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excellent picture, great sound, and the movie wasn't bad. Good cast, now that I can see them, unlike the earlier releases.

Appears to be complete movie, from opening credits to closing credits.

8/8/8

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nice TC.
sound was a lil quiet......but picture was madd clear.

Video 9.5
Audio 8
Movie 9

KEEP IT UP!

REWRITTEN POST:

from full release, as a tc:

v 10 (if it wasnt for the spots and cig burns it looks like a dvdrip)

v 10 (not dts, but best mono sound ive seen besides saosins old ts audio)

m 8.5-9 (excellent movie, fast paced, good storyline, really enjoyed it, might even watch again sometime...)

overall the best tc ive ever seen, and im not mentioning unleashed because that was from a foreign dvdscr, not a tc.

props to asteroids, ure release was so good that im not even gonna replace it with a dvdrip. im gonna keep this copy!

Meh

Though it hardly surprises me, yet again a group releases a hollywood movie with the speed increased so it matches 25fps. There is no reason to do that on a DivX/XviD release, period. I really don't like it when all the actors sound just a little bit like the chipmunks, since the audio's been sped up to match.

Fortunately, my AVIsynth script works like a charm at getting around that.

Anyway, the rating:


Video: 8
Crisp and sharp, but really dark in places. Face detail is lost because of this. If you're going to convert this to DVD/KVCD/whatever I highly suggest you do some preprocessing and crank up the contrast/brightness.

Audio: 9
Would be fine, but again, it's been sped up. Detail in the high ranges has been lost because of that, even if you use something like AviSynth to slow it back down. Otherwise it's great, not necessarily DVD quality but certainly hard to tell the difference. However, bonus points for makng the video and audio durations the same; if there's any startup delay on the audio it's impossible to fast-forward a movie in AviSynth without it going out of sync. That doesn't happen in this one.

Movie: 7
It had its moments, but the resolution didn't really resolve anything, and some of the plot twists were cliche and/or retarded. The movie seemed very jumbled. Action was pretty cool though.


And for anybody wanting to watch the entire film in one file at the proper framerate without having to switch files or mess with a playlist or any of that nonsense, download and install AviSynth and then do the following:

Make a file called "whatever.avs".
Open the file in notepad and paste this in:

AVISource("asteroids-the.island.cd1.avi",true)++AVISource("asteroids-the.island.cd2.avi",true)
AssumeFPS(23.976,true)

Save, close notepad. Open the file with your Media Player of choice.

Watched this a few days ago, and enjoyed this very much...

If this was fixed up correctly with chapters, menu, and DD5.1 or DTS, this could truely pass for retail DVD... I didn't see any cigarette burns or any major artifacts on this release which suprised me...

V: 9
A: 7 - mono, but still very good
M: 8 - One of the better "Summer Flicks"..

Nice release, Asty!

Excellent Quality

V:9
A:9

brilliant movie....
Viv@! Asteroids !

how about a descent copy of Charlie and the chocolate factory ?

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Originally posted by clarkieboy
how about a descent copy of Charlie and the chocolate factory ?

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Very nice divx TC, one of the best ive seen.

Video: 8.5
Audio: 9
Movie:7.5

xTFCx

beautiful rls.. havent watched the flick yet though

9.5/9.5/?