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Some history lesson:
You may (or may not) have heard of mosaic killer devices (picrel) that purportedly could uncensor the mosaics from AVs, so I happened to find a review of such devices if they were worth a damn or not (at least with laserdisc releases of ancient AVs):
>Now, the most important question: Does it really work?
>Well, to be honest, the answer is Yes and No. I have sampled a fair amount of discs from my collection. The Mosaic remover does allow you to cancel out those with small to medium mosaic blocks. The effect is similar to placing a piece of brown tinted glass over the mosaics, they mosaics will appear transparent and you can see fairly well what goes on behind it. However, since these movies are shot with high-quality professional digital 8mm recorders, it certainly cannot reproduce the decoded image areas back to it's original quality.
>The following sampled disks have the best results:
>Rei Miwa - 2nd movie (Cosmos Disc BLS-03)
>Natsumi Nosaka - Close Up Natsumi Nosaka (Diamond LDVI-36)
>Rohza Tanaka - 24 hours (Diamond LDVI-20)
>In fact, I seemed to have all-out success with the Diamond label, including those starring Rui Sakuragi, Miai Kobato and Himiko. Too bad they are now out of business.
>However, I have absolutely no luck with those releases on the SAMM label.
>The reverse chroma-key function are not satisfactory either, it can
decode at most 15% of those images hidden by the chroma key effect.
>So, I guess the conclusion is that if you are a real die-hard fan of Japanese AV LaserDiscs, this is a toy you might like to play with. It's not expensive, but do not expect really satisfactory results (at least for the AV-8500 Special).
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