I nabbed the Star Wars Despecialized v1.0 and must say it was incredible!

So I was wondering how the DVD-5 of Empire looks as compared to Adywan's Theatrical Reconstruction (not just faithfulness to the original, but also in terms of detail, compression artifacts, etc)

Just wondering if it's worth getting yet another Empire DVD.

The link for the picasa comparisons isn't working, is it down or?

Weird, the address must have changed or something. Anyway, it should be working now.

It is on Multiupload, so these are mirrors, you need to look at file names and only DL each once.

Thanks :-)

I asked this in another thread, but remembered it should be asked here.

So you mentioned using the puggo strikes back for a revised edition of ESB. What shots did you not find satisfying and felt had to be changed? As far as I see it, ESB looks awesome as it is.

Well, the are a few more things I'd like to Despecialize - some of the Hoth battle shots and Falcon coming to cloud city and some of these shots had really bad DVNR smearing on them in the GOUT, so Puggo's version should be much better for those.

Also, I recently learned that there is many more of those zoomed in cockpit shots, so I might try and do those too.

I'd probably recommend going with the 5.1 mix or the 93 mix. The way I understand it is that the 1980 mix is from an lesser source.

May I ask what is the point of upscaling it though? When you re-encode, you always loose some quality and your Blu-Ray or media player is capable of upscaling it as you go without any loss of quality due to yet another recompression.

Harmy said:

Well, the are a few more things I'd like to Despecialize - some of the Hoth battle shots and Falcon coming to cloud city and some of these shots had really bad DVNR smearing on them in the GOUT, so Puggo's version should be much better for those.

Also, I recently learned that there is many more of those zoomed in cockpit shots, so I might try and do those too.

Harmy said:

Well, the are a few more things I'd like to Despecialize - some of the Hoth battle shots and Falcon coming to cloud city and some of these shots had really bad DVNR smearing on them in the GOUT, so Puggo's version should be much better for those.

Also, I recently learned that there is many more of those zoomed in cockpit shots, so I might try and do those too.

 hey harmy,

are you taking requests?

if so one thing i'd like to see is some of the laser blasts on the hoth battle rotoscoped in.  alot of the laser blasts don't look red any more in the 2004 editions.  they look more white/yellow and are hard to see with the hoth snowy backgrounds

Well, most Hoth battle shots were recomped, I didn't use GOUT, I just kept the SE ones. In v2.0, I'd like to replace some of them using PSB.

I'm afraid you may have to reDL, no one else reported similar problems.

mattpannella said:

i keep getting I/O errors around 49% burning this with imgburn

i burned the new hope despecialized fine. any ideas? should i try redownloading esb off jdownloader?

Use better quality discs. Verbatim DVD+R DL are the best.

Please forgive me if this has been asked previously - I've only just discovered these edits and I am very interested in checking them out.

Are you planning on releasing any newer versions or updates any time soon for any of your despecialized versions? I think I read you were planning on working on a 1.2 version of Star Wars? I am wondering if it is better to wait until you have made any changes or are these versions considered final?

Well, v1.2 of STAR WARS is indeed being worked on now but it won't be done for quite a while and I do plan to do v2.0 of ESB but that's months down the line.