the photographs being part of larger context and arguments about them being inaccurate as an academic issue, but these projects actually make me want to observe and study the content and look into more context.
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Solar Coaster posted:Mother of god. I always loved that clip but restored is a nice touch. Love watching him take his hand off the wheel to manually shift those gears. loving wild I always liked him beating on a NSX and showing him heel-toe. In loafers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUVkVB3SUf4
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Wasabi the J posted:There's a group of weird history perverts that hate poo poo like this and i pity then. “Oh, no! They’re making history accessible to the common people! Whatever shall they do without we academics to guide them!” Kind of like Gutenberg’s press, the Bible printed on it, and the Church. I get some of their point, but making these videos in no way erases the originals.
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I'm unfortunately old enough to remember Ted Turner colorizing movies. My god, they were awful.
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Colostomy Bag posted:I'm unfortunately old enough to remember Ted Turner colorizing movies. My god, they were awful. People lost their poo poo over it. I just pushed a button on my TV that made it display in black & white. 
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Colostomy Bag posted:I'm unfortunately old enough to remember Ted Turner colorizing movies. My god, they were awful. I had honestly repressed sooooooo much of that, holy poo poo memories.
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MrYenko posted:I had honestly repressed sooooooo much of that, holy poo poo memories. Colorized and pan-and-scanned. Those were serious crimes on films.
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Colostomy Bag posted:I'm unfortunately old enough to remember Ted Turner colorizing movies. My god, they were awful. I got Night of the Living Dead with a Mystery Science Theater style commentary track, but you can only hear it when you watch the color version. Mike Nelson even makes fun of the colorization, which isn't the fault of the movie!
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Motronic posted:Colorized and pan-and-scanned. Those were serious crimes on films. Yeah; there was no magic button on my old Zenith for getting round that horrific bullshit.
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PainterofCrap posted:People lost their poo poo over it. I wonder if this is something that can be done in VLC or other media players. And yeah gently caress pan-and-scan, that was just awful.
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As Nero Danced posted:I wonder if this is something that can be done in VLC or other media players. Yeah just crank the saturation slider all the way down in the effects settings in VLC MPC has an explicit grayscale filter that does the same thing
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I'm all for banning fullscreen showing of things shot in widescreen, but that also should apply to widescreen versions of things shot fullscreen.
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As long as the original photo/video/recording are still available, I’m fine with working to modernize historical stuff. Like that reworked Senna clip is amazing. It’s when the original work is destroyed or hidden that I start to take issue.
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Fifty Three posted:My partner has a few full-screen DVDs and I'm considering stealthily replacing them with proper widescreen editions My Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels DVD is double sided and has full frame on one side and widescreen on the other. If I remember right, they have the labels on the wring side so I always ended up with fullscreen.
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Humphreys posted:My Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels DVD is double sided and has full frame on one side and widescreen on the other. If I remember right, they have the labels on the wring side so I always ended up with fullscreen. My Spaceballs DVD is like that and I can never remember if the label is supposed to go up or down.
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Once I figured those out, I would put them in the case in the same orientation they would go into the player, so I never had to look at the label again.
