Not bad. Picture quality is not that great, a bit blurry, but the sound is excellent.

Best out there so far, but not much better than the SVCD picture wise, so unless you are happy d/l 4gigs for not much gain, probably stick with svcd.

8/9/8

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This was a surprise to me actually... I got the sample just as a joke thinking it was going to be a TS on a DVD, but then I checked it out and wow!

Video was pretty good for such a long movie, let alone that it is a TC. And as mentioned above, the sound is real nice too! If you can't wait the 6 months till the DVD comes out, then get this.

Video 6/10 - 1.85:1 anamorphic picture (mentioning this because I expected a letterbox job) and not too bad at all. Lots of grain and image is blurry, but this is just me being picky. You will not find anything better until the DVD-Screener, and even then you won't have the 5.1 sound and you'll probably have the black-white scenes, or an annoying scroller.

Considering I am rating this movie like a real DVD, I think it's pretty damn good. Too bad the movie wasn't

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converting this made the aspect ratio off a little and made the telecine pixelate alot. I made my own..and it with more chapters and a better background with soundtrack and special behind the scenes photos and features. And the video from the telecine was untouched and clear on my copy.

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dvdfactory 3.0v with motion background & slideshow with music straight from the van helsing soundtrack and a music video from the movie...

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Correct, a 4pass vbr is the scene minimum requirement for qaulity. However the TC VanHelsing disk is not good quality when upscaled to a plasma TV. I beleive that alhtough your SVCD may lok slightly better, it def wont sound better.

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I took the svcd telecine combined the mpegs, demultiplex'd them...enhanced the audio with audicity to Dolby Surround and converted to dvd with tmpgenc 3.0 xpress. I then made custom menus with dvdfactory 3.0v with motion background & slideshow with music straight from the van helsing soundtrack and a music video from the movie...all on 1 dvd. And the video didn't block up or look so pixelated like this one. took about 5 1/2 hours. But mine is much better..lol

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Ahh, this is one of those personal choices. Yours probably is blurry to the point that details in pixelation/film grain is not even visible. But the part that confoosed me the most is when you said your video is "untouched" in your original post Personally I like super sharp image where you can clearly see the stubble on people's faces

But I must admit you're dedicated you your Helsing I'll be waiting till the DVD retail comes out (I think sometime this summer).

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Not trying to contribute to this apparent 'soon to be flame-war', but an Xbox doesnt exactly provide the clearest image quality as compared to many standalone players.

I am, however, curious how it would look in a high-end standalone... If you could try it in one and post your findings, that would be interesting... For me anyway.

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Knock it off, knuckleheads!

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First off let me delele my previous post. My shit looks better enough said. If you get a copy of Adobe Premiere 6, Tmpgenc 3.0 Xpress, and DVD Maestro or DVD Factory 3.0version anyone can make a better dvdr...

enough said...

6/5/8....even the audio during the movie is low for some reason on this version and the aspect ratio is wrong. I'm done enough said. I not going to debate with you all. If you want a better dvdr do it yourself. Anyone can do a better dvdr and encode than this release.

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Have to be one of the best telecine ive seen......sound was awesome.....

9/9/10 for a telecine......

ozzie

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yeah i mean this is some quality stuff boys, always quality with the tc dvdrs, i love them

10/10

couldnt ask for more really, great job.

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