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I got my Google acccount back! Hurray! I double checked my google account security settings, so I hope not to get this lost password problem again.

I thought I could get Google to phone me instead (me phoning) them to avoid paying for a long distance phone call. Google is blocking the automated customer support phone service by not accepting any my credit card numbers?! Now I have to phone my credit card customer support to see if there is a problem with my credit cards! ************ Update: My credit cards are okay! And I was able to find a working Google customer support phone number: "Live interaction with a Google account specialist Call us at the number below when you are ready to talk to an account specialist. We will then prompt you to enter your confirmation code. Phone number: 1-877-869-9191 (toll free in the US) or +1-404-978-8444" Now, I just have to wait 2-5 business days for Google's response. If Goolge will not give me back my old account, then the other Macrosshare admin.s will have to re-instate my account using my new Google account.

This is boinger, Macrosshare blog admin. Somehow, when my computer crashed last week, Google lost my password and none of my other passwords would work for my google account. I cannot log onto the Macrosshare blog without my google account to do any updates and I cannot use my youtube account either. (Update: requested name deletions) are the only two people who have admin authority to re-instate me as admin and I have not heard received a response from their emails for over a week now. I'll try emailing them again. Google passoword recovery only works through cellphone SMS messaging now and I don't have a cellphone that has SMS messaging. And because I no longer have access to my google account, I cannot update my profile to say that I don't have a cellphone through Google. Google has been giving me nothing, but automated email responses. I found Google's customer support number in the USA. I get to phone long distance because Google has crappy automated customer support. http://www.google.com/intl/en/contact/index.html Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043 Phone: +1 650-253-0000 Fax: +1 650-253-0001

Thanks for posting this video. I'm hoping a Gunbuster fan can get these translated, too.

I will not be able to recover all of the lost blog post files. I have most of my Macross files backed up, but one of my hard drives died last month that had most of the Macrosshare HD audio and video files on it. I thought that I could just re-download those files from my file locker account. Not any more. To recover those lost Macrosshare files would take about a year or two with my upload speed at 40-50 kb/s, if I can find those files again. Also there were a lot of Macross files that are now permanently missing from the Macrosshare forum that were never posted on the main blog. The forum was not backed up because of the lack of convenient forum back up options and it's just wasn't my responsibility as admin to maintain member files on the forum. The Forumer company was recently bought out by the Yoku forum company. Last month, Forumer was upgrading their forums by backing up forum servers 14,16 & 19 to an Amazon cloud server and that Amazon cloud server crashed and permanently lost the Macrosshare and many other forums. The good news is that the Macrosshare blog has not been closed down and the other admin blog postings are still intact. But, I'm not sure if I'm the right guy to run the Macrosshare blog, since so many things went wrong without enough contingency planning. Other Macrosshare admin.s have been notified.

Rapidshare has locked me out of my account and deleted my files, whether the files were Macross related or not including the WM Cheng Modelling pdfs. 50% of Macrosshare blog is still online, which is the half run by the other macrosshare admin s. Forumer has deleted the Macrosshare forum posts and transferred the new Macrosshare forum to Yoku. The macrosshare forum was an IPB forum on server 19. So, the original macrosshare forum is permanently gone. http://fhq.forumer.c...9-oct-17-a.html In the last week, somebody had logged onto the Macrosshare blog directly to request Rapid points be sent to somebody's rapidshare account. I don't know if somebody hacked the Macrosshare blog or one of the other admin s decided to update the blog without telling me? I know I didn't do that. But, I took down those rapidshare requests today. The same week that there is a Macrosshare blog post request for Rapid points that I never made is also the same week that my Rapidshare account is locked and deleted. So basically, I cannot be a Macrosshare admin anymore.

cdJapan and Amazon Japan have Yukikaze OVA bluray regular edition available for pre-order. http://www.cdjapan.c...ml?KEY=BCXA-645 http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E6%88%A6%E9%97%98%E5%A6%96%E7%B2%BE%E9%9B%AA%E9%A2%A8-Blu-ray-Disc-Box-%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%B3%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E7%89%88/dp/B0093HN6MU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1348669922&sr=8-2 I suspect the that this bluray is still 1080i like the limited edition bluray set.

