Classic Fighters 2011 Official DVD Trailer

[Dave Homewood]

Check out the new trailer of the Official DVD from the Classic Fighters 2011 airshow at Omaka this past Easter:



You can pre-order the DVD from the Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre website: omaka.org.nz/omaka-merchandise.htm

The pre-order price is NZ$29.00 + Postage ($5 within NZ and $10 overseas).

The DVD is currently in post-production, and we expect it will be finished in time for Christmas, at which time the price will increase to the standard NZ$35.00

[ErrolC]

Interesting that this isn't being offered as Blu-ray (as well). I've discovered that my low-end (but not dirt-cheap) Blu-ray player in combination with my mid-range HD TV displays significant 'ghosting' on a few panning shots on the 2009 DVD. It's fine on a mate's set-up (with a higher-spec Blu-ray player).
Also happened in one or two shots of the Ewen McGregor Battle of Britain show on Prime (which I put down to the crappy quality that Prime is broadcast in).

The content in the 2009 DVD is generally excellent BTW.

[lumpy]

Jul 21, 2011 11:00:07 GMT 12 ErrolC said:

Interesting that this isn't being offered as Blu-ray (as well). I've discovered that my low-end (but not dirt-cheap) Blu-ray player in combination with my mid-range HD TV displays significant 'ghosting' on a few panning shots on the 2009 DVD. It's fine on a mate's set-up (with a higher-spec Blu-ray player).
Also happened in one or two shots of the Ewen McGregor Battle of Britain show on Prime (which I put down to the crappy quality that Prime is broadcast in).

The content in the 2009 DVD is generally excellent BTW.

Different technology , but had a similar ghosting thing some time ago when I purchased a VCR . If I recall correctly it was something to do with the signal boosting technology , and the chap at the service department gave me something called an "Attenuator " , ( its been awhile , but it was something like that ) . It just plugged into the arieal input , and came in different " grades " , so it was a matter of trying a few different ones ,till the problem went away . Worked a treat - and was cheap !

[ErrolC]

Jul 21, 2011 20:17:59 GMT 12 lumpy said:

Jul 21, 2011 11:00:07 GMT 12 ErrolC said:

Interesting that this isn't being offered as Blu-ray (as well). I've discovered that my low-end (but not dirt-cheap) Blu-ray player in combination with my mid-range HD TV displays significant 'ghosting' on a few panning shots on the 2009 DVD. It's fine on a mate's set-up (with a higher-spec Blu-ray player).
Also happened in one or two shots of the Ewen McGregor Battle of Britain show on Prime (which I put down to the crappy quality that Prime is broadcast in).

The content in the 2009 DVD is generally excellent BTW.

Different technology , but had a similar ghosting thing some time ago when I purchased a VCR . If I recall correctly it was something to do with the signal boosting technology , and the chap at the service department gave me something called an "Attenuator " , ( its been awhile , but it was something like that ) . It just plugged into the arieal input , and came in different " grades " , so it was a matter of trying a few different ones ,till the problem went away . Worked a treat - and was cheap !

Ghosting was the best word I could think of at the time to describe what I saw, but it is different from the effect that can happen with the analog tech (a poke around Wikipedia confirmed that an attenuator was likely what you had).
When the camera was following a fast moving object which was a significant fraction of the screen (especially if the background was 'busy'), then a trail-ling semi-transparent image intermittently followed parts of the object. The WWI fighters sometimes had an extra (half-solid) wheel about one-and-a-half diameters behind the real one, the Spit had square-ish blocks behind the inner portions of the wings.
I'm guessing that the player (or maybe the TV) doesn't have enough processing power to properly upscale the standard-definition DVD recording to full high-definition. The situations described would be when the most number-crunching is needed.
It's not a big enough issue that I want to do a lot of faffing about to try to fix (e.g. by ripping the DVD and getting my computer to do the upscaling before I watch it on the TV). If I'm bored one afternoon I might test out some other aviation DVDs.

Cheers