Released already? What a surprise! Beautiful screencaps, by the way. I'm crying now... Marvelous work, Harmy.

I had no idea how much detail was lost in the shots.

I'm seeding at MS.

innerSpaceman said:

Pfft, I'll go you one better (or worse) - I don't even know what myspleen is.

 

Though I can figure it out from context.  Damn, I'm old.  Eh, my computer set-up would likely take days to download something like this, even if I knew how.

 

But ... if anyone could answer a question for an old geezer who got his drivers licence about the same time Star Wars came out in '77, I'd appreciate it:

What's the difference between the download file that's apparently available now and the blu-ray file(s) that Harmy is planning to release later?  I'm not in any hurry, but I would so love to be able to watch Harmy's 2.0 at some point.  

The Blu-Ray will have the same video stream. Some of the audio streams will be in lossless, uncompressed format; there may be more translations and such added by the time the BD comes out, tool. There'll be some other secret goodies too...in addition to super-nice menus and the like.

The MKV that has been released will play in many of today's BluRay players, but will not fit on a standard dual layer DVD, aka a DVD9. You'll have to stream it over your network, or put it on a USB stick or external hard-drive (if your BD player even has a USB port. Meanwhile, you'd have to make sure your USB stick/hard drive is formatted in NTFS or some other format than the prevailing FAT32, because this file is nearly 16GB, whilst the file-size of single files in FAT32 is capped at 4GB. I don't use the USB functionality on my BD player so I dunno). The easiest way to watch this version, if you don't want to deal with setting up a network or copying this file to a stick, is to have a laptop with an HDMI out and using Media Player Classic Home Cinema for playback. If you're technically minded and don't have or want a BD player, I'd recommend getting a Raspberry Pi (I have one) or similar mini-computer, but for everyone else, just connecting your laptop via HDMI should be fine.

An AVCHD version, which is basically a Bluray shrunk to DVD size, will be released, with a bunch of the audio tracks stripped out and the video encoded at a lower bitrate.

Hope this helps.

It's important to note, that the streams in the MKV are all BD compliant, so it can be muxed into BD file structure in TSMuxer, burned to BD and played back on (hopefully) all BD players.

Rox64 said:

So this MKV does not have lossless sound?

I would want a MKV with lossless sound, but I don't want to redownload the entire MKV So a release with only the audio would be fine.

Entitled much? lol

Lossless audio (at least the 5.1) will be available for separate download later.

Here are some more comparisons between v1.0 and Remastered.

https://plus.google.com/photos/109609428403596349302/albums/5781873106061439201?banner=pwa&authkey=CIrmwrmM0s6JwwE

The site however compressed the pictures, so there are a lot of compression artefacts, which are not present in the film

- compare this (imgshack) and this (picasa) - look at the chair behind Chewie.

so I also uploaded a folder with all the pictures in their original form (high quality Jpeg):

http://www.uloz.to/22762346/compar-v1-vs-v2-rar

I recommend watching it as a fullscreen presentation in both cases.

Harmy said:

Lossless audio (at least the 5.1) will be available for separate download later.

 

Here are some more comparisons between v1.0 and Remastered.

https://plus.google.com/photos/109609428403596349302/albums/5781873106061439201?banner=pwa&authkey=CIrmwrmM0s6JwwE

The site however compressed the pictures, so there are a lot of compression artefacts, which are not present in the film

- compare this (imgshack) and this (picasa)

so I also uploaded a folder with all the pictures in their original form (high quality Jpeg):

http://www.uloz.to/22762346/compar-v1-vs-v2-rar

I recommend watching it as a fullscreen presentation in both cases.

 What source did you use for the infamous speeder shot?

The JSC.

The Griff said:

 

 

Thank you, Harmy, and happy birthday.

Thanks, also, to everyone else involved.

Now, does anyone know if I should download this from usenet, would I be able to return to myspleen and help seed? That is, will the two versions match?

Also, if anyone is still in need of a myspleen invite, please feel free to PM me. I've got a few spare.

AND ANOTHER THING, IF SOMEONE COULD TELL ME WHY THE CODE APPEARS IN MY POSTS, I'D REALLY APPRECIATE IT...

 

 

Others have said many times that in your case you need to clear your Internet cache.   I recommend using 'Ccleaner'.  It's a great lil program, here's a link. :

http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/