I spent some time with my copy of Video Essentials (VE) LD and tested this LD player with my LG 55LW6500 LED TV and Sony sound receiver HT-DDW900. I turned off all the LD special video settings as instructed by the VE LD. The video testing took me over an hour to fiddle with the TV brightness, contrast, color and tint. After all that testing, I found that the initial TV set up passed all the LD video tests. And I would say that the quality of LD video on Video Essential looks better than I thought it would look like. It took me more time for the LD audio tests with my Sony surround sound receiver because I had some loose speaker wiring and the surround sound levels were off balance. Now I have the basic video and audio settings done for the TV and sound receiver, The actual viewing experience of watching a LD movie will be the real test. I have three DYRL LDs and other Macross LDs, Star Wars special edition with Dolby Digital sound LDs and Star Wars Definitive LDs. I would like to start off by watching the Star Wars special edition LDs, so I can get some use out of the demodulator decoding the dolby digital sound. While watching a movie, I'll change the LD player settings with/out an external video filter. Once I can get that version of Star Wars looking good on my TV, then I think I'll have the LD settings ready for DYRL video capturing. After that, I can get the computer monitors color-corrected with the Eye-One Display LT Monitor Colour calibrator and get the Hauppauge HD PVR working on my laptop. That's all the LD playing for today! *************** Hi dokworm: You are a real LD officionado! I'm not willing to get a for $1500, even though this video processordoes do a really good job at up-scaling video, because I am going to do the up-scaling and possible video processing after the video capture is done on my computer. Once the video capture is done, Chad Dunham expressed interest in doing some video processing with avisynth software if needed. The only LD video problem that I saw is when the LD video is in step mode and pauses on a single frame that there is a slight video stutter and blurring of the paused image. I think that's normal? Prior to my purchase, Nicolas, LD seller, sent my LD player to a Japanese Pioneer electronics Repair Outlet to make sure that it was working properly with no worn out parts. So, I'm not ready to start doing my own technical performance checks of the LD player. The HLD-X0 LD player is working really well so far.

Hi >EXO<: DYRL perfect edition on LD is lower resolution, a little bit blurry, not quite cleaned up and does have the FB 2012 video footage tacked on compared to the original theatrical DYRL. The DYRL BD is higher resolution, blurry in spots due to camera work or directorial changes or noise reduction and is edited. I'm going to watch both and see what I prefer. *************** Good news! The DeModulator does decode dolby digital ac3 audio from the Star Wars Special Edition LDs. I like Star Wars, too. But, none of the Macross LDs have dolby digital. Most of the Macross LDs have dolby prologic surround audio that outputs from the LD spdif / tos or RCA digital to the Sony audio receiver spdif or RCA digital input. The HLD-X0 has some remote control settings. 1. Clock Ref. : Video or Audio 2. D. Data Out: On or Off 3. Mode: Stereo or L/R 4. Audio: (D)igital or (A)nalog I chose 1. Clock Ref: Video, 2. D. Data Out: On, 3. Mode: Stereo and 4. Audio: Digital I don't know what Clock Ref. or D. Data Out means, but the LD does play properly. The HLD-X0 also has a built in 3D comb video filter. 1. 3D Y/C (8 settings from none to maximum) 2. 3D YNR (8 settings) 3. 3D CNR (8 settings) 4. 3D VNR (8 settings) 5. NR (3 settings from none to maximum) 6. Sharp (8 settings) 7. Memory: Off, 1,2,3 Then I can also choose preset video 3D filter settings. Standard has all the 3D settings, NR and Sharp set to the middle. I don't have a manual for this LD player, so I guess that 7. Memory setting is to keep stored settings of 1 to 6. So, I could try seeing if the HLD-X0 plays video better with just its own 3D filter or better with LD filter + Entech external 2D filter box or the LD 3D filter off and use the Entech external 2D filter box. I have some DYRL movie watching to do and then test out the HD PVR for LD video and audio capture.</exo>

I sent off an email to Nicolas, who I purchased the HLDX0 from. Apparently, the DeModulator is for decoding only Dolby Digital audio from LDs. I have some Star Wars Special Edition LDs to test with the DeModulator and I will hear if that is working for me tomorrow. Unfortunately, none of the Macross LDs have dolby digital audio according to the LaserDisc Database. http://www.lddb.com/search.php?search=macross&sort=title,asc The Macross Plus LDs from Manga Entertainment have dual English & Japanese audio and those LDs would be better for video captures, since those LDs would not have the hard encoded Japanese subtitles. The main thing is that the LD player is working.

