FirstLoveMovies

Vague memories of an older post. Ghost/kev/mimzy would know better and more accurately.

Yes, I can't tell you the exact year, but has happened in the early days of FLM that the database got broken and some threads got lost and had to be re-released (RREL).

Thank you! This thread dates to January 2006 so maybe end of 2005 / beginning of 2006.

Night457 wrote: Fri Jan 30, 2026 5:52 pm Thank you! This thread dates to January 2006 so maybe end of 2005 / beginning of 2006.

That sounds logical.

deadman wrote: Sun May 27, 2018 11:16 am

Goldberger wrote:please post this full DVD PAL (posted at a.b.movies.thelostmovies)

Ah. One of mine (like my father, I am known by many names). Featuring the very cute 13 year old Vanessa Gravina. Here you go:

Maramao (1987).PAL.DVD.iso



Here are direct links for those who prefer that method or can't use eMule for whatever reason. All I ask is that if you're able to use eMule, please move the file to your shared folder and seed for a while. Every source helps.


MEGA:


Single link
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1 GB links
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I'm shocked - Ghost has not done an upscale of this?
I can have a go at a 720p and see how good it comes out - but haven't bought a version of Topaz from the last few years

As you are motivated by this movie, clearly you are the right one for the job. You gotta love your work, right? Share with us your results please.

I'm shocked - Ghost has not done an upscale of this?

I only work on films I am interested in.

Why always scared of 1080p?

ghost wrote: Sat Jan 31, 2026 8:41 pm

I'm shocked - Ghost has not done an upscale of this?

I only work on films I am interested in.

Why always scared of 1080p?

This might be a PAL DVD, so 576p not 480p, and it's not even interlaced - even though DVD2AVI thinks it is.
But if you look at this film transfer you'd be shocked - the halo's are horrific in it. It's a 1980s quality telecine from a bad negative covered in quite a lot of scratches. The colours look pretty washed out and even 720p is pushing it in terms of quality.

look at the horizon line and the bad halo'ing.
This is how bad the DVD source looks.

Topaz is removing those halos quite well.
The humans are looking pretty good, got the aspect, grain and sharpness about right. But in some landscape scenes it causes a few faint ghosting artifacts if you look at the edges of the rocks. Am using a different "dehalo" setting that's removing less human skin detail and causing less artifacts.
But no way I'd want to push this beyond this 720p resolution. The quality just isn't there in the source.