Yeah, from what Rintzler said in the interview, there's going to be a TON of extra stuff. Whereas the print book may have had 1 picture of something, the digital might have 5-10. And there's going to be clips: specifically what was mentioned was the crew roaming around the Death Star, an alternate version of the Luke Hoth scar restoration, etc.

I'll try and scan the important parts when I get back home today.

I can only imagine that the file sizes for these books is going to be huge.

More 35mm film from the archives getting scanned and sold that isn't the actual movie. They're just screwing with me at this point.

I'm pretty sure those extra clips will look like crappy 360p YouTube vids. So basically it's (possibly great) material going to waste, because of no proper release.

Laserschwert said:

I'm pretty sure those extra clips will look like crappy 360p YouTube vids. So basically it's (possibly great) material going to waste, because of no proper release.

I'm sure you're probably right. I mean, these are meant to be read/played on tablets so the quality needn't be that high.

However, I'm hopeful that any transfers done had a higher master that could possibly be used for individual releases. Lets face it: each film deserves its own special edition with film-specific extras. I'm hoping Disney sees the potential there.

Weeelll tablets are pretty hi-res these days. You might actually be looking at 720?

I miss the days when stuff like this was actually released on CD or DVD.

Mielr said:

Just more bonus stuff to eventually get released on the OOT Blu-Rays. ;-)

Imagine if they released 1 every 2 years to coincide with the new films? Damn.

msycamore said:

Baronlando said:

More 35mm film from the archives getting scanned and sold that isn't the actual movie. They're just screwing with me at this point.

 They have been screwing with us for a very long time....

digitalfreaknyc said:

 

Mielr said:

Just more bonus stuff to eventually get released on the OOT Blu-Rays. ;-)

Imagine if they released 1 every 2 years to coincide with the new films? Damn.

 

Lucasfilm publically stated seven years ago that they don't have any future plans to restore these films.

Lucas himself have stated that they are dead to him and that he wish they disappear, when being confronted with this question he always give weak excuses not to do it.

Rick Mccallum said in an interview a few months ago that "officially it will never happen."

About four years until we will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the death of the Original Trilogy.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not a newbie here. I'm aware of all of that...but a lot has changed.
Hopefully the Disney deal will change some/all of this.

And, realistically, you could say that 9/15 is the 20th anniversary of the death of the original trilogy. That's when the laserdisc set was released and the last remaster of GOUT.

msycamore said:

Baronlando said:

More 35mm film from the archives getting scanned and sold that isn't the actual movie. They're just screwing with me at this point.

 They have been screwing with us for a very long time....

digitalfreaknyc said:

 

Mielr said:

Just more bonus stuff to eventually get released on the OOT Blu-Rays. ;-)

Imagine if they released 1 every 2 years to coincide with the new films? Damn.

 

Lucasfilm publically stated seven years ago that they don't have any future plans to restore these films.

Lucas himself have stated that they are dead to him and that he wish they disappear, when being confronted with this question he always give weak excuses not to do it.

Rick Mccallum said in an interview a few months ago that "officially it will never happen."

About four years until we will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the death of the Original Trilogy.

This is the first I've heard of McCallum saying that. Was it before or after October 30th of last year?

Also, yeah, LFL officially said that to all of us almost seven years ago (how could we possibly forget?), but didn't Lucas himself say just a couple years ago at some convention that it was a matter of the OOT being too expensive (as of that date) to restore?

Let's be honest. If George had wanted the OOT to (eventually) die with the tapes and laserdiscs, he never would've put it out on dvd. It renders his quote I read in someone's sig kinda meaningless. The GOUT may have been garbage quality by 2006 standards, but it was still technically speaking the highest quality official transfer of the original versions ever (essentially the '93 lasers viewed directly from their digital source). More importantly, it was now on a completely digital format that could be preserved bit for bit exactly as it was, ad infinitum. If it'd been about anything but money, Lucas wouldn't have put it out at all.

It's entirely possible Lucas stipulated the OOT remain buried when he sold Star Wars to Disney. You would think $4 Billion would've earned them his permission, and I would certainly hope it was enough money to make him no longer care.

Fang Zei wrote: This is the first I've heard of McCallum saying that. Was it before or after October 30th of last year?

Here's a fairly recent quote: January 18th, 2012

Article: http://collider.com/rick-mccallum-red-tails-star-wars-tv-series-interview/138426/

Thread: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/McCallum-Wishes-OOT-Were-on-Blu-Ray/post/582848/

 

 

Lets face it: each film deserves its own special edition with film-specific extras. I'm hoping Disney sees the potential there.

 

Been thinking the exact same thing for a while now.

Even before the Disney deal happened, I was thinking this would be a great way for LFL to ease their worries of "we'll never make enough profit off a proper release of the OOT to justify the amount we'd need to spend on restoring it."

msycamore said:

Rick Mccallum said in an interview a few months ago that "officially it will never happen."

But you took that quote way out of context, so it doesn't mean what it does in this shortened snippet.

I would have to answer that officially it’s never gonna happen, but you never know with George. It’s one of the constant things that—let’s put it this way, it changes always. You never know.

It's basically just that the official line ("I would have to answer") at that point was no OT, and that's pretty much what all LFL employees were saying. He also admits that the "official line" doesn't mean sith with Lucas anyway, so the whole quote basically means nothing.