GamesMaster in Full HD 1080p
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 8:53 am
Heya, my name is Rory Joscelyne (Roareye Black online), and I'm building my own GamesMaster fan site with its own focus.
First of all I want to say how impressive the efforts are of SeeNoEvil to try and bring the best quality of GamesMaster to the fore in a single purchasable compilation. That is no minor feat, and no doubt we all appreciate that. It's also nice to see a community still contributing stuff to the rich history of the show, including scans of the mags, interviews both new and old and behind the scenes photographs from the set.
I also note there is a polarised split of the fanbase from here and GamesMasterLive.net, brought on from what appears to be community anger at that webmaster suddenly dropping the website and returning it a year or two later. His justification is he had a server crash and e-mailed everyone. I wasn't here, so I don't know anything, however it's fair to say this split has had a detrimental effect on the community (Including the loss of actual people who worked on the original show).
I've built a third website, www.gamesmasterhd.co.uk , with connections to both here and GamesMasterLive.net, that can allow for a reconnecting of the community towards a project goal. That project goal is GamesMaster HD.
While I understand GamesMaster was recorded on video tape (And as such has no HD copy), the end result on the show is still salvageable. I'm currently restoring (In HD) the final episode of the series using my own rip of the GamesMaster Mag DVD special (Mastered in native 576p). The results are on my website;
http://www.gamesmasterhd.co.uk
The images are there simply as a guide, and only mastered there at 720 not the full 1080p the video footage will be at. The first thing to do is adapt your expectation, this isn't going to look anywhere near as good as an HD movie from 2013. It's a highly restored upscale, so no matter how much work goes in it won't have that Full HD shine that more contemporary/film-based media will have across it. It WILL however be sharper, slightly more detailed and the actual animation of the image will be clearer and less blurry. In themselves, good benefits to any show.
For the website I am hoping to compile the best of everything, with downloads of anything related to the show, as well as attempting to make my own articles and such to give the site it's own unique standing in the community - hopefully with contributions from more official sources as I branch out my contacts. Pie in the sky? Maybe. But then, so was compiling all of the "lost" GamesMaster series, and as a group that was managed to an extraordinarily high degree.
I've already affiliated to this site in the Affiliates page, I hope the description is acceptable.
Hope you like the layout, design and focus of the site, and I can chat to you guys in future. Contributions would be awesome, and I'll upload them to the site as needed.
First of all I want to say how impressive the efforts are of SeeNoEvil to try and bring the best quality of GamesMaster to the fore in a single purchasable compilation. That is no minor feat, and no doubt we all appreciate that. It's also nice to see a community still contributing stuff to the rich history of the show, including scans of the mags, interviews both new and old and behind the scenes photographs from the set.
I also note there is a polarised split of the fanbase from here and GamesMasterLive.net, brought on from what appears to be community anger at that webmaster suddenly dropping the website and returning it a year or two later. His justification is he had a server crash and e-mailed everyone. I wasn't here, so I don't know anything, however it's fair to say this split has had a detrimental effect on the community (Including the loss of actual people who worked on the original show).
I've built a third website, www.gamesmasterhd.co.uk , with connections to both here and GamesMasterLive.net, that can allow for a reconnecting of the community towards a project goal. That project goal is GamesMaster HD.
While I understand GamesMaster was recorded on video tape (And as such has no HD copy), the end result on the show is still salvageable. I'm currently restoring (In HD) the final episode of the series using my own rip of the GamesMaster Mag DVD special (Mastered in native 576p). The results are on my website;
http://www.gamesmasterhd.co.uk
The images are there simply as a guide, and only mastered there at 720 not the full 1080p the video footage will be at. The first thing to do is adapt your expectation, this isn't going to look anywhere near as good as an HD movie from 2013. It's a highly restored upscale, so no matter how much work goes in it won't have that Full HD shine that more contemporary/film-based media will have across it. It WILL however be sharper, slightly more detailed and the actual animation of the image will be clearer and less blurry. In themselves, good benefits to any show.
For the website I am hoping to compile the best of everything, with downloads of anything related to the show, as well as attempting to make my own articles and such to give the site it's own unique standing in the community - hopefully with contributions from more official sources as I branch out my contacts. Pie in the sky? Maybe. But then, so was compiling all of the "lost" GamesMaster series, and as a group that was managed to an extraordinarily high degree.
I've already affiliated to this site in the Affiliates page, I hope the description is acceptable.
Hope you like the layout, design and focus of the site, and I can chat to you guys in future. Contributions would be awesome, and I'll upload them to the site as needed.