Here's an idea, as a special feature on the bluray, why not include a fan-made documentary about the film? Jamie Benning's "Star Wars Begins" filmumentary would be a perfect fit, I think:

http://vimeo.com/32442801

It's feature-length, and the flow follows the movie itself, but putting in behind the scenes footage, on-set audio, behind-the-scenes shots, pre-effects shots, commentary from cast/crew, deleted scenes (like Biggs' original scenes), captions discussing behind-the-scenes facts, all sorts of good stuff. It's fantastic.

It's 1.4GB for the version that's on Vimeo (you can download the original 720x576 m4v from there). Could Jamie Benning be contacted to get permission to include his documentary on the bluray? It's one of the best documentaries on Star Wars I've ever seen, second only perhaps to Empire of Dreams.

@animemaakuo: If you want, you could send me a pm and tell me what Samsung model you have and I might be able to find some useful tips and maybe even settings. Let's not keep discussing off-topic here. Sorry Harmy!

Guspaz said:

 

Here's an idea, as a special feature on the bluray, why not include a fan-made documentary about the film? Jamie Benning's "Star Wars Begins" filmumentary would be a perfect fit, I think

 

Jamie, aka Jambe, has been been known to post on this board. See threads for his three Star Wars documentaries:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Star-Wars-Begins-Youtube-PAL-NTSC-Versions-Released/topic/7307/

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/BUILDING-EMPIRE-PAL-NTSC-DVD-NEW-EDITION-NOW-ONLINE/topic/2782/

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/RETURNING-TO-JEDI-NTSC-amp-PAL-DVD/topic/4184/

But, given that that's a separate project, I doubt it would be included with this.

Sure, I mean, I already have the a copy of the thing, I just thought it would be fitting seeing as how many commercial movie releases have behind-the-scenes documentaries, and including a fan-documentary with a fan-edit as a bonus feature would be neat.

All jokes aside, I do have a VCR and it would be fun to transfer to VHS and see what it looks like on the old format. Although I'm not sure whether letterbox or fullscan would be better.

Leonardo said:

Now that we have the technology, why not send the video signal to the vcr squeezed all the way to 4:3, and unsqueeze it during playback using the tv's aspect ratio options?

As I mentioned before, I like the idea of both, so I might make a squeezed 4:3, and a letterboxed 4:3, maintaining the black bars in the source video of course. Now, I need to check if my VCR does NTSC, or is PAL only.

Teeceezy said:

Leonardo said:

Now that we have the technology, why not send the video signal to the vcr squeezed all the way to 4:3, and unsqueeze it during playback using the tv's aspect ratio options?

As I mentioned before, I like the idea of both, so I might make a squeezed 4:3, and a letterboxed 4:3, maintaining the black bars in the source video of course. Now, I need to check if my VCR does NTSC, or is PAL only.

Perfect timing, we've now got just the thing for you to put the audio on for the deepest, warmest sounding effect... http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/13/03/25/187200/direct-to-vinyl-recording-makes-a-comeback-video

animemaakuo said:

Honestly, I'd love to get a new Panasonic, but the reason I keep my Samsung is because of the "flesh tone" option. I have old animated DVD's that were never remastered (aged film put onto DVD), which, the flesh tone option seems to color correct to where it looks like the proper colors are back (restored for the most part).

It's just that I thought with a proper calibrated TV, that flesh tone option would be even better! 

 

I also don't think Panasonic has a flesh tone option. =/

I think you're seriously missing the point of proper calibration, which is to have your screen correctly portray images as intended.  Using anything to monkey with the image after that completely flies in the face of logic, since perfect picture is perfect picture, regardless of brand, and applying consumer hardware level gimmicks like "flesh tone" only serves to misrepresent the intended look.  You have to decide if you want what seems good to you now (having most likely never seen a properly calibrated screen) or if you want what looks like it is supposed to.

@yoda-sama: I continued the discussion over pm, and in animemaakuo's case it was about a hue-shifted DVD which had green sky and pink skin tones. So I understand if that flesh tone option could make it look slightly better.

Still, he should focus on getting better source video than buying TV's based on gimmicks that make his bad transfers look better to him.  Making the TV show colors correctly so the v2.5 looks the way Harmy intended is the part of his question that is related to this thread.  Once he gets his TV looking right, then he'll need to address his bad looking DVDs, not muck up calibration settings.

has anyone successfully burned the myspleen version to DL disc and played in PS3 - on a mac and using free tools?

i am pretty sure i did it successfully for 1.0 but then whoever put 2.0 on myspleen nicely put it in .iso format so i forgot the magic incantations i used for the first release.  2.1 on myspleen does not have the .iso wrapper and i am having no luck with web searches this time.

so far i am able to create a disc that the PS3 recognizes as an AVCHD movie using burn-osx, but it won't play the stream.

aascii,

I'm in the same boat though I'm not in any rush since I'm only interested in burning physical discs for friends/family. But if I solve this before you find other help I'll post the recipe here.

FWIW, it may be easier to spin up an MS Windows VM, use tools on that platform to create ISO and move that back to OS X to burn.

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AntcuFaalb, rest easy, I think your TV is quite safe from us.

As for burning 2.1 on a mac, have you tried running imgburn through WINE?

Hahaha! Man that was awesome! Once again, top notch work Harmy!

Harmy said:

Just for fun, here's a v2.5 version of the Despecialized Edition logo sequence for the BD extras:

http://uloz.to/xeQQCjb/deed-v2-5-logo-ac3-m2ts

I'm assuming the giant creature which the yellow letters knocked off the screen was a CGI edit by George Lucas? 

OSX users:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=9046125&postcount=18

note:  i'm not sure if it's necessary for success, but i first created CERTIFICATE and CERTIFICATE/BACKUP directories (empty) in the "Star Wars DE_2.1 AVCHD" directory.  and then i did touch * in that directory to make sure BDMV and CERTIFICATE had the same date.  then i follow the procedure at the above link.

i have a DL disc that plays on PS3 now!