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I thought those two M7 pictures looked like the M7 anticipation manga. Oops.

Nicolas received payment. Here's an update from him on the HLD-X0 payment plan. "Your order is as follows: + HLD-X0 $4000 + voltage transformer included + Pioneer maintenance included + packaging + shipping $750 estimated = total $4750 estimated - already paid $480 + $685 = $1165 US = still due USD 3585 estimated When we are close to the shipping date i will check all current pricing for DHL, UPS and FedEx, their rates change with fuel surcharges. Assuming that your final payment will cover postage, maintenance will be triggered by your previous payment, should take less than a month, so the shipment can be triggered by the final payment." $3585 US more to go!

iMacross4 UPDATES: 1. Macross 7 remastered a. 46-49 subtitled with Central Anime subs .mkv, 2 parts, HJSplit b. Dyamite 01-04 OVA subtitled with Central Anime subs .mkv, 3 parts, HJSplit c. Encore 01, 02 OVA subtitled with Central Anime subs .mkv, 2 parts, HJSplit d. Galaxy is calling me subtitled with Central Anime subs .mkv, 3 parts, HJSplit 2. SDF Macross remastered a. episode 23,24 subtitled by Galaxy Network .mkv, 5 parts, HJSplit 3. Macross miscellaneous a. Dreamcast_Feb_2001_Macross_M3.cbr b. Yamato_Macross_Frontier_Quarter_Ship_Booklet.cbr 4. Macross Audio Drama a. Macross Generation part 1 and 2 of 2 mp3, 2 parts, winrar thanks macpanda! *************************************** iMacross4 is currently at 94 gb, 822 files. Rapidshare has shaken out a lot of files, so their new maximum capacity for premium rapidshare is 500gb. I'm not sure if there is still that 3 month time limit on files though. So, if you see anything in the iMacross 4 directory list that you would like to download and is not on Macross Share, then send me a pm.

I've been asked a question about the Macross LD Preservation Donator idea and a possible production schedule (best guesstimates). Length of donations: 8 months to send out all payments for HLD-X0. 6 weeks to receive HLD-X0 from Nicolas. HDL-X0 in my place by December. If you donate $10/month = $80, then I would pay you back $10/month starting November. If you're the only donator, then I'll probably just refund you a lot sooner. I'll type your name out on the LD preservation thread, so I can keep track. So far, I sent $1200 CAN for a possible $4072 CAN HLD-X0 LD player. It might be more or lesss, Nicolas has not confirmed the exact price since I will be getting his cheapest HLD-X0. The cheapest might be pretty beaten up. I might go for the one above the cheapest. $700 April May, I have auto insurance to pay, which will be over $1000. $100 June. $700 July $700 August $700 September $400 October for shipping and power transformer Availability and Distribution: There's rapidshare or bittorrents or usenet or irc. Usenet and irc are unknown to me at this time. A bonus for Donators? I'm not sure how I can afford to mail out all the Macross LD bluray discs to donators, since it would be quite a lot of expensive bluray discs to buy + shipping. And I would be paying back the donators what they paid me. The only way I can afford to do that is if the donator pays for the bluray disc and shipping. Then the rest would be distributed by bittorrent or rapidshare or ? Production Schedule: It will likely take me 1-2 months to figure out how to get the best LD capture and hand those videos over to Chad Dunham through the mail / rapidshare for some basic video fixing. Then he hands them back to me after 2-3 weeks through rapidshare. Then I have to figure out how to remove basic video glitches out of the video with After Effects. I have no idea how long that will take. Mercurial Morpheus has offered to do final colour correction (maybe 3-4 weeks for that.) OptimusX is looking into how subtitled AVCHD DL DVD-Rs are made. And I still have to see how to get one bluray disc made with Nero or Power Director software with menus and features just like a DVD. Worst case scenario: One 2 hour movie like DYRL could take 10+ months to get to subtitled bluray. This is because I wanted to see how much video quality on the perfect edition DYRL LD can be restored. Best case scenario: M7 Dynamite OVA 1-4 straight rip, Chad's video fix, MM's colour correction, OptimusX bluray/AVCHD 4-6 months Macross SDF/DYRL would need more work than Macross plus or 7. I'm also thinking about travel time for sharing files and possible computer problems. Subtitles are a possibility, but the main project is first to get the best video/audio from the Macross LDs. So, the initial rips will be unsubtitled huge AVI files that would have audio separately ripped. It's a lot more work once I've thought about it. Maybe, it'll get easier after the first few times.

