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Info & Offer: I have Star Wars SEs on Digi Betacam tape, you want my dvd tranfers?

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Hello.
I’ve always enjoyed seeing the odd one or two fan versions, best one was ‘deleted magic’.
Anyway…

I had Star Wars IV and V Special Edition on a set of Digi Beta tapes, if you don’t know what that is don’t bother to carry on reading.
While these were at our desk (don’t ask, it was before Epps was even out) we made our self some dvd’s, episode 4 and 5 are both on two dvd-r’s each, variable bitrate two pass encode for best picture quality. We never got round to do VI which was a shame because at the time the original trilogy was never gonna be released (ZZzz Zzzz).
The tapes were the ***** ************ copies (Shhhh!) so bloody good picture, I was very annoyed when these ended up online as divx but there you go, shit happens.

Anyway, does anyone want me to share these dvd’s? Shall I upload them to alt.binaries.starwars??? They are the best picture of the SE version you will ever see.

Don’t PM me or email me, I wont be checking it again, just reply to this thread, if its gets deleted for rule breaking, sorry, but your whole forum is technically illegal anyway.

:: No rules broken - but to be on the safe side I edited out where you got these from.

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Sure, why not.

The more material to make a better version than LFL, the better.

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: Sadly, I believe the prequels are beyond repair.
<span class=“Bold”>JediRandy: They’re certainly beyond any repair you’re capable of making.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: You aren’t one of us.
<span class=“Bold”>Go-Mer-Tonic: I can’t say I find that very disappointing.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>JediRandy: I won’t suck as much as a fan edit.</span>

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I'd love to see them.

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I'd like to see them. Either myspleen or a.b.sw.
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Are these versions in the original aspect ratio, or have they been reformatted to 16:9?

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Originally posted by: djdd
Shall I upload them to alt.binaries.starwars???
Yes, please do.

And I hope you don't have any trouble finding this thread (since the moderator moved it from the "Other" forum), and don't go away thinking it got deleted for rule breaking.

However, in practice you must take into account the “fuckwit factor”. Just talk to Darth Mallwalker…
-Moth3r

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When a thread is moved, the forum can send an email notification to the original poster (or everybody who has posted in the thread, but I tend not to use that option).

Then again, if he never checks his email...

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I've prepared EpIV, will begin uploading to alt.binaries.... soon

Aspect Ratio is 2:35.1 widescreen

Keep those eyes peeled.
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i have 38 hours to go before the upload is comlete. ZZzz ZZzz ZZzz
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The classic "rename a rar file as a vob file and it plays in PowerDVD" trick works on these files.

I have played quite a few and the quality is fabulous.

How it compares to the GKar, TB and Reivax releases I cannot say until I get the finished DVD into my DVD player and do some side by side comparisons.

It is such a shame that there are only the first two films in the trilogy in this set.

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the picture quality is excellent.....

Thank you for such an extraordinary share.....

I love everybody. Lets all smoke some reefer and chill. Hug and kisses for everybody.

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Might these be uploaded to Myspleen or some other Bittorrent site for those of us without newsgroup access?
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Originally posted by: Number20
Might these be uploaded to Myspleen or some other Bittorrent site for those of us without newsgroup access?


I was hoping for that, too. The first few files posted fine but then my news service dropped almost all the others.
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Could we have some screenshots from those who've got the download?

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Newsgroup upload is complete, just the last few Par2 files to go.

Oh, and my EmpireSBack disc 2 dvd is corrupt, cant rip it. Oh well. Looks like you got IV only.

Enjoy.
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Originally posted by: Darth Editous
Could we have some screenshots from those who've got the download?

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I can keep these up for a week or two........



http://homepage.ntlworld.com/russdawson/gtf/dvd/images/flunk1.jpg

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/russdawson/gtf/dvd/images/flunk2.jpg

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/russdawson/gtf/dvd/images/flunk3.jpg

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/russdawson/gtf/dvd/images/flunk4.jpg

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/russdawson/gtf/dvd/images/flunk5.jpg

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Originally posted by: djdd
Newsgroup upload is complete, just the last few Par2 files to go.

Oh, and my EmpireSBack disc 2 dvd is corrupt, cant rip it. Oh well. Looks like you got IV only.

Enjoy.


Thank you for your time and effort uploading ANH, but excuse me while I kill myself.....no ESB......I'm depressed.

Ah well, I want to thank you again for your time in uploading what you had.....it is very nice.

I love everybody. Lets all smoke some reefer and chill. Hug and kisses for everybody.

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Originally posted by: djdd
Newsgroup upload is complete, just the last few Par2 files to go.

Oh, and my EmpireSBack disc 2 dvd is corrupt, cant rip it. Oh well. Looks like you got IV only.

Enjoy.



Did you try anything like isobuster?
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I have had similar corrupt disc problems and have always got around the problem by reading the disc on one of my other PC's DVD drives.

Some drives just do not like certain discs.

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Before giving up on ESB, try cleaning the disc and as posted above, try reading it from another drive.
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Thanks for the upload djdd, I look forward to grabbing this.

Like russs15, I've also got around disc corruption problems in the past by trying different drives. The other trick I've found is DVD Decrypter can be very good at dealing with hard to read discs - there are several different I/O settings for reading a disc, and some of these are more robust when attempting to read problem discs. It may take a lot of retry attempts, but its helped me recover precious seemingly corrupt discs a few times.

Just a thought.