I finally unpacked my HLD-X0 and I was watching DYRL on LD! Here's the box that the HLD-X0 has been sitting in since January 2011. Unpacking! 80 lbs of LD goodness! Here is the extra video hardware for external 3D comb and later color correction. The plug in places of the HLD-X0. For the best video from the HLD-X0, I read that you would use the BNC video pin hole and then use a RCA video cable for the output. I got that working just fine. But I found a small audio problem that could affect AC3 audio extraction for later. The included Yamaha DeModulator box doesn't appear to work. The RF DeModulator box is supposed decode the AC3 audio track that is stored separately on the LD. http://home.q03.itsc...YamahaAPD-1.htm Is there some hidden setting on the HLD-X0 that initiates the RF AC3 audio output? I know that the LD remote settings can be changed from Digital to Analog, but that is not the problem. I used a 110 volt converter to give power to the RF DeModulator. Then I used the included RCA audio cable and plugged it into the LD RF AC3 top plug in. The other end of the RCA audio cable went into the RF Demodulator RCA input and then I used a spdif cable to connect the Demodulator to my Sony surround stereo. No audio is being demodulated from the LD when played. I checked that the Demodulator has the electric switch on the back slid to 110 V. Also, I checked that the HLD-X0 audio settings are set to (D)igital and not (A)nalog audio. And the power on button for the DeModulator was depressed in. I know I can get digital audio directly from the LD spdif audio output and the alternate LD RCA digital audio output. Is there a difference between the RF AC3 audio output and the other two digital outputs? My test Anime LDs are: 1. http://www.lddb.com/...loe3-%281995%29 2. http://www.lddb.com/...tion-%281984%29 The DYRL perfect edition has digital dolby surround audio, but I'm not sure if that type of digital audio would necessarily be decoded by the DeModulator? And I found out that the Macross Plus International LDs have English only audio with hard encoded Japanese subtitles. I'm not sure if the LD remote has a button for turning subtitles on or off. That's it for now until I can get my laptop working with the Hauppauge HD PVR and make a test video capture.

That's good to know somebody is still interested in this project! I know I still am and other Macross related projects as well. dokworm, I don't know you so well, since that is your first post here. If you could show some samples of LD video captures or how you get your LD captures done, then maybe somebody might take you up on your offer. What kind of outboard comb filter do you have? Would you be using Avisynth filters or After Effects software to improve the image quality? talk to you later! ************** I've been very busy with personal stuff. Now that I have some holiday time, I'm cleaning up my place and getting my projects back on track. My HLD-X0 LD player is still in the shipping box! I have to clear out some more room in my living room before I can get the LD player working and start testing it out. I'm thinking this weekend would be a good time to start doing that. My 8 year old XP Pro laptop will be used to get the video capture done with the Hauppauge WinTV HDPVR. Otherwise, I have to upgrade my laptop or move my big desktop computer over to the living room where the LD player is. In the meantime, I've been able to order three different DYRL LDs for video capturing: 1.Super Space Fortress English LD, 2. DYRL Dolby digital surround LD 3. another DYRL LD. These LDs have just been ordered last week from Rakuten, so I'll have them by next month. Hopefully, each different DYRL LD are from a different film sources. The reason I picked up more DYRL LDs is because according to the original trilogy forum, multiple video captures from different sources can be re-combined and up-converted in resolution to provide a cleaner image. If people can get that better image quality for Star Wars, then why not do that for DYRL?

