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Post by martinjwills on Dec 31, 2017 20:49:21 GMT
Has the Archive status been upgraded to "Stills and Fragments Exist" from "Missing" even if only stored on computers.
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Post by martinjwills on Dec 30, 2017 21:47:03 GMT
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Post by martinjwills on Dec 30, 2017 17:36:26 GMT
I put a link in the other thread too
it seems that nothing will be too far gone in the future, lets hope nothing else in that state is destroyed, even if only short clips, this is all good work in the field of restoration.
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Post by martinjwills on Dec 30, 2017 17:06:27 GMT
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Post by martinjwills on Dec 29, 2017 20:48:05 GMT
This is great work and news, and i hope other material in a similar state will now be stored rather than binned, if it is missing, any recovered frames are of value, just as the censor clips have been.
It would be asking too much to see if the chroma dot info was also recovered by this method, even if the recovered frame/s were too far gone, it might prove useful in future methods
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Post by martinjwills on Nov 17, 2017 14:00:23 GMT
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Post by martinjwills on Jul 17, 2017 19:01:32 GMT
Here is the bit of the PM interview
"However two prints, one QQ3 Web of Fear 3 and another spare print were taken from one of my guys by a guy at the station who took the two prints to his office. This was reported to me within hours. I was not unduly concerned I knew their location."
A spare print, so must have been existing if spare.
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Post by martinjwills on Jun 24, 2017 21:38:48 GMT
The first thing i would have looked at would be the can of that title, just to check that can didnt have Fury 6 inside it, if it was still in the vaults.
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Post by martinjwills on Jun 16, 2017 14:58:32 GMT
I have used various branded disks including verbatim, some with printing on the top side. out of 1000s of disks there have been a few bad batches, the recorders have been top end, The worst have been disks that were recorded as UDF format, rather than written Once and closed. The CD-Rs were blue coloured on the read side, they have been the worst. The Top side that changes colour too were the bad batches.
Its just good practice to back up. I recovered video from 1980 VHS with little problems, it will be interesting to see what can be recovered from CD-R 30 years after they were written.
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Post by martinjwills on Jun 14, 2017 19:06:58 GMT
Digital disk media is not very good for archives, Writable DVDs [DVD+-R] seems to last about 5 years, CDs [CD-R] about 8 years, I dont know about Blu-ray [BD-R] yet as havnt had them for a long time. Many of my DVDs recorded in 2005/6 now show as empty, if you use a deep recovery on them some of the files stored on them are recovered, but a lot of them contain read errors. Photographers need to back up their pictures from Hard Drive every 4 years or so, and keep the old disks as back-ups. Blu-Ray of course has 25GB or 50GB of data to loose on a single disk. Various HD freeview recorders store the recordings encrypted when HD, and Non-BBC HD channels as Copy-Once Encrypted, and if the AACS part of the disk fails the file is harder to recover even if intact.
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Post by martinjwills on Jun 5, 2017 9:33:05 GMT
So the BBC b/w film recordings of "Ambassadors" 2-7 have no chroma dots? I think they only used the chroma dot recovery on sections of the episodes that were not already done by colour restoration, rather than the whole episode. The Whole of Episode 5 was not touched as it was a colour restoration already, so is an example of this.
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Post by martinjwills on May 31, 2017 22:25:29 GMT
PM stated that he would only announce complete stories, after Web3 went missing, so there may be episodes waiting for others to be found first.
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Post by martinjwills on May 30, 2017 19:41:56 GMT
If the off-air were PAL it would be better, although i think VHS PAL in the early days was 1/2 the size of the Later VHS PAL. I dont know about the earlier Recording formats. The colour episodes used for restoration were NTSC so already converted once from PAL.
ALL the off air colour conversion episodes could be improved. Im sure any more off air recordings would be useful, and there was the colour bars on some of the NTSC recordings.
i am sure other methods will be developed in the future so a computer can auto work on the frames.
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Post by martinjwills on May 15, 2017 19:23:02 GMT
We do know he [Phil Morris] dug up a lot of Film Cans in the desert, but he has not mentioned if they were recoverable or what was in them. That info was in one of his radio interviews last year.
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Post by martinjwills on May 9, 2017 20:13:39 GMT
There could be improvements done to the early conversion Pertwees, by using chroma dot recovery mixed with the original colour from the returned NTSC episodes or home recordings, but we have them in colour so they are low priority.
Converting back to PAL from NTSC took a lot of work, so then to reconvert to NTSC would make them practically unwatchable as the others have said. I would say the episodes that could be improved are the following
Doctor Who and the Silurians Inferno Terror of the Autons The Dæmons [except the original episode 4]
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