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Old Posted Mar 31, 2022, 7:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Zepfancouver View Post
I'd be curious to see the quality of the original Laser Disc (if there are any differences in quality).
Massive difference. It looks all muddy because of digital compression.
Youtube cranks up the compression when adjoining frames vary wildly, that's why the image archives are a tiled mess while the time lapses are excellent.

There's a few people working on this right now. In the last few years a group developed a device called the Domesday Duplicator to skim the raw analog modulation data out of a laserdisc and save it, resulting in a near-perfect copy of a stamped disc without any preprocessing by the player's electronics.
I have one disc. I know where another and possibly a third is. The Domesday Duplicator allows you to merge multiple captures to try and build a flawless copy. I have no timeline when that might become available as I am not associated with that project.
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