In my own opinion copyrights are a pain but this is better than the SP 

2.x is a huge improvement (along with more thorough despecialization, there's greatly improved theatrical color fidelity and much less compression).  And that's just on the video side.

Whether you can wait or not is up to you.  If you wait for the whole trilogy to reach 2.x, you'll be waiting a long time.

EDIT: If it helps you decide, watching 1.x merely makes you feel like you're watching something better than the best official home video version of Star Wars ever made.  Watching 2.x makes you feel like you're in the theatre on opening day in 1977.  It's that good.

Yeah, I'd say download v2.1 of SW (or wait for 2.5, which should be out soon but it will only be a pretty small improvement over v2.1 - mostly things you'll never notice if you've not seen the original since the 80s) and watch v1.0 of ESB and ROTJ, because v2.0s are still quite a long way away for those two and the v1.0s are finished products, it's not like they're some half arsed attempts - it's only that v2.0s will be even better - I'd say that for ESB and ROTJ downloading the v2.0 will be kind of like buying the remastered BD of Casablanca - the first release was perfectly ok and adequate, but the remastered is even better.

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Project-Threepio-Star-Wars-OOT-subtitles/topic/13794/

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guiser said:

I don't know about you all, but I prefer the forum drama to a cleaned and polished news letter :-p

Same here!

guiser said:

I don't know about you all, but I prefer the forum drama to a cleaned and polished news letter :-p

Exactly! Let's stir up some trouble...

Hey Harmy, great work and all, but I NEED TO GET it to work on my DVD player. Can you make a DVIX version, pleaz pleaz pleaswwweeee,,????

Hey Harmy, great work and all, but I NEED TO GET it to work on my DVD player. Can you make a DVIX version, pleaz pleaz pleaswwweeee,,????

What do you have - an m2ts file from the 'STREAM' folder of the blu-ray version?  You can easily convert those with a free program with just a little googling.

For example: http://download.cnet.com/M2TS-to-AVI-MP4-DVD-Converter/3000-2194_4-10898518.html

guiser said:

I don't know about you all, but I prefer the forum drama to a cleaned and polished news letter :-p

Yeah, the newsletter wasn't meant for everyone - trust me.  But neither are the forums if you think about it.  Some people are better suited to social interaction than others.

Plus, hopefully, it'll cut down (not extinguish) a lot of questions from new people about where to get it, what version is out, how close are the others, etc.  Once the newsletter gets sent out on the 1st, I'll post in here with a screenshot, link, whatever - so that everyone gets a chance to see it.   That'll also help people find it that pop into the thread and don't read the first page, as so many of them do at times.

Hal 9000 said:

I think he was making a joek. 

Ohhhh... lol.  I get it now.

I *was* going to argue the point of compressing it down ruining the whole point of the conversions but...

My bad.  Just woke up and the coffee hasn't kicked in yet. :)

Move along.....move along...

I appreciate the help anyway ZeroSquared. :)

Mavimao said:

I appreciate the help anyway ZeroSquared. :)

Hey, thanks!

No problem at all - since I'm subscribed anyway. :)

What's the current word on the  Bluray audio commentary?