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easy2Bcheesy · 27th April 2003, 08:57

I did some experiments on 'converting' the picture into anamorphic widescreen - there's nothing worse than watching a non-anamorphic movie on a 16:9 TV. The zoom-in is awful, the scan lines you see put me right off.

Essentially I captured the film onto my DVD player, then used VFAPI and AviSynth to stretch the picture vertically by 133% before encoding in TMPEG (CCE 2.5 didn't like my avs file for some reason).

I found that the picture is very good indeed on bright scenes and the loss of the scan lines thanks to true anamorphic is great. However, on dark scenes (such as the Dagobah bit and the tail end of Luke vs Vader in ESB) produces a massive amount of noise on-screen making the film look awful and unwatchable.

I guess that's a problem with my LD player - it was only £250 when I bought it new.

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easy2Bcheesy Moderator Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 643	I did some experiments on 'converting' the picture into anamorphic widescreen - there's nothing worse than watching a non-anamorphic movie on a 16:9 TV. The zoom-in is awful, the scan lines you see put me right off. Essentially I captured the film onto my DVD player, then used VFAPI and AviSynth to stretch the picture vertically by 133% before encoding in TMPEG (CCE 2.5 didn't like my avs file for some reason). I found that the picture is very good indeed on bright scenes and the loss of the scan lines thanks to true anamorphic is great. However, on dark scenes (such as the Dagobah bit and the tail end of Luke vs Vader in ESB) produces a massive amount of noise on-screen making the film look awful and unwatchable. I guess that's a problem with my LD player - it was only £250 when I bought it new.