Just finished watching the whole rls. I think this release it absolutely beautiful. It has almost perfect colors(which is quite rare these days for a TC). The only thing wrong with it in fact, is the bit o croppin as it's 4x3 ws, but definately not 16x9. I am as happy as could be with this one!

Video - 9
Audio - 9
Movie - 8

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Good Shit....Okay Now Bye!

10/9/6 Movie was decent but not great..

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8/8/6

Very nice release, glad I waited. Was a bit dissapointed with the movie though. Nothing really seemed to happen and the ending was shit. Thought Dakota Fanning wasn't bad. Like I read in a previous post, for a 10 year old in a world getting took over by aliens, she took it pretty well!

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not a general rating, but tc raiting

solid 10 for video, as close to perfect it gets... I haven't watched the entire release but I watched from when the first tripod appears until they get to the van as well as the ferry scene and didn't notice a bit of pixelation, even during the overhead shots with all the people moving around. there's a small amount of general reel artifacts but if anything I find it adds

sound gets an 8.5 only because i've seen this twice in the theatre and I know how badly this needs to be heard in full surround


the movie get a 9.5... the movie was far more than I could have expected, especially from a "summer blockbuster" the .5 is lost simply because, altough I liked the ending, I found it rather abrupt

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Well well, quite a release from XViD. I'm rather impressed. EXCEPT THAT IT'S THE WRONG F%$#ING FRAMERATE. F%$#ing hell guys, when will you release groups learn that speeding a movie up to match 25fps isn't okay? Seriously. Why doesn't anybody nuke for that? I would....

Fortunately I know how to work AviSynth, so I was able to write an AviSynth Script to slow it back down to the proper speed on the fly. As an added bonus, it effectively "joins" both the files as it plays, which means I didn't even notice where the filebreaks were when I was watching it. No messing around with playlists, no delays, just one seamless movie. I'll post the how-to at the bottom for anybody who cares.


Anyway, the review.

Video: 9

Excellent quality, I could easily believe this to be a DVD were it not for the cropping. The dark color theme of the flick helped it though, so something bright and cheery might not have looked quite so DVD-esque. Cropping is a definite downside though, but not a severe one. The framerate is a serious issue which I am amazed nobody else has addressed yet.

Audio: 8.5

Audio came out a little tinny at times, but overall very good. Could be due to the fact that the audio was sped up and then slowed down, which sort of limited the frequency ranges. Certainly nothing to complain about too much; I doubt the average person would notice unless they really tried.

Movie: 8

The overall tone of the movie was very dark, very apocalyptic, which is really what The War of the Worlds should be like. Dakota Fanning was needlessly annoying in the earlier parts of the movie, but that was the script and not her acting. Tom Cruise was, as always, the instantly likable hero. Other performances were good; Tim Robbins really knows how to be totally whacked out. CGI wasn't too over-the-top; a lot of it was just good ol' fashioned set magic, or appeared to be so. The movie went on pretty strong until the very end, where it kind of went, "oh hey look the movie's over! WHOOPIE!!!!" So... yeah, not too bad. I'd watch it again, maybe.


And now for the AviSynth Script I promised. This requires you have AviSynth installed. Google it and get it if you don't.

(Stuff in angle brackets -- < > -- is stuff you need to replace with the actual filenames/etc.)

Create a file in the same directory as both the movie files named "<movie name>.avs" and open it in notepad. In the file put in the following:

AVISource("<first movie file>.avi",true)++AVISource("<second movie file>.avi",true)
AssumeFPS(23.976,true)


Save the file, then open it with whatever media player you use.

The only downside is that it pre-converts the audio to PCM, without boosting the volume or anything else. This is only a problem for releases with AC3 audio usually, like this one. You may have to crank your speaker volume to hear anything.

EDIT: Sorry, just noticed this release isn't AC3 audio, it's mp3, and high bitrate (~226kbps) at that. Very nice. Still sounds the same, but it means that converting it to AC3 at the proper speed won't ruin the quality.

Last edited by yukichigai on 07-10-2005 at 06:56 AM

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not sure if it just my telly, but on the scenes where the screen is black (like after the dreamworks logo) it appears to have a strong red tint to it.

i only noticed this after i put it on the tv though, couldnt really see it on the pc monitor. i found it a bit odd because it is the first copy of a film that i have had that on so im guessing its this release...

still amazing though

9/8/not seen yet

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Does anyone know if there is anything cut from the russian version. The runtime is just under 108 mins including credits for this and on IMDB it says 116 mins?

