Progressive jpeg was a game changer

thank you! that was the whole idea. did you let it finish dialing in?

This is awesome! Really took me back to the 90s. ❤️

this is exactly the face everyone made waiting on one jpeg

14.4?! I dreamed of speeds like that when surfing my local BBS's at 300 baud on my Commodore 64.

Also

https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_player&query=146851

So good

I either watched this series or one like it. While I certainly found it fascinating, it's crazy-sobering to me today that there's not nearly as much need to imagine post-apoc scenarios and consume post-apoc media for the curious. You know, because we're already starting to experience it first-hand.

And I can't believe that of all the already-known mechanisms to cause collapse, yet another one recently emerged (rogue AI) that's rapidly becoming a dangerous headache.

Wow, awesome.

Anywhere to donate to the effort?

Edit: on the page linked

https://gofund.me/e35e309fa

I found this thread with some more info on what they're doing: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1633188-before-toy-story%E2%80%A6-there-was-reboot/

Sveeno

Before Toy Story, there was ReBoot—the first fully computer-animated TV show. Thought lost to time and decay, we partnered with the Reboot Rewind team and Kioxia to bring the original, uncompressed masters back to life. Join us as we try to fix the incredibly rare, $300k D1 tape deck needed for preservation!

XBrav_Revolutionz

Hey, Bryan from ReBoot ReWind here!

The tapes were 720x576i50, but always rendered as full frames to produce a 720x576p25 frame without compression. The video track is essentially an uncompressed bitmap. There are also 4 audio tracks in full digital audio that we capture. The capture process is directly via SDI for video and digital audio via XLR into our capture PC.

For my editing machine, I have the Kioxia drives attached via a PCIe riser. My X570 platform is a bit limited on PCIe lanes, so I currently have one drive active in my host as the scratch and storage. Each episode is roughly 50GB raw. We render them back as a Prores 4444 maintaining the same aspect ratio and color profiles as the source, and that gets us down to roughly 16GB per tape. We're looking into some m-discs for long-term archival as well as other means to ensure the data doesn't degrade.

I have a 5700X3D processor and a RTX 3080 in the rig. The video pipeline I scripted is currently 100% CPU bound, so I can saturate the 5700X3D to get about 25-35fps when rendering or jogging to verify the fixes. With my old SSDs, there was a noticeable slowdown in random reads when trying to jog. When you're going frame-by-frame, it becomes painful.

I'm happy to answer any other questions!

Those files must be huge if they're slowly uploading. That's "HD" for you.

Tony Jay is the reason to watch this show

I remember this!

They had the best Evil Dead homage

Yeah, I read a lot, but I still always wanted the books that came with a trinket.

It is true that there is a lot of the extra stuff these days, but getting books the same price as anywhere else and 20% credit goes to the classroom still seems like a good deal.

I mean, they always had fluff items, like erasers that smelled like fruit.

i don't think NY and LA can even be compared as they're not really doing things in the same field. LA is basically all metanarrative movie dressed into EFNY framework

Not a patch on the original, but as time goes on we can appreciate that at least we got some more Snake Plissken while that was still possible.

literally a tech bro. Kurt predicted the future!

I still remember those made-for-TV movies he did for Disney early in his career. He typically played some mischievous college student who accidentally invents an invisibility serum or something and chaos ensues.

he was on Walt Disney's mind when he died.

Kurt Russell was the ultimate action hero because he's really just some guy. Love all his movies.

The scene with the cross court shots is impressive because Kurt insisted he actually make them instead of them just editing quick cuts.

I mostly remember the Beverly Hills plastic surgery fiends.