remastered SDF Macross TV episode 24 subtitled by Galaxy Network bittorrent is available You can check on the Galaxy Network website usually every 2nd weekend for an update on the SDF subtitling project. Seed when you can, thanks! ***************************** For those of you who have not thoroughly looked over The Galaxy Network web blog, you can also find: 1. SDF Macross: Snow Falling in the Galaxy audio drama translated by Gubaba 2. SDF Macross: Miss DJ audio drama translated by Gubaba

Macross Plus CAV international version LDs 1,2,3 are here from Reco Bancou. They are in really great shape! Now it's just M+ OAV 4 international version CAV LD to find. I did notice that M+ OAV 1 CLV LD has the Macross: Future Chronicle video on it. Gubaba was telling me when he picks up the Bandai M+ DVD set that has this video then he'll pass it along to me. Subtitling might be an option considering Gubaba's schedule and interest. Then I would hand over M: Future Chronicle to Chad Dunham for him to make some video adjustments. "Future Chronicle" might be considered for a restoration project using remastered macross video. I'll have to look it over to decide. HLD-X0 News: The $700 cheque hasn't been cashed yet by Nicolas' uncle. Last time, the mail took over 2 weeks to get to Quebec and cashed. We'll see what I can afford for April.

2nd payment ($700 CAN) was sent to Nicolas' uncle for the HLD-X0 LD player was sent this week. 7-8 payments or less to go depending on how much I can keep myself from buying toys and how much I can sell toys on ebay. The final price for the player could be $3000-4000 depending on what shape Nicolas can find a working HLD-X0 for me. He has a bunch of the HLD-X0s on hand. Until I get all my payments in, he's going to keep looking for less expensive HLD-X0 for me. The cheapest HLD-X0 would be the one that doesn't look as nice, but it will be sent to a Pioneer LD repair depot before it's shippped to me. So, it will be in as good a working condition as the nicer looking ones.

There's a "used" copy of this copy and paste book on Amazon that's being sold for $126.85 Canadian. That's why I wrote $100+. Just ridiculous! Maybe, someone could write a "review" of this "book" as a warning not to buy. Seems to be more effort than it's worth.

I was just browsing around looking at what Amazon has for Macross. And then I found this Macross Plus (Paperback)by Frederic P. Miller (Author), Agnes F. Vandome (Author), John McBrewster (Author). It's in english and goes for $100+ US! The publisher is Alphascript Publishing and the book came out in December 2009. It's odd that I never saw anything on Macrossworld about this book. I looked at Frederic P. Miller and found he also wrote a book on Dental Caries. So, I phoned Amazon's customer service to find out if this is a real book. The service rep. lady told me that this book's information was given to Amazon by Alphascript publishing, so it has to be a real book. Not that I was going to buy this book, but I was just wondering if anybody has ever seen this book before?

remastered SDF Macross TV episode 23 subtitled by Galaxy Network bittorrent is available You can check on the Galaxy Network website usually every 2nd weekend for an update on the SDF subtitling project. Seed when you can, thanks! ***************************** Now on iMacross4: remastered SDF Macross TV episode 23 (Galaxy Network) 5 parts each episode, HJSplit ****************************** OptimusX has been busy putting together the subtitled DVD of remastered Macross SDF TV disc 05! It can be found on asiandvdclub.org.

Where can I find a good capture of the "bonus UMD that came with the Macross Ultimate Frontier PSP game" that has the little extra footage? Thanks!

