Hey what do expect SCREAM to do?
If the studio released a non-standard format screener changing it to the NTSC standard will just fuck up the A/R.
If this one comes my way I will cherish it and learn to love the black bars.

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I love this site BTW.

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Die.

Wrong thread, and even if it wasn't, subjects like "WTF" are stupid.

Welcome to the site...

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plays fine in standalone
will tide me over until retail.

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Isn't 704x480 a legitimate NTSC DVD resolution?

http://www.videohelp.com/dvd#tech

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Isn't 704x480 a legitimate NTSC DVD resolution?

http://www.videohelp.com/dvd#tech

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Plays but looks squeezed on the TV.

Question to ask, if this was untouched then why didnt it work the first time?

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Doesn't work on my standalone....looks like i'm watching this one through the pc, connected to tv though.

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It played on one of my players, but not the other. Once I did a 'Get VTS Sectors' in IFOedit, and reburned, it worked in both my players fine.

It is definitely NOT anamorphic, and looked kinda crappy on my 57" widescreen. Also something weird I have never seen on a dvd screener before - at the VERY start of the disc, there is a big blue 'idle' screen of a dvd player, and then you see a play icon pop up in the corner, then the movie starts and the icon disappears a couple of seconds later. This really seems like they captured this into a PC and encoded it (which could explain the non-anamorphic aspect as well - I just don't believe a major studio would release a dvd-screener these days that was NOT anamorphic). I find it really hard to believe this is untouched video.

But hey, it's the best release of "Sideways' so far

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It played on one of my players, but not the other. Once I did a 'Get VTS Sectors' in IFOedit, and reburned, it worked in both my players fine.

It is definitely NOT anamorphic, and looked kinda crappy on my 57" widescreen. Also something weird I have never seen on a dvd screener before - at the VERY start of the disc, there is a big blue 'idle' screen of a dvd player, and then you see a play icon pop up in the corner, then the movie starts and the icon disappears a couple of seconds later. This really seems like they captured this into a PC and encoded it (which could explain the non-anamorphic aspect as well - I just don't believe a major studio would release a dvd-screener these days that was NOT anamorphic). I find it really hard to believe this is untouched video.

But hey, it's the best release of "Sideways' so far

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theres a whole thread explaining this somewhere - the oscar dvd screeners are not rippable in conventional fashion, and have to be captured - thats where the blue screen you mention comes from.

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checkout this article: http://www.mpeg-playcenter.com/kiss...theres_more.htm

this year the MPAA paid a company called Kiss to make special encrypted DVD players, they sent the dvd players & screeners to the oscar judges. considering the video is rather blocky, and there is the "play" message at the beginning, this is most likely a capture from the s-video output and resized to 704*480 (A VALID NTSC RESOLUTION, this rls should not have been nuked anywhere, it's perfectly valid).

video - 6 - what can i say, blocky in flat colored scenes (like walls, the sky, etc)... otherwise sharp

audio - 10 - perfect transfer, probably a direct digital capture

movie - 9 - one of the best movies of 2004

MUCH MUCH thanks to the folks who are willing to offer us these rips, they are great quality... far better than anything out.

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NUKED: Bad.Resolution but i dont think that is SCREAM fault. Pic is NOT quite pretty and can be blocky at time sound and movie itself are FANTASTIC.!!


7/9/8

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Could they also do this with retail DVDs?

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NUKED: Bad.Resolution but i dont think that is SCREAM fault. Pic is NOT quite pretty and can be blocky at time sound and movie itself are FANTASTIC.!!


7/9/8

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Yep most likely captured and rendered/scaled at an odd resolution, no one uses this res because its not compatable with all DVD players.

Definatly SCREAM's fault for a good source and lousing it up.

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It played on one of my players, but not the other. Once I did a 'Get VTS Sectors' in IFOedit, and reburned, it worked in both my players fine.

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hm I tried that and it still doesnt work.. says "invalid entry" on the dvd player.

rating 7.5/9/?


edit: I threw it in Nero Recode, and it played fine.

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Hey geminix

I was goin to try fixing it with Ifoedit as suggested, which file should i open? VIDEO_TS.IFO or the VTS_01_0.IFO

Thanks in Advance

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ok its 352X480 not 704X480 as stated weird size but its valid after you do get vector sectors in ifoedit and burn plays fine tried it on my 2 sonys pioneer and jvc

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Info says it has english subs, but there's no subs at all.

7/9/?

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Could someone please give me detailed instructions on how to burn this movie to a DVD. I have the image file and it has been mounted to my virtual drive. I burned it three times with a different approach every time and all three discs' could only be read on my DVD-Rom but could not be run on my DVD player. Someon mentioned using Nero Recode which I have but I have never used it before. PLEASE CAN SOMEONE HELP ME! Thanks in advance for any help.

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