MCA DiscoVision (Full HQ Logo)/Universal Pictures (1981)
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- Опубликовано: 21 мар 2020
- Thanks to a magical invention known as "Test Mode", I'm able to effectively force my LaserDisc player to start playing behind the start marker for the disc, allowing me to access the full MCA DiscoVision logo on any disc that has it.
The benefit of that is that I can capture the logo in full on a disc that has less rot, such as this one, thus getting probably one of the highest quality captures of the full intro available.
From the MCA DiscoVision release of "Nighthawks".
fair use now im gonna discodance to discovision
BTW: If you're wondering "where is the spiral"? This disc, being a later DiscoVision disc, has the MCA VideoDisc "zooming numbers" side bumpers, so it simply didn't have the spiral bumper at all.
Video Information:
Title of Source: Nighthawks
Distributor: MCA DiscoVision
Original Home Video Format: LaserDisc
Original Video: CLV
Original Audio: FM Audio without CX
Conversion Type: FlagSynth-WT (WinTV recording, as I needed to monitor - avisynth/ffmpeg transcoding) Кино
DAMN! This is probably the cleanest copy of this bumper that will ever exist, unless any videotape DiscoVision masters are ever recovered, or the original film itself. Given the characteristic head-switching notches on the right side of the picture, it looks like this disc was mastered on Quad.
BRUH, the Discovision logo on FILM. Now there's something I'd PAY to see.
Yes, to the best of my knowledge, Discovision LDs were mastered using 2" Quad videotape (I noticed the head-switching notches too :) ), but earlier releases when Discovision made its debut in 1978 were mastered on the 2" helical format used by the IVC 9000 VTR, which they initially used (as well as the broadcast industry, a few TV shows like "Barney Miller" used the 9000 format for the final on-air masters). The 9000 had extremely high video quality and performance, possibly the best of any analog videotape format ever developed, thanks to it being able to record a max raw analog bandwidth of 8 MHz(!).
Discovision switched to Quad shortly after, since IVC was on the verge of going out of business mostly due to the 9000's manufacturing cost and lack of sustainable sales, leaving parts and support for the 9000 in uncertainty.
After Discovision got acquired by Pioneer around 1980-81, most LDs by then were mastered from 1" Type C videotape instead, a rather new format at the time, and also gaining use in the broadcast industry then.
@@RyanSchweitzer77 how about tv commercials on film
The original film master would be the best quality (lol), but nowadays you'd expect it to be faded so some restoration would be in order. Also it probably doesn't exist.
The Quad masters are worse quality, and are even less likely to exist given tape reusage of the time.
After that, you're reduced to capturing early laserdiscs, and if you're serious about doing it right, nothing comes close to the Domesday duplicator.
Hot DAMN, this looks clean.
Either you (or the previous owner) was an absolute PRO at disc preservation, or this disc was new in box when you got it.
my right ear enjoyed this
Such a compelling logo especially the music. Very of its time but in the best way.
oh my god, this is the cleanest I've seen the DiscoVision logo EVER.
I just half-expected all of them to look like total ass because of their free-wheeling approach to manufacturing and the rather piss quality of their transfers, that they'd only look decent on original equipment (different laser wavelength and type, IIRC). but you, my dude, you transferred that bumper so well that it looks like you heavily altered an original DiscoVision player to output in S-Video or HDMI.
that's crisp.
also I wanna know the dingus at MCA who decided to put the bumpers at the beginning of the actual disc and not give some lead-in. guess they didn't foresee RUclipsrs uploading '70s and '80s home video rips.
0:05 One of my favorite logos.
Easily the cleanest full version of this ident I've ever seen.
Looks clean, sounds clean... except one of the audio channels is out of phase.
MCA Home Video Talking to Disney in 1982?🙂
Can someone tell me how to do test mode on 1990s players for the best quality of logo captures?
A. Test mode isn't for "the best quality of logo captures". It mainly disables some of the player's automation and safeguards giving you greater control over it. It's better to not use test mode if you don't have to, as you can fuck things up if you're not careful.
B. To access test mode, you can either buy a specialized service remote or open up your player and jump the two contact points labeled "Test Mode", but do so at your own risk.
@@WOSArchives From what I understand you have to use test mode when playing back these early Discovision LDs because they are mastered weird, the first 12 seconds of the logo don't have a frame number and the rest of the frames of the logo are all labeled as frame 0. If you try to play one of these discs in normal mode on a newer LD player, it will start at 0:15, because that's where it thinks the beginning of the disc is (frame 0) because of the mastering.
I don't know why but it seems like the Discovision LDs didn't just suffer from laser rot, but also from stupid mastering errors. Like the 5th side of the movie "Frenzy" having every single frame encoded as a stop/still frame so it's literally unplayable on newer players without test mode.