First payment for HLD-X0 received by Nicolas Santini. He's a busy guy, so it takes him a couple of weeks to respond to emails. Ebay sales were pretty lackluster for getting cash together. End of March, ebay fees will be less, so I can post up more stuff. And hopefully, people will be more in the buying mood on ebay once they get their income tax refund. I was also going to try out Kijiji for toy sales, too. I'll see what I can save up for the HLD-X0 next month. I did find M+ OAV CAV 1,2,3 Laserdiscs on recobanchou retail website. So, those LDs are on the way. Apparently, M+ OAV CAV disc 4 is really hard to find. Nicolas Santini had the complete M+ OAV CAV international LD set for only $300 US+shipping. I said "no thanks". Maybe, I'll get lucky on ebay. Otherwise, I did send an email to Neova about the recent M+ LD purchases, so he might be able to find vol 4 LD for me. Also, the Macross SF Challenge LD is on ebay for $110 US. But, I would rather buy Macross books or the CRT TV for colour correction or the composite to component transcoder.

remastered SDF Macross TV episode 22 subtitled by Galaxy Network bittorrent is available You can check on the Galaxy Network website usually every 2nd weekend for an update on the SDF subtitling project. Seed when you can, thanks! ***************************** Now on iMacross4: remastered SDF Macross TV episode 22 (Galaxy Network) 5 parts each episode, HJSplit

This sounds a bit familiar to another Macross CGI project that Jay Lew was working on.

It looks like VIP is almost done with getting the whole M7 series subtitled with Central Anime subs.

I mailed out the first payment cheque ($500 CAN) for the HLD-X0 LD player to Nicolas' uncle in Quebec. A monthly payment plan works best for me. I listed up a bunch of toys on ebay today and some more for tomorrow, so I can make some more funds for the HLD-X0. Otherwise, we're looking at 8-9 months for completion of payment and then 3 weeks later for shipping: October 2010! It's a good thing that I'm so-so on Yamato's Macross 7 toys for this year. I do like the VF-17 though. *************************** Last week, I shipped back the FC-10D transcoder for a replacement. It did reach Escondido, California 6:30 am yesterday. I'll send the guy an email and see if he's picked it up yet. ********************* UPDATE: I was able to get a refund, since he did receive the transcoder back. Very good ebay seller! So, I'm going to pick up that alternate BNC input to composite output on ebay once my ebay auctions finish up next week Wednesday. It looks like I'll be able to list up a whole lot more on ebay starting in March because ebay is finally dropping their fees. Any extra cash does help. I haven't picked up the Toshiba CRT TV yet, but it's still listed for sale on kiijii winnipeg. Also, I asked Nicolas about finding the M+ OAV CAV international LDs for me. I haven't heard back from him yet, since the last email I sent him 2 weeks ago. I guess he's busy or I might be annoying him?

remastered SDF Macross TV episode 20 and episode 21 subtitled by Galaxy Network bittorrent is available You can check on the Galaxy Network website usually every 2nd weekend for an update on the SDF subtitling project. Seed when you can, thanks! ***************************** Now on iMacross4: remastered SDF Macross TV episode 20, 21 (Galaxy Network) 5 parts each episode, HJSplit There's going to be a delay to get Chad's video into the special edition .mkv videos. I'm finding that the ADV audio starting with episode 19 needs to be directly edited. So, I have to listen to episode 19 and onwards before putting the .mkv together. New ADV audio files will be made available for previous special edtion episodes that need to be redone. UPDATE: Bittorrents from asiandvdclub will no longer be posted on iMacross4. You have to go to asiandvdclub.org to register and get those subtitled Macross DVD bittorrents. I cannot offer bittorrents from asiandvdclub on iMacross4 because the bittorrents I download have a built in pass key, so that my share ratio is recognized properly. So, somebody downloaded with the bittorrent that I shared on iMacross4 and it affected my share ratio. I was the culprit/hacker who caused all the trouble.

