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16:9 full frame is used to indicate an anamorphic transfer using the full 16:9 frame, 4x3 letterbox is used to indicate a non anamorphic transfer. 16:9 letterbox is probably the same as 16x9 full frame, but indicates a letterboxed 2.35:1 transfer within the 16:9 frame.

its not a conspiracy to keep the remaster exclusive, rather it's that to broadcast on TCM, the studios send a clone of a BetaCam SP or digibeta master of the film to TCM. They digitize the tape master into their server and then use the server to program with. They either keep the old tape or...

I watched Fox's Song of Bernadette over the weekend, and on that disc is a restoration demonstration that compares an old 1993 video master--the sort being used for pre-widescreen films in the archives--to the 2002 restoration (ie a new video master was made and used for the dvd) and also...

just interjecting how much I hate the term "digital remastering". I have an old VHS of Eskimo, taped off TV in the 1980s. If I were to transfer that tape to Digibeta stock I now have a "digitally remastered" version; the term applies just as much as if I were to have started with the studio's...

I'm hoping One Foot In Heaven and The Human Comedy will become available for the holidays this year. :)

it's not october yet.

obscure is a very subjective definition dependent upon an individual's level of knowledge. An HTF member that watches every griffith film ever made and pretty much any other silent film its possible to get his hands on will have a much different definition of obscure than me. Likewise, an HTF...

with the amount of money WB has already sunk into an Ambersons DVD (they've said they've been looking for elements or working on it for years and years going by old HTF chats) I cannot imagine it getting an archives release. The censored 11 Looney Tunes cartoons seems likely (esp since Song...

okay, let's just use some make believe numbers. According to RAH above a fully restored cleaned up release with extras and swanky packaging has an overhead cost of about 500,000 per title. (a six film box set then costs about 3,000,000) Now for the archives let's say that there's a decent...

I think there is a great deal of confusion between restored and a new transfer. Not one of these titles has been restored, however the widescreen ones require a new transfer (new telecine) from existing film elements in order to make an anamorphic DVD. this is why there were so few...

WB is bringing back the dreaded and hated snappers? ugh.

I imagine the good things coming are two fold: one: all the CBR interlaced discs have had new disc images made as VBR progressive and WB will offer an exchange program for any discs that were CBR interlaced. two: due to the success of the program the good folks at WB have been able to...

I'm watching an old vhs of Naughty Marietta now, I think this will probably be a candidate for the archives. It's a shame that the widescreen titles necessitate a new telecine in order to make an anamorphic DVD, but the academy titles don't get new telecines. I imagine any DVD of Marietta will...

I would guess and hope the new titles are being delayed due to the backlog of making progressive disc images, I wouldn't be surprised if WB is trying to iron all the kinks out with the current slate before adding to it. 150 titles is an entire year's worth of dvds put out in one month...

except, Jim, what if the CC track is only on TCM's in house air masters? the prospect then is to get their used tape, clone it and return it to them and use the clone for the archive program. it's unlikely there's a simple .cap file floating around for most of the older films, and those files...

didn't see PB's unedited post, but yes, my eyeroll was directed at WB vaguely but more generally at the dumb mistake of presumably progressive tapes being made as interlaced DVDs, probably my eye roll was directed at Allied Vaughn's tape ops technicians, but we don't know enough to be sure. :D

any new telecine WB did for this program (such as to make an anamorphic transfer) would have an HD source, likely to an SR master.

if the tape is progressive you change the deck setting to record as progressive instead of interlaced. It's very expensive. :rolleyes

well said Jim, what no one else has really pointed out is that WB is basically offering to sell the equivalent of 'in house' screener copies. When George Feltenstein or someone in home video wants to preview a film before deciding if it'll get a dvd release, they have someone in tape ops make a...

Or, you know, pop the digibeta or BSP into a digibeta A500 deck, SDI out to the SDSDI in on a DVCPRO 1700 deck, up convert set to Fit-H, downconvert set to Fit-HV, analog audio out from the deck routed through the mackie board to the dvd recorder and analog video (composite) or SDSDI out from...

yes, that's what I mean, any of the widescreen films that are in anamorphic for the first time probably necessitated a new transfer, that means it probably went to an SR master in 1080p first, whether it was transferred from an existing print or a new print struck for the purposes of telecine is...

I imagine the air masters for TCM are digibeta, that means they're either 4x3 letterbox (if older masters) or 16:9 anamorphic (aka 16:9 full frame). The use of the word anamorphic with DVDs has been really unfortunate, it's too bad we couldn't stick with just letterbox vs 16:9 :-p and yes it's...