[Jeff]

Time for an X-Files update. Season 2. This is just the HD broadcast master. The Blu-ray master hasn't been made yet. If you zoom in on the comparison screenshots, the difference is astronomical compared to the DVDs. There is a pattern on Mulder's suit that was not there on the DVD (bottom screenshot).

DVD (episode 3):



HD:



DVD (episode Ascension):



HD:

[Jimmy]

I wish they would hurry up. I really want to watch the entire series, but I'm gonna wait until it looks like it should.

[Lunick]

[MYHOUSE.MAP]

 Lunick, on 25 April 2014 - 01:22 AM, said:

Broken like Duke4's servers.

[Lunick]

 MYHOUSE.MAP, on 25 April 2014 - 02:59 AM, said:

Broken like Duke4's servers.

[Fox]

Reality TV oops

[Lunick]

[Person of Color]

Pfffffffhahahahahahha

[Lunick]

"Why Gabe Invented Steam Gif"

[Forge]

Fox, on 25 April 2014 - 04:51 AM, said:

Reality TV oops

they constantly have to re-shoot scenes and clip stuff together

i was watching a rerun the other day and noticed when a customer came in it was daylight outside, but when they left it was night time

[Daedolon]

That fucking nasty cropping.

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[Fox]

In episode 8 of Pawn Stars ("Time Machines"), a guy brings an old coke machine, which according to him, has been on his family for generations but he doesn't have room for it, so he decides to sell it. Then Rick Harrison takes it to Rick Dale to restore it.

Images:

Spoiler

Except that it's not the same machine. They are of different models, a Vendo 39 and a Cavalier 79.

Ignoring the coke machine problem, a few seasons later, the spin-off American Restoration reveals that the seller is an enployee of Rick Dale and his brother.

[TerminX]

MYHOUSE.MAP, on 25 April 2014 - 02:59 AM, said:

Broken like Duke4's servers.

Our server was up during the whole outage... things worked fine when the host started routing traffic to us again.

[Forge]

TerminX, on 25 April 2014 - 08:18 AM, said:

Our server was up during the whole outage... things worked fine when the host started routing traffic to us again.

.....blah,blah,blah,wild sex party, knocked over server tower, lube got into the router....

[Ivan Jäger]

[Jimmy]

Lunick, on 25 April 2014 - 05:24 AM, said:

/fat guy on skateboard gif/

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[Kyanos]

Just got a new android tablet, with a keyboard/case. Are the android beta tests still going on, how do I get in??

[TerminX]

Yeah, send me your Google+ account email.

[Lunick]

[Micky C]

This place lost some of the momentum gained from the beta thread when it went offline yesterday.

[TerminX]

Real life... not all fun and games.

[Ivan Jäger]

[X-Vector]

Daedolon, on 25 April 2014 - 05:40 AM, said:

That fucking nasty cropping.

I'm still not convinced that "protected for widescreen" guarantees it will work flawlessly in 16:9, it usually just means that the film crew makes sure no boom mics or other untoward objects are present in the visible area.
The upgrade in definition is fantastic though, you can even make out the stitching in Skinner's shirt collar.

More images on this forum: http://forum.blu-ray...208637&page=132

There are some limitations due to the way the show was shot (initially very dark with highly atmospheric lighting contrasts and lots of haze and fog) and some Edge Enhancement creeps up in places, but overall I'm glad the grain structure is left intact and there doesn't seem to be any obvious tampering with the original colour grading of the show.

[Lunick]

[Jeff]

X-Vector, on 26 April 2014 - 04:11 AM, said:

I'm still not convinced that "protected for widescreen" guarantees it will work flawlessly in 16:9, it usually just means that the film crew makes sure no boom mics or other untoward objects are present in the visible area.
The upgrade in definition is fantastic though, you can even make out the stitching in Skinner's shirt collar.

More images on this forum: http://forum.blu-ray...208637&page=132

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There are some limitations due to the way the show was shot

It was made in 1993, and a lot of TV shows weren't in widescreen at the time, but they knew it was coming. A show like Futurama was shot in widescreen, but cropped for 4:3 for DVD.

Keep in mind, this is not representative of the full quality. These are just syndication masters, where some people have reported that the US version is full 16:9, while the German version (these screenshots I posted) is cropped. I haven't seen any US versions of screenshots though.

Bottom line, wait until they release it on Blu-ray, then make your argument about it being cropped. I don't think they'd go through all that work of rescanning the film, supposedly to put it in true widescreen, only to end up with it being cropped.

Someone said something that there is a slight error in season 5 (which is widescreen), where you can see a prop guy handing Mulder something. Think the episode is called Bad Blood.

[Fox]

Lunick, on 26 April 2014 - 06:25 AM, said:

[Person of Color]

[Lunick]

I got some balls today

[Forge]

nice.
do they jingle too?

i had some ben wa's. constantly rattling them around and rolling them though my fingers while doing paper work. think i was driving everyone in the office insane because they disappeared one day.

[Lunick]

They make a satisfying 'clang' sound if you bang them together.