UPDATE: I had some hardware setbacks . The audio demodulator didn't work at all. The Kramer video transcoder's BNC video input to SVHS output had a B&W, grainy, warped picture. That's the video connection that I really needed to work for the laserdisc preservation. So, I'm working on getting replacements or refunds for both defective equipment. It might take longer to get a refund or replacement for the demodulator with Nicolas Santini, since I paid with a money order to his Uncle in Montreal. I asked the ebay seller for the transcoder to test out the replacement transcoder's BNC input to SVHS output before we swap transcoders by mail. The bad B&W picture on the transcoder could be a Macrovision problem. So, then I would need to buy the other video transcoder that I was looking at on ebay. *********************** I tested the Kramer transcoder and Yamaha demodulator with a Magnasonic Magnavox VCR/DVD recorder, Samsung DLP-TV and a Sony Receiver. I also tried the video transcoder with a JVC VHS player with same bad results. *********************** I need to resolve the Yamaha demodulator refund/replacement, since Nicolas Santini is the guy I'm buying the HLD-X0 player from! ******************* UPDATE again: Nicolas reminded me that the Dolby digital audio on the laserdisc players are quite different than the rca coaxial digital audio from my vcr/dvd recorder. That's why the light on the demodulator didn't light up and no sound was going through the demodulator when hooked up to my Sony receiver. I'm not able to test the demodulator until I actually have a laserdisc player that has dolby digital sound output. So, basically it's time to start sending monthly cheques to Nicolas to get that laserdisc player.

That's what I needed to know. Thanks! I was looking at the CAV M+ ova LDs for video quality and now that's for sure. It's going to be a while before the HLD-X0 gets here. So, I'll practice colour-correcting enough with the video essentials DVD for my monitor until I get the hang of it. Then the LD colour corrections will be that much easier to work though. ******************** There's a guy on half.com that looks like he has all 4 CAV M+ LDs, but he doesn't respond to my emails and anything on half.com is unavailable to buyers outside of the USA. http://shops.half.ebay.com/unkway_macross_W0QQmZmovies He put the LDs on sale, but I can't confirm that these LDs are CAV or CLV for sure because of the lack of communication and item pictures. There isn't a big rush to buy more stuff just now. I was just looking at this guy's LDs because he put them on sale. I could also ask Nicolas Santini or Neova to look for the M+ CAV LDs. ************* I saved a copy of a couple of X0 project videos and the 2nd issue of their newsletter if anyone would be interested in looking. After organizing my Macross files on my computer, I came across some one's DYRL subtitles for their CAV LDs. I'm not sure which subtitle format this is. *************** HLD-X0 Purchase Plan: I'll have to confirm with Nicolas Santini which HLD-X0 he has that would be within my price range. He suggested one that goes for $4000. He says that an almost new in a box HLD-X0 goes for $6000+! $500-800/month payments would be paid off by September or July 2010. Only one VB-6 monster was sold in the Macross Sale thread I posted. I'll start listing toys up on ebay starting this weekend towards the 1st installment on the HLD-X0. Then I'll send the first payment cheque to Nicolas Santini in February. If my ebay sales don't pan out, then I'll just not buy Macross toys for a few months and pay $500/month. Also, I was thinking about asking for monthly $10-20 monthly donations for purchase of the HDL-X0 LD player on the condition that I pay the donations back at the same rate as received. I could only accept $400/month maximum in donations, otherwise I would have difficulty paying back in timely manner. I'll list the donators and working total in the first post, if there is any donators. Paypal gift payment to kaarma@hotmail.com Thank you!

iMacross4 UPDATES: I still have to back up the Macross files to dvd-r, but everything looks to be somewhat organized in the right place. So, here's the updated iMacross4 directory list for requests. If you scroll up to my last post, then you'll notice that I did a few updates there as well.

