Tuned in to Rumic World!

LDs are literally falling apart due to disc rot. It's actually better to rip them and play the digital video files. There's a mad dash to backup LDs before they all die.

>>2225
Neat, will do. I mean, UY already has a very proper backup, but still.

>>2234
You should consider building a Domesday device if you plan on building an LD collection. It by-passes the analog out and takes its signal directly off the disc. That's why there has been an uptick in ripping LDs lately. We finally have a way to do it without the use of a capture card.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azsk21MpbUk

Leaving this here because thread reminded me that it exists.

>>2235

Thankfully, this player has composite out, so I can stick with the Elgato. It's not as good as Domesday but it requires no modification and no soldering knowledge.

>>2235

Not really necessary unless you are doing preservation quality rips. I would be completely shocked if someone hasnt ripped this show already considering how popular it was.

>>2223

What player do you have? I have 2 and oddly enough stuff looks better on my older proscan one.
My capture device messes up the aspect ratio leaving rips looking funny.

>>2236
>>2237
The UY LD have not been ripped since we have had plentiful DVD and BR releases of the series. It's probably just better

>I would be completely shocked if someone hasnt ripped this show already considering how popular it was.

lol. just lol

People are only now starting to do LD and 35mm fan transfers, and it's heavily focusing on smaller series and one-shot OVAs or films that never got proper DVD releases because LD are dying. A "big" series has a bunch of LD and a bunch of episodes, and they often have other releases so they're not bothering. Really, the people doing these kind of things are niche hobbyists.

Most major Hollywood films got LD releases. How many have LD rips? Almsot none.

>>2237

A Pioneer CLD-V760, which is one of their LaserKaraoke machines. Sadly, no remote, picture quality is pretty good though.

Capture devices always fuck up aspect ratios, that's unfortunately an inherent flaw with the NTSC analog video signal where they're 640x480 with a pixel aspect ratio of 0.909(ish) so it's actually 720x480 with overscan. I've managed to get pixel perfect results already with a really intensive deinterlacing and rescaling process.

>>2239
I thought I needed to intercept the RF signal, as in before it gets output, like replacing the PPU in a NES kind of deal. But yeah, if LDrips don't exist, I can make it happen. Quality's way noisier on account of it not being stored quite as well as it should be, but it's also a 40 year old LaserDisc, it's a miracle it works. I'll have a picture of how the quality looks like later, it is 1:40 AM where I am.

>>2239

Most hollywood LDs ive come across are rotted already, and having multiple discs for a single movie(which may have just one disc thats rotted or multiple)is alot more work than a single disc for an ova/episode.
Nobody is putting in the work yet but for most of them its already too late.
As for anime rot seemingly hasnt been as much of an issue from my experience with them.

>>2240

My device of choice captures 740x480 on composite and while some stuff you dont really notice it some you cant help but see it.

Back from my adventure of ripping the discs.

In short, they're fucked. Oversaturation and a bad telecine leads to a ton of ghosting. I thought it might be my deinterlacer, but no, this is a constant issue - note that the top half of the frame of Ataru and Benten are from the previous film frame but the bottom half is from the current film frame. It's even worse if I deinterlace it to 60 FPS. I'm REALLY glad for the BDrips now, they're so good by comparison.

Oh, wait, we have a limit of 3 images per post, hold on, I'm gonna make them their own thing

This is what almost every single frame looks like, old frame, updates the bottom half, then new frame. Or sometimes it's old frame, ghosting, new frame, or just a ton of ghosting. This wasn't terribly uncommon back in the day, but like… man, imagine paying 330,000 yen for this?

Oh, and the black bars are there in the video, I already accounted for overscan. You can see in the previous image, the BDrip has a bit more than the LDrip does.

Post a video comparison, the ghosting isnt something i get on every disc i play but some its really noticable on.

>>2244

Why a video comparison when I can just upload the videos themselves? I mean, I presume you guys have the BDrips, that is.

UY 15 30 (655MB): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Nq7CvyTPrlNW6QtyKiS9yDOv1Ej9-8L0/view?usp=drive_link

UY 15 60 (1.46GB): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U2OK_ZuARuVJ7iJyXbcZCaET-TrzNInz/view?usp=drive_link

UY 16 30 (625MB): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MKj4NMs7pZe_qGttMahrpWbH9vA0_BpJ/view?usp=drive_link

UY 16 60 (1.33GB): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BfIMTaxBdYTDkGEe4v5VruqFqCyHeLYX/view?usp=drive_link

The videos are quite noisy, I thought it might be related to all the other crap I have connected to my recording setup, so 16 was recorded bypassing everything other than a distribution amplifier (i.e. my fancy-ass splitter so I can see the TV and on my capture card with full brightness), video signal is genuinely that noisy, this is probably where you use the Domesday. Not sure what's with the audio buzz, probably caused by ground loop? But its frequency is based on the video signal. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

>>2245

Because a) a short video(clip) says alot more than a still image for comparisons, and b) i aints got no google account to log into i cant even view these :p

The only real complaint i ever had from my laserdiscs was the distortion looking crap at the very top or bottom only during scene transitions on some, but not all, of them. I thought it was something on my end for a long time but ive seen it on modern releases of stuff also.

>>2246

You should be able to download these without a Google account, uploading these to my own domain name would take me way too long due to their ftp server being kinda ass but I can reupload these to mega, if you'd like?

>>2247

You dont have to do that, i just wanted to see a clip not the whole episode.
I put ripped clips of stuff in the /cel/ webm thread of stuff(not rumic related)every now and then i have but you cant really make comparisons with stuff that i scrunched down to fit into the filesize limits.

>>2248

Ah, oops, here's a 20 second clip of the 60 FPS deinterlace. Ideally, it should be hard cut like the blu-ray rip or maybe 1 frame of ghosting due to poor deinterlacing on my end (i.e. it wouldn't be visible on the 30 FPS version) but feel free to play it frame by frame, especially at the cow section, the source material is borked.