> > How far off are we from having finalized hardware to the point where the raw > > Laserdisc captures can be made and won't need to be made again in the future? (and > > then any further work handled in software only) > > I'm reasonably sure even the DdD hardware version 2 was at that point, and version 3 > simply expands capabilities and makes it a bit friendlier. > > Even so, with utilities like ld-combine on the software side of things, it will be > important to obtain not just a capture or two of one disc, but ideally, as many > captures as possible of multiples of the same disc. > > For those not in the know, ld-combine will take multiple captures of the same make > and model of disc, and determine on a per-line basis which of the captures is > higher-quality, to assemble a capture which is in better shape than either of the two > (or three, or four, etc.) source captures. > > The principle is that dropouts usually don't happen in exactly the same place on > every disc, and so a bad line in one capture may not necessarily be a bad line in > another.
That is a nice and good feature, as long as you have multiple masters/copies. So basically every source capture is kept for future improvement in dropout-removing?
I wonder how well some post-production effects would work, especially because most dropouts are kind of "white noise" and that is something, where those plugins really work well. I mean digital restauration of old movies i.e. is not a new thing. I really would like to test some "bad" material.