spyd3r

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Microsoft Intellimouse Optical gets my vote.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Witcher 3: Lelelelele

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago (62 children)

European Greens must be dumb as fuck then, because the US Green party exists to:

Get

Republicans

Elected

Every

November

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Windows 10 Enterprise IoT LTSC specifically

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

They need to go back to making manual updating a thing, plus separating out critical security patches, from their stupid feature fluff.

I've had my system broken by Windows Update way more times than I've ever been hacked or caught a virus/worm.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Shareholders are the customers now. People are livestock to be milked dry, worked to the bone, and chopped up and served to corporations.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Communists are the worlds biggest babies.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago

I'm not surprised at all, the westerners supporting Hamas and HezzyB are dumb as fuck.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

a production line for corporate slaves.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 weeks ago

Then our taxes should stop funding these institutions.

 

Noa Argamani, Almog Meir, Andrey Kozlov, and Shlomi Ziv were rescued in a joint operation by IDF, Shin Bet and police's Yamam unit.

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Screenshot from DS9 - 101/102 - Emissary

Processed with the Orb of Enhancement:

Raw:

 

For a higher quality downloadable version: https://archive.org/details/st-ds-9-rootbeer-analogy-2160p

 

Screenshot from DS9 - 111 - The Nagus (Laserdisc)

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

As ST: DS9 airs its pilot episode, PM airs this 50 minute documentary as a way to spark excitement about the new show. It includes interviews from the cast and contains sneak peaks into the show's first season.

In the documentary, Farrell (Jadzia Dax) takes the viewer on a tour around the Deep Space 9 sets. The feature also has interviews with the cast, producers, writers and other production staff members and takes a look at the making of "Emissary".


To my knowledge this was only aired on TV once in 1993, then was released on VHS shortly after in the US and UK, and has never been re-issued on any newer DVD releases.

It just so happens that it was also released in Japan on Laserdisc, and I happened to find it while looking through my collection of discs. To watch this in the best possible quality, I have digitzed, restored, and upscaled this rare find to for viewing on modern devices.

Enjoy! (and download it before it disappears)

Note: For the highest quality viewing experience, download the 1.5GB .mkv file and play it in your software player of choice.

Note: The audio is in English but there are Japanese subtitles in the picture.

 

Star Trek on Laserdisc

*Available in TOS, TAS, TNG, DS9, VOY, and theatrical release flavors.


It's guaranteed very few Star Trek fans have ever seen these, they are as hard to find as it gets. What we have here is Star Trek on a fully analog video format that isn't plagued by digital artifacts found on streaming platforms and early DVD releases (such as the DS9/VOY releases), nor does it have any of the quality issues found with VHS tape.

The elephant in the room here is cost, so don't go searching Ebay/ZenMarket just yet. As with most analog hifi things, you have to spend a lot to get high quality results. Laserdisc is no exception, and it's even worse because of the rarity of the discs and the equipment all having antique status.

That being said, in my quest to transport myself back to the 1990's, I have amassed enough equipment and specialty gear to capture Laserdiscs in stupidly high quality, and have uploaded the results for normal people to see. Now the preferred way to watch these is in their native resolution with a high end LD player hooked directly to a retro Trinitron CRT or Plasma TV, but these direct disc captures will be the best possible viewing method on modern display devices.

Voyager LD Sample YT -- VOY LD Sample Direct Download

DS9 LD Sample YT -- DS9 LD Sample Direct Download

Hardware used for capture:

  • Pioneer CLD-D704
  • Domesday Duplicator
  • Windows PC (i9-10900k/RTX-3080/32GB RAM)

Software used for processing:

  • ld-decode
  • Hybrid + Vapoursynth
  • Premiere Pro
  • Audition
  • Topaz
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