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Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative

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Re: Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative

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Post by itisit »

xattt wrote: post #82

Re: negative re-masters I can’t help but notice that a number of older and very prominent shows on streaming services are clearly ripped from a video cassette. For example, the older Simpsons episodes on Disney Plus. Some of the episodes have very prominent dot crawl which is unacceptable for a digital format that you pay for. I also can’t imagine the film masters were trashed, or that the show was composited to vide…

> Were studios really that reckless with their properties?

The first two seasons of Monty Python’s Flying Circus were almost erased because the BBC wanted to reuse the broadcast tapes. [0]

[0] https://www.cracked.com/article_42008_monty-pythons-flying-c...

Re: Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative

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Post by MisterTea »

xattt wrote: post #82

Re: negative re-masters I can’t help but notice that a number of older and very prominent shows on streaming services are clearly ripped from a video cassette. For example, the older Simpsons episodes on Disney Plus. Some of the episodes have very prominent dot crawl which is unacceptable for a digital format that you pay for. I also can’t imagine the film masters were trashed, or that the show was composited to vide…

> Were studios really that reckless with their properties?

Some were. Once the film made its money in the theaters it was then put in a vault and forgotten about. The theaters were supposed to return the release prints but sometimes the projectionist would "lose" them. The studio vault those films sat in sometimes catch fire or water leaks in. If the originals are destroyed then hopefully a few release prints are floating around in the hands of theaters, individuals (where those lost prints end up), or television stations. If not, then its gone forever.

Re: Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative

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Post by gnomesteel »

xattt wrote: post #82

Re: negative re-masters I can’t help but notice that a number of older and very prominent shows on streaming services are clearly ripped from a video cassette. For example, the older Simpsons episodes on Disney Plus. Some of the episodes have very prominent dot crawl which is unacceptable for a digital format that you pay for. I also can’t imagine the film masters were trashed, or that the show was composited to vide…

Shows like The Simpsons that were only made for broadcast never had a film negative. It was likely mastered to analog tape.

Re: Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative

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Post by esafak »

nielsbot wrote: post #8
kleiba wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

StackOverflow has this feature that when you write a new question, it tries to fuzzy-match that up against existing questions. I wonder if an approach similar to yours, using search, could be employed on HN as well to reduce the number of dupes?! This would be helpful especially for those cases where the same story gets covered on multiple places on the internet and so URL matching doesn't help.

Wonder if ML could help automate merging of duplicate (or similar topic) threads? (I don't know much about ML)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_linkage

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Post by al_borland »

xattt wrote: post #82

Re: negative re-masters I can’t help but notice that a number of older and very prominent shows on streaming services are clearly ripped from a video cassette. For example, the older Simpsons episodes on Disney Plus. Some of the episodes have very prominent dot crawl which is unacceptable for a digital format that you pay for. I also can’t imagine the film masters were trashed, or that the show was composited to vide…

I believe Technology Connections on YouTube did a video on film vs video where he touched on this. Film was much more expensive, and people weren’t always thinking about remasters 30 years later. If something was being shot just to air on TV, sometimes VHS was all they did.

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Post by jackgavigan »

One of the great things about Sneakers is that the McGuffin's core concept still holds up as reasonably credible 30+ years later.

I first saw this movie in the mid-90s, and it sparked a mild fascination with how cryptography (specifically, RSA) works, that arguably influenced my career path.

Fun fact: Leonard Adleman (the A in RSA) drafted the words and slides used for the lecture scene: https://molecularscience.usc.edu/sneakers/

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Post by etempleton »

xattt wrote: post #82

Re: negative re-masters I can’t help but notice that a number of older and very prominent shows on streaming services are clearly ripped from a video cassette. For example, the older Simpsons episodes on Disney Plus. Some of the episodes have very prominent dot crawl which is unacceptable for a digital format that you pay for. I also can’t imagine the film masters were trashed, or that the show was composited to vide…

Film begins degrading immediately even if well stored. Television was seen as largely disposable and was treated as such.

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Post by piker »

AStonesThrow wrote: post #85
Ntrails wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> you can tell so much from someone's shoes You can make educated guesses based on apparel of all sorts - but you are always guessing .

Yes but many times, these can be quite valuable inferences. Shoes are indeed a valuable source of information about a person. I knew at least one BH case manager who really paid attention to them. Shoes are expensive, very durable, and typically one of those items that people have only a few pairs of. So while someone can easily change their outfit to match a situation, place, or mood for the day, they may be less li…

BH professional?

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Post by chedabob »

richrichardsson wrote: post #41
voxadam wrote: post #19

My voice is my passport. Verify Me.

Just before I left the UK in 2018 there was starting to become this trend for voice verification on some services, in one particular one I had to go through the setup of (perhaps it was Virgin Media? I forget), they had me say "My voice is my passport" to train it on how I sound. I smiled to myself.

I had to do it on either Atom Bank or Starling (signed up for both at a similar time).

Monzo also have you recite something but it's something far less exciting like "My name is X and I bank with Monzo".

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