I skimmed over that post and pre-ordered the DYRL BD LE set from YesAsia on March 23 when the LE BD set was momentarily difficult to pre-order. YesAsia does not allow cancellations of pre-orders. I just read Macross + Bluray = spend money. Never mind me.

When I pre-ordered the DYRL LE BD set, I did not know about FB2012 bluray as an upscaled version from the remastered DVD. And I definitely did not know about Kawamori smudging two scenes, adding in an introductory text card and altering the audio. I have mixed feelings about this DYRL release. The extra booklets and art cards are great, but the movie itself was misrepresented as the "theatrical" version. It's too late to return this movie to YesAsia, since I had to see and hear how DYRL BD looked. This movie still needs a lot of work to restore properly.

I have that book as a part of my Macross book collection. I thought it was a DYRL scriptbook. Now we just need someone to make a translation.

You found M7 Sketchbook A! Lucky!

Rakuten Japan still has the DYRL limited edition BD set available for sale. http://books.rakuten.co.jp/rb/ /超時空要塞マクロス〜愛・おぼえていますか〜Hybrid-Pack〜ハイブリッドパック-初回限定版「30周年アニバーサリーボックス」-PS3-4582224494767/item/11613852/ But, you would need a proxy service to get it. http://www.ebay.ca/i...984.m1439.l2649 I have bought from Yahoo Japan Auction with this ebay seller many times and received good service. I sent them an email now about buying the DYRL BD on Rakuten Japan. I'll update the post here for proxy pricing. ****************************** Masa, ebay proxy seller said "On Macross anniversary Package:.... Item Price : 11,730 JPY (US$146.63) Our Commission : 1,760 JPY (US$22.00) Total : 20,118 JPY (US$168.63) We would have to find out the EMS shipping cost after the item is delivered to our location."

$232 US + free shipping to Canada on Yes Asia.com I'm just waiting to see if my pre-order for the DYRL limited edition bluray went through. Just now, I received a shipping order number, but no email notice and the bluray is not listed in my new Yes Asia account to show that I just purchased it. I thought I did something wrong and went through the order process again with the same result. Maybe, someone at Yes Asia has to manually confirm the order and send me an email? Now, I need to cancel one of the two DYRL limited BD sets at Yes Asia. **************** Both orders are being processed, so I sent an intra-website message to cancel one of the bluray orders. Maybe, if I see another bluray set for less, then I'll cancel this order.

3 years of waiting and I missed out. I would guess that scalpers are quite happy right now.

I finished looking through the old MW forum 2002-2004 for WM Cheng's model postings. I could not find the VF-2SS model build up, but I did find a website with the completed model pictures. 1. 1/72 Hasegawa VE-1 Elintseeker Completed Photos 2. 1/72 Hasegawa VF-1A Max Super Completed photos 2.A. 1/72 Hasegawa Valkyrie Progress Feb 6, 2002 (missing pictures) 3. 1/72 Hasegawa VT-1 Ostrich step by step guide 4. 1/72 Musasiya VF-2SS Completed Photos

I uploaded the missing pdf files to mediafire and found WM Cheng's completed VE-1 pictures thread in the old MW forum. WM Cheng's first post has almost all the old weblinks recovered. Only the 1st part of the VF-1A Max Super build up is available. I'll keep looking for the other missing WM Cheng postings.

What an amazing project! I hope more Macross custom toy modifications will be made. We are pretty close to seeing a full fan made Macross toy.

otakubell.com 's great laserdisc cover archive is back online! I am backing up the the Macross LD pictures this time. Macrosshare Update: 1. Forum back up is going slowly due to me having too much to do with work and family. 2. I am posting streaming Macross videos to offset the slow re-uploads of missing Macross files. 3. Mediafire will be used to replace the Macross files 4. If somebody sees some missing files that are not from MegaUpload on Macrosshare, e.g. Robotech The movie avi, then instead of posting in the comment section of the Macrosshare post to tell me, please post in the Macrosshare forum. I hardly have time to read the older comments unless there are a lot of spam posts to clean up.

Looking really good! Dark "Heroes" Entertainment Unless Hikuro is actually producing comics as well as dubbing anime?

I like it!