remastered SDF Macross TV episode 18 and episode 19 subtitled by Galaxy Network bittorrent is available You can check on the Galaxy Network website usually every 2nd weekend for an update on the SDF subtitling project. Seed when you can, thanks! ***************************** Now on iMacross4: remastered SDF Macross TV episode 19 (Galaxy Network) 5 parts, HJSplit remastered SDF Macross TV episode 18 (Special edition) dual audio, Chad's updated sdf video 6 parts HJSplit ******************************* Fan editing notes: Womble video editor is now up to version 5, so I upgraded. It looks like the video encoder in Womble is on par with Tmpeg encoder. So, I had to try it out. New Chad's DRYL .m2v has been re-encoded with Womble and uploaded to iMacross4. 34 parts, HJSplit Chad's original dyrl .m2v has a 7 frame video glitch in the ending flashback concert credits. So, I patched that with Chad's updated flashback .m2v. Chad's .m2v also has the 12 frame boldozaa fortress video glitch. This time I fixed this video error by taking a snapshot of the exterior to fill in the video glitch. You might have to use DGpulldown to get this .m2v to mux properly with Muxman sofware. Download one of OptimusX's DYRL subtitle packages to get the instructions to put this DRYL .m2v into a remastered DYRL DVD and you can add in english subtitles, too. OptimusX has been really busy with Real Life, but he was able to cobble together remastered SDF TV DVD 04 subtitled with bonus features. (Register with asiandvdclub.org for bittorrent to work.) I was thinking of re-doing a dyrl custom movie title with Womble 5 video editor before asking OptimusX to release an updated DHE DYRL DVD. I used Power Director for the last custom english title for the DHE DYRL .m2v and it turned out so-so. So, for this week I'll work on this dyrl custom title. *********************** Then there's the story of star wars return of the jedi fan edit that was put on hold until the hi def video was downloaded from Chad. Now that that's done. I attempted to swap the 25 fps avi with 23.98 fps wmv in Womble video editor and the wmv video looked pretty bad in the video editor. It turns out that the hi def .wmv was 820p and not 1080p. So, I used Handbrake to change the resolution of the hi def wmv video to 1920x1080 avi, in hopes that the re-encoding would make a difference to video quality. I haven't looked at the results yet. I might have to keep the fan edit in 25 fps to completion and then figure out how to convert the video and audio to 23.98 fps.

I just noticed something about the Macross Plus LDs audio on the Macross Compendium. The M+ OAV CLV LDs have japanese dolby digital stereo audio. (All 4 are on ebay.) The M+ OAV CAV international LDs have japanese analog stereo and english dolby digital stereo audio. (I found 1,2,3, but not 4.) The M+ OAV Manga DVDs have english dolby digital 5.1 surround sound and japanese dolby digital stereo audio. The remastered M+ OVA DVDs have japanese Linear PCM Stereo and Dolby Digital Monaural So, the most accurate audio rip for the OVAs would be? If I buy the M+ OVA CAV LDs, then the video quality is more likely to be better than the CLV LDs. But then I would be potentially missing out on the japanese digital stereo audio on the CLV LDs. I do have the remastered DVDs. What do you think? *************************** UPDATE: 1. Video Essential LD is here! It's in pristine shape. 2. All the Macross LDs got here safe and sound. Thanks Totoro242! 3. The FC-10D transcoder needs a couple of BNC adapters from The Source before I can test to see if it's working properly. 4. Colour Correction: I think I have to colour correct the CRT TV first before I adjust the settings of the LD player. The Video Essentials DVD will be here by mail soon. Once I pick up a CRT TV, then I could colour correct the CRT TV with the Video Essentials DVD. Also, I was thinking of picking up an HDMI to composite adapter from ebay to get my computer hooked up to a CRT TV. So, I asked 3x from 3 different ebay sellers about buying a video card to composite CRT tv adapter and received no replies. From the HDFURY2 websites, it says that these adapters (i.e. HDFury2) are only good for high definition tvs that have the same resolution as the the video cards. Even if the HDFury2 does connect an ATI 5770 to the Toshiba CRT TV, the CRT would not be able to receive the signal from the video card. The problem is that the CRT TV's highest resolution is only 480i/p and the 5770 video card's lowest resolution is 800x600. So much for that idea. Alternatively, the HCFR colour correction software can take color correction readings off a crt tv via a laptop with an Eye-1. But, I haven't figured that software out yet. The Eye-1 colourimeter has been tested out with my lcd monitor. It does subtly change the display settings. Looks good to me! So, I'll colour correct the hardware and then Mercurial Morpheus can do the final correction with software.

