4K Restoration of old Films - Tech corner

[sankar1992]

it depends on how you market it...sharikkum movie craze ulla rich aalukalkku market cheyyanam....price should be set higher than ordinary dvds...should have nice packaging etc.

if i was rich, i would love to have a collection of movies in my home to watch in my home theatre....i don't want it on my computer....actually i would like to have the original prints itself....ippol theatreukalil kodukkunna DCP (digital cinema package) thanne veettil venamennanu agraham.

Yes there are people who thinks like you but that's only a minority. There may be hardly 200 people will buy a Restored Blu-ray. If one of them rip it and upload the movie on Torrent, further sale is over. It is the only reason SAINA hesitated to do a 2k/4k restoration. From the meeting I understand that they want to deliver High quality video to customers but piracy pulling them back. Anyway they agreed to do restoration of one movie. Let's hope it will do Good business for them and they do more movies.

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[BangaloreaN]

Yes there are people who thinks like you but that's only a minority. There may be hardly 200 people will buy a Restored Blu-ray. If one of them rip it and upload the movie on Torrent, further sale is over. It is the only reason SAINA hesitated to do a 2k/4k restoration. From the meeting I understand that they want to deliver High quality video to customers but piracy pulling them back. Anyway they agreed to do restoration of one movie. Let's hope it will do Good business for them and they do more movies.

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Restoration is a great initiative, but if they are only aiming to recover the expense from disc sales, the initiative will fail at the first shot itself.

They should first have a robust strategy to recover the cost from various sources.
Try to list possible methods of selling the product.

If Chemmeen or OVVG is selected, they can even look for a limited theatre release.

[AslaN]

online site erukunadhu ayirikum naledhu 😉....or smart tv channel vellom

[sankar1992]

online site erukunadhu ayirikum naledhu 😉....or smart tv channel vellom

webrip nu vendi aano bro...

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[rajivnedungadi]

Hi all,
Innale Saina Video vision owner Mr Bava um aayi oru meeting nadathiyirunnu. pullik 2k/4K restoration cheyyan thalparyam und but pullik mudakku muthal thirichu kittan prayasam ullathukondanu oru step back ilottu nikkunath. Minimum oru 2000 Blu-Ray copies vittu poyal maatrame pullik ee restoration kond enthengilum labham ullu. Adheham parayunnath ,Puthiya films nte vare 100 bluray aanu maximum vittu pokunnath . avasanam pulli oru movie cheyyam ennu sammathichu. athinte selling arinjitt bakki theerumanikkam ennanu adheham parayunnath. So ivide etra per bluray vaangum ennu arinjal nannayirunnu.

Sale depends on the title. Good titles will sell and be out of stock in a day, poor titles will be on Amazon 299 offer within a month, so depends on which title is being mastered into BD

[rajivnedungadi]

Yeah . athu thanne aanu Mr Bava um parayunnath.
Anyway restoration ini nadakkanam engil pulli vicharichale nadakku. majority of rights pullik aanu. athum oru varshathinullil thanne maximum cheyyukem venam. prints are already in bad condition.

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People have list faith in Saina after the crap DVD5 they released in the last 10 months. Sony lost a lot of money and they stopped releasing anymore titles. MoserBaer quality was better than what Saina and Sony released recently.

[rajivnedungadi]

Yes there are people who thinks like you but that's only a minority. There may be hardly 200 people will buy a Restored Blu-ray. If one of them rip it and upload the movie on Torrent, further sale is over. It is the only reason SAINA hesitated to do a 2k/4k restoration. From the meeting I understand that they want to deliver High quality video to customers but piracy pulling them back. Anyway they agreed to do restoration of one movie. Let's hope it will do Good business for them and they do more movies.

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They have already proved these words wrong by releasing "remastered" old movies in really bad quality

[sankar1992]

They have already proved these words wrong by releasing "remastered" old movies in really bad quality

I think they never released any movies under 'Remastered' category. Let me tell you one thing, they only have Betacam/U matic/Dvcam tape sources. These tapes only have a maximum resolution of 720?576 . DVD resolution is also 720?576. So we can't blame them for quality. They are giving maximum quality they have. Inorder to remaster a movie in at least 1080p quality,they need to acquire the print from lab(which cost minimum 10k). scan the print(which cost 1 lakhs) and finally restoration works & color grading (which cost minimum 2 lakhs). So in total they need to invest minimum 3 lakhs per movie. What if they didn't get at least the investment amount,its a big loss for them. As I told in previous posts, SAINA need to sell at least 2000 copies to get profit from restoration.

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[rajivnedungadi]

I think they never released any movies under 'Remastered' category. Let me tell you one thing, they only have Betacam/U matic/Dvcam tape sources. These tapes only have a maximum resolution of 720?576 . DVD resolution is also 720?576. So we can't blame them for quality. They are giving maximum quality they have. Inorder to remaster a movie in at least 1080p quality,they need to acquire the print from lab(which cost minimum 10k). scan the print(which cost 1 lakhs) and finally restoration works & color grading (which cost minimum 2 lakhs). So in total they need to invest minimum 3 lakhs per movie. What if they didn't get at least the investment amount,its a big loss for them. As I told in previous posts, SAINA need to sell at least 2000 copies to get profit from restoration.

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They released the titles in DVD5 and called it as remastered since 2017. You can search for the titles on Amazon and check the reviews. I have a few movies, both mastered by Saina and MoserBaer, MB (priced at 34/45) has mastered it better, compared to Saina/Sony (INR 130/140)

https://www.amazon.in/Devasuram-Moha...keywords=saina

https://www.amazon.in/Udayananu-Thar...keywords=saina

https://www.amazon.in/Kilukkam-Mohan...keywords=saina

https://www.amazon.in/Narasimham-Moh...keywords=saina

[sankar1992]

Film negative availability - As per Labs

Update 1:

Kilukkam - Lost due to Fire burn
Devasuram - Melted
Sarvakalasala - Melted
Thalavattam - Melted
odaruthammava aalariyam - Melted
Thoovanathumbikal - Lost due to either fire burn or melted.



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