RichardAE

Sorry, those screenshots came in way smaller than I expected. Here is another zoom showing a few rivets that remained in LizardKing's video but were smeared in Sirdrak's (and some differences in sharpness): and more sharpness differences: A couple things to note that make this less than a perfect comparison: * I used the 16:9 encode from Sirdrak and the 4:3 encode from LizardKing. * All of the screen captures were done from a video window that was smaller than the video's native resolution.

A little joy has been brought to the world. Thank you, Sirdrak, for getting this ball rolling. And thank you, LizardKing, for taking that ball and running and running and running. I happened upon Sirdrak's work yesterday and was stunned at the absolute leap in quality over every version of Dragon's Lair I had purchased over the years (yeah, I have all versions of Star Wars and Lord of the Rings, too). Of course, it didn't take long to then find LizardKing's stuff. The screenshots below are for those of you who have Sirdrak's videos and, like me, are wondering if it is worth downloading all over again. Is it that much better? I started downloading the archive and got far enough into it to extract the Space Ace attract video and did a comparison. My answer is, yes, as awesome as the Sirdrak's videos are, LizardKing's are even awesomer. The first thing I noticed was that LizardKing's videos still contained dust from the originals. Nope, that is not dust, those are meant to be there. The algorithm and/or settings were thorough enough to determine that these particles should be in the video (left), whereas the previous encode smoothed them out. This frame shows a lot of differences -- I could spend a lot of time circling the differences in detail, sharpness, and color... ... but I'll just zoom in one spot: Again, thank you guys very much for the work you have put into this.