If you registered on asiandvdclub.org to download subtitled Macross DVDs, then be aware that your account can be hacked. I noticed that mine was: kaarma33. I have never used Mainline/decoder bittorrent software. And I wasn't up/downloading OptimusX's Flashback 2012 DVD and yet kaarma33 was online dowloading with bittorrent software I never use. At least he has good taste in downloading OptimusX's subtitled Macross Flashback DVD. So, I changed my password and reset the connection key for my asiandvdclub.org account. Hopefully, that fixes the problem. *********************** UPDATE: Bittorrents from asiandvdclub will no longer be posted on iMacross4. You have to go to asiandvdclub.org to register and get those subtitled Macross DVD bittorrents. I cannot offer bittorrents from asiandvdclub on iMacross4 because the bittorrents I download have a built in pass key, so that my share ratio is recognized properly. So, somebody downloaded with the bittorrent that I shared on iMacross4 and it affected my share ratio. I was the culprit/hacker who caused all the trouble.

iMacross4 UPDATES: Rapidshare has lowered server limit to 25 gb or 3 month time limit for files that don't get downloaded. I had 250gb and now it's 130gb. So, I'm just going to do some re-organizing and backing up of Macross Files that I have now. Then I'll post an updated iMacross4 directory html list. Just pm with upload requests and then every 2 weeks I'll get some Macross files uploaded that people would actually like to download. 1. SDF TV remastered a. up to episode 20 subtitled by Galaxy Network 5 parts each, HJSplit b. up to episode 18 Special Edition Chad Dunham: video processor dual audio, subtitled 6 parts each, HJSplit You can check on Macross Fan Edits list or Gubaba's Galaxy Network page for updates. 2. Macross Games a. Macross True Love Song WonderSwan game with emulators "Dating sim based in the Macross Universe" b. Macross Fever pachinko 01 promo DVD 4 parts, winrar Use ImgBurn to get dvd files onto dvd-r. c. VOXPlus winrar A great mod for VOXP! d. Macross Crusade card game rulebook pdf I'm not sure what kind of cards can be used or where the cards can be found. e. Screaming Valkyries Beta zip fan-based, side-scrolling Macross goodness! 3. Macross music a. Macross_7_My_Soul_For_You_Guitar.wav 4. Macross 7 remastered a. TV episodes 45-48 encoded by VIP subtitles by Central Anime 2 parts, HJSplit b. Macross 7 English Anticipation .cbr, 2 pages I thought it was more pages than this. I found these two pages tucked away in the Macross 7 picture collection. 5. Macross Frontier a. Frontier Drama CD 03 winrar, mp3 + cbr booklet 6. Macross miscellaneous video a. Kawamori interview Dakoga TV mp4 7. Macross miscellaneous a. Macross windows desktop theme zip b. SDF Macross Fortress 1 2000 picture collection rar c. iMacross4 directory list Jan 19/10 ***************************************** 2010 Macross File Request List: SEE 1st PAGE of this THREAD for UPDATES June 10/2010 *******************************

I looked around Winnipeg retail websites for CRT TVs. Walmart and Canadian Tire have the cheap crt tvs: rca and electrohome. So, I took a look at BuyandSell.com and Kiijii for Winnipeg. This Toshiba 27" CRT , component input, 480i, 16:9 display looks like it will do the job nicely. I even found an hdmi to component video adapter converter on ebay to connect the ATI 5770 video card directly to the CRT tv. (The Toshiba might not be an HD TV, so there could be a compatibility problem with this type of component cable connecting to the video card.) Kramer FC-10D transcoder is now mine! I need to pace myself a bit more, since I'll have to budget monthly to pay for the HLD-X0 payments. I haven't bought these items just yet, but they're on my list. ********************** How to connect everything up: LD player would connect from video BNC (via RCA cable and BNC to RCA adapters x 2) to Kramer trascoder and then to HDPVR (SVHS cable), and then audio RF ac3 (RCA cable) to RF demodulator to HDPVR (SDPIF cable). The ATI 5770 video card would connect to the CRT TV via HDMI to Component adapter. That's the plan so far.