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Modus Man posted:That’s loving awesome! I love it when someone converts really old footage from the turn of the century and cleans it up and fills in the gaps so it runs at modern frames per second, it really brings it to life. There’s one of a pre-war downtown Berlin monorail ride that someone restored and it’s absolutely surreal. I really hope they do that with more old racing footage! Semi-related to the restoration stuff - I've been watching vids on Youtube of people taking movies that used de-aging or wonky CGI for face tracking & using deep fake tech to make it look better. I hope studios can use that tech nowadays to remaster some older movies, a good example I found was TRON Legacy when someone re-did all of the Clu scenes with young Bridges face, it looks so much better than the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW6PKX5KD-U Channel has a bunch of other good ones too like the newer SW movies with Leia & Tarkin, it's pretty cool to see the differences
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Just saw this on Vice Grip Garage's latest video: Guess I need to find that and buy a couple. edit: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001292801540.html Also available in black with red, for a sporty shitbox. Also, for kastein and others, Hillbilly/Redneck Edition!: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001358246892.html  Darchangel fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Dec 23, 2020 |
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BOOTY-ADE posted:Semi-related to the restoration stuff - I've been watching vids on Youtube of people taking movies that used de-aging or wonky CGI for face tracking & using deep fake tech to make it look better. I hope studios can use that tech nowadays to remaster some older movies, a good example I found was TRON Legacy when someone re-did all of the Clu scenes with young Bridges face, it looks so much better than the original: It amazing how much computers have evolved. These guys recreated the original Tron CGI that took months of pain staking frame by frame work on state of the art hardware in a single day on a desktop PC, while learning a new piece of software in the process. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2-yhFTCCzY
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Uthor posted:It amazing how much computers have evolved. Jesus Christ Tron is almost 40 years old. This makes me really feel the years.
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:My Spaceballs DVD is like that and I can never remember if the label is supposed to go up or down. I think it was because the label has 'widescreen this side' etc and then unsure if they mean to have it up or thats literally the side with it. Never made the mistake with my copious amounts of LaserDiscs though. I did promise myself to not buy anymore this year a few months ago... then a seller reminded me I wanted Hackers and Blade boxset and I caved in. Now I'm entertaining offers on the rare red disc Evil Dead 2.
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Humphreys posted:I think it was because the label has 'widescreen this side' etc and then unsure if they mean to have it up or thats literally the side with it. Yeah one side says "wide screen" and the other says "full screen" and I always have the conversation with myself of "am I supposed to be able to read the label or should I point the label towards the laser?" I don't watch it often enough to remember. If I ever get my home theater together, I've toyed with the idea of finding a laserdisc player just for grins. Do they have HDMI out or were they too early for that?
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:If I ever get my home theater together, I've toyed with the idea of finding a laserdisc player just for grins. Do they have HDMI out or were they too early for that? It's 1970s tech and entirely analog. The best you'll find is likely component video. I just helped a friend pack up all kinds of laserdisc poo poo that is literally going into a museum. It was his dad's stuff who was one of the project leads at RCA during the development. The patents have his name all over them, and some of them are required for things like VCRs and even DVD/BluRay from what i understand. Whole load of interesting stuff.
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:If I ever get my home theater together, I've toyed with the idea of finding a laserdisc player just for grins. Do they have HDMI out or were they too early for that? They only have a Composite signal output. Mine has S-Video but it's really the same signal. I do however have a DVDO Edge video processor which is like a retrotink/OSSC for home theatre use, that cleans up the image quite a lot. I put movies onto a 65in UHD TV and depending on the film, people don't seem to notice lack of quality.
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SlapActionJackson posted:IIRC, laser discs stored Luma and chroma separately on the disc, so using s-video really did give you better picture quality than composite. If you can find me an LD with those properties I will be very very interested. Part of a script from a currently in production YT video I may or may not be involved in: quote:"The video stored on the disc is an analog FM Composite signal.... so with S-Video, the Composite signal is split right inside the player. Some of the internal comb filters built into the player are not as high quality as the ones in most modern TVs or some DVD Recorders. Save maybe the late release, high end laser disc players which have decent internal converters.
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Humphreys posted:If you can find me an LD with those properties I will be very very interested. Is there any way to achieve a higher resolution from laser disc, if it is analog? For example, the original analog film from old movies can be resampled to get "4k" copies of old movies made on film. My understanding of this is film doesn't have a traditional resolution, it has grains, and often film grade can be scanned at high resolutions. However, I don't believe VHS tape can be rescanned at a higher resolution for reasons I can't remember. I just remember a youtube video (probably techmoan) talking about how old movies on film can get 4k releases but tv shows that shot on tape can not get 4k releases.
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