The First Five Years
Posted: 01 Mar 2019, 16:22https://www.bound2burst.net/movies/first_five.html
You'll notice this link appearing on some of the page headers. It points to a page where movies from the period 2007-2011 are being added on an ad hoc basis, providing access to some older videos and some rarities. I'd like to make it clear that while the movies listed here are all in MP4 format, they have not been remastered. Many of them only survive in WMV format from a time when it seemed nothing else would ever be needed. Master copies were not preserved. In most cases, these MP4 videos have been created by converting the WMV files. It sounds like a recipe for disaster (that's what I expected when I tried it), but the result was surprisingly good. It also removes the problem with those old WMV codecs which are no longer supported.
During the conversion, all files have been deinterlaced. Brightness, contrast and colour have been tweaked to improve the picture. Where necessary, the sound has been elevated by a few percent. In all cases, the videos have been enlarged from 640x480 pixels to 960x640 pixels (in other words, the pixels have been stretched). The teasers are excerpts from these MP4 versions so you get an idea of how they look. Note, however, that the teasers are a little smaller in dimensions than the videos from which they derive because they were created using different software which does not offer an exact size match. All videos cost $5 or less. More videos will be added to this page periodically, depending on the level of interest.
