[game_preservation] A Triumph Of Game Preservation

[Jim Leonard]

Chris Lepine wrote:

> I'll let Joe know about the mailing list - there's a good chance he 

> might even want to join up here. I'll be speaking to him next week, so 

> hopefully I'll get some more details then.


I probably should have let him know too, but it means more coming from 
someone else than a fringe person :)

I was able to advise them on the video acquisition process before they 
got down there; for speed at the highest quality, I recommended they get 
VHS->DVD units and use them at their lowest compression setting (ie. 2 
hours of video = one DVD-R) without any filtering or enhancements. 
Hopefully this preserved all of the interlacing (most of the Wing 
Commander III and IV video assets and interviews are true 60 
field-per-second video) and no composite video generational artifacts.
That's what they did, but I haven't seen a DVD .ISO file yet to see how 
successful it was.
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