Disney’s Beauty and the Beast [spoRv]

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Disney’s Beauty and the Beast [spoRv]

| PROJECTS: Released | In progress | Future | Mission & Setup |

Mission: to restore Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, to recover its original color grading, and to add the laserdisc original soundtrack.

Video sources: analog video captured directly from Laserdisc, using one of the best laserdisc player ever produced, the Pioneer HLD-X9

Audio sources: uncompressed PCM captured directly from Laserdiscs; other soundtracks from BDs and DVDs.

Subtitles sources: subtitles for all languages.

Project info:

“Beauty and the Beast” was released in Blu-ray but, altough its quality is good, is different from the laserdisc; the color grading is not what it should be, and has massive contrast problems; the laserdisc soundtrack is closer to the original Dolby Surround soundtrack than the BD.

Source Material

Video:

• Beauty and the Beast – NTSC CAV laserdisc 1.66:1
  

Audio:

• Beauty and the Beast – NTSC CAV laserdisc – english PCM
• Various BDs and DVDs

Subtitles:

• Various BDs and DVDs

Final format: BD-25

Video:

1920×1080, 23.976fps, A.R. 1.66:1, AVC encoded 28mbps

Audio:

• English: PCM 2.0 16bit 1536kbps from US LD
• English: DTS 5.1ch 16bit 1509kbps from US BD
• French: DD 5.1ch 16bit 640kbps from EUR BD
• German:  DTS 5.1ch 16bit 1509kbps from EUR BD
• Italian: DD 5.1ch 16bit 384kbps from PAL DVD
• Spanish:  DTS 5.1ch 16bit 1509kbps from EUR BD
• Commentary: DD 2.0ch 16bit 192Kbps from EUR BD

Subtitles:

Main feature: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
Commentary: English, French, Italian, Spanish

“Partner in crime”:

nirbateman – the project promoter, quality control, soundtracks provider and synchronizer… he did so many things, that he should be considered to be the producer of this release… kudos!