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Has anyone nocticed that CD2's audio is shorter than the Video? Because after putting it in VirtualDub to check the frame rate out , the audio frame rate is 25048fps where the Video is 25000fps the same with the audio and video times Audio is 56:18:89 Mins and Video is 56:20:28 Mins,
Now the xvid is in sync funny enougth dont know why, but when i try to convert to dvd the audio is way out of sync where as CD1 is fine.
Can anyone help me on this? i need to find a way to make the audio and video match on CD2.

Or if you have the same problem tell me what you did to correct it plz.

Thanks

p.s Just seen CD1 is the same, auido and video times are different but frame rate is fine but audio go's off snyc when converting or extracting the audio to wav

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I watched it through yesterday:
Over the whole line is it a clear vid. The dark scenes come out very nice only the soundvolume is a little bit low.
As for the bitrate for cd2::
havn't noticed it before you guys said it. Because no sync problems. So I can't really see the problem (except for
converters)
Anyway:
9/8/6

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First off:

V:8(cropped)/A:9/M:9

Saw it in the movies!

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Originally posted by yukichigai
Well well, quite a release from XViD. I'm rather impressed. EXCEPT THAT IT'S THE WRONG F%$#ING FRAMERATE. F%$#ing hell guys, when will you release groups learn that speeding a movie up to match 25fps isn't okay? Seriously. Why doesn't anybody nuke for that? I would....

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Hey now,

Killer release, great quality,

V:8
A:9
M:7

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Originally posted by Earthspawn
Has anyone nocticed that CD2's audio is shorter than the Video? Because after putting it in VirtualDub to check the frame rate out , the audio frame rate is 25048fps where the Video is 25000fps the same with the audio and video times Audio is 56:18:89 Mins and Video is 56:20:28 Mins,
Now the xvid is in sync funny enougth dont know why, but when i try to convert to dvd the audio is way out of sync where as CD1 is fine.
Can anyone help me on this? i need to find a way to make the audio and video match on CD2.

Or if you have the same problem tell me what you did to correct it plz.

Thanks

p.s Just seen CD1 is the same, auido and video times are different but frame rate is fine but audio go's off snyc when converting or extracting the audio to wav

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8/8/7

audio is ok; not sure about the technical sides of it, but there's a slight occasional fluctuation in volume. Video is okay, although i've seen some better TC's.

i'm curious, shouldn't they drop out the frames with identification dot patterns that pop up occasionally?

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Originally posted by yukichigai
Well well, quite a release from XViD. I'm rather impressed. EXCEPT THAT IT'S THE WRONG F%$#ING FRAMERATE. F%$#ing hell guys, when will you release groups learn that speeding a movie up to match 25fps isn't okay? Seriously. Why doesn't anybody nuke for that? I would....

Video: 9
The framerate is a serious issue which I am amazed nobody else has addressed yet.

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Originally posted by freaky_00
Excuse me but do you know that 25fps is PAL. To my knowledge only a few countries use 23,976 or 29,976 fps like USA and Japan. Why is it so bad for you releasing it in 25fps? NTSC is inferior to PAL. I am quite happy to see it is 25fps!!!

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awesome release as good as saosin at top of there game
8/9/7
all there proper sound not pot cam added etc as other releases

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dank je voor de mooie release..

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Originally posted by bobbish
lol, you do realize that 25fps = PAL which is very valid.
most telecine's you'll see are PAL. and as this is russian sourced, it is the proper framerate.

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yukichigai, as you obviously must know, Region2 and a few others use PAL on all DVD's, so we constantly have speeded up audio, cant say i like it, but unless you have heard the original then you arent gonna notice its speeded up.

As had previously been said, these TC are recorded in PAL using countries so are gonna use 25fps, and speeding up does not reduce the quality of the sound at all, it just changes it, and doesn't affect the video quality at all, quite the opposite as PAL has a higher resolution, and all TC and decent TS are gonna be PAL, so get used to it.

Anyways very nice release, great quality so early, nice colours, very clear and easy to see, couple of mild problems but nothing unwatchable.

Sound isnt great, but does the job to listen to it, and has no serious problems.

9/7/?

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Originally posted by Redemption1980
yukichigai, as you obviously must know, Region2 and a few others use PAL on all DVD's, so we constantly have speeded up audio, cant say i like it, but unless you have heard the original then you arent gonna notice its speeded up.

As had previously been said, these TC are recorded in PAL using countries so are gonna use 25fps, and speeding up does not reduce the quality of the sound at all, it just changes it, and doesn't affect the video quality at all, quite the opposite as PAL has a higher resolution, and all TC and decent TS are gonna be PAL, so get used to it.

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