Thanks, I guess it's ok. Don't know if I agree with you about this one being more detailed than the JSC, that transfer have better framing/cropping, less aliasing and dirt but overall I actually prefer this one, mostly because of the colors.

Cool.  I'll grab and seed this one for a while.

Thanks Sluggo.

http://preserv.dreamhosters.com/images/alternatecovers/AvP/msycamore_SW_Technidisc.rar

Very nice AvP! :) Had completely forgot about doing cover art, so thank you for doing it, very kind of you. :) Edit: updated the torrent page with your cover.

grisan, I would like to do at least ESB SWE LD at some point. I'm not a big fan of ROTJ, so I don't own that one.

Is this the very last video transfer to get the glow of Luke's lightsaber on the Millennium Falcon right?

I took some shots for the comparison page.

Neil S. Bulk said:

Is this the very last video transfer to get the glow of Luke's lightsaber on the Millennium Falcon right?

Very nice to see you around these parts again, yes I would say it was the last one to get the lightsaber glow right in that wide shot. I posted a sample of it here: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Smear-free-93/post/530016/#TopicPost530016 (Destruction of Alderaan)

But this transfer have its own set of color problems.

Asaki said:

I took some shots for the comparison page.

?? Moth3r's?

Yeah, I posted them here.

Ah, ok thanks. Don't know if Zion updates that comparison page any longer, otherwise you have Moth3r's page: http://moth3r.heliohost.org/ld-screens.htm But he have two pics not included in your upload. The chroma noise is really awful when seeing it on those stills. :( I see that arnie.d's V8 is missing on those pages...

This is pretty awesome. I actually recorded Star Wars off TV when I was a kid when it had it's network television premiere (in '84 I think), and the colors on this version seem pretty much the same as that broadcast (I always remembered the explosions on the TV version being kind of green in the battle between the Falcon and the TIE ships)

It's cool to see it like this again... since that VHS tape died many years ago from me watching it so much. Thanks msycamore!

Yeah, I know what you mean. Those composites/explosions always had a little bit of green in them, you can see it in some of the earlier transfers and in the THX WOW trailer as well, I don't think you can see it in the THX LD's/GOUT transfer because of the clipped levels and low saturation, but it gets exaggerated in this one because of the already green/yellow tint in some parts of the transfer, Luke's lightsaber and Leia's hologram in Ben's hut are affected the worst I think.

Anyway, I'm glad the colortiming of this transfer bring nostalgia to some of you. :)

I'm really excited to see this different color scheme for SW-and without DVNR! Big thanks for preserving this disc.

msycamore said:

Ah, ok thanks. Don't know if Zion updates that comparison page any longer, otherwise you have Moth3r's page: http://moth3r.heliohost.org/ld-screens.htm But he have two pics not included in your upload. The chroma noise is really awful when seeing it on those stills. :( I see that arnie.d's V8 is missing on those pages...

I don't think Zion has the time to keep his page up to date. My comparison page is temporarily down at the moment, but I'll update it with your capture when it's back.

If anyone can provide shots of arnie.d's V8 I'll add that as well.

Are then any plans for a newsgroup upload or is this only going to be available at myspleen for the foreseeable future?

Moth3r: I'm trying to capture those two frames that are on your page but not the old one, but I'm not exactly sure which ones I'm after, they're both pretty tricky to eyeball.

I can get the V8 too, but it's the DVD5 version if that makes much of a difference.

Moth3r, I have never made a newsgroup upload before, sounds scary ;) not sure how it all works, maybe someone else who now have it could be kind and do it for me? If not, I'll see what I can do.

Asaki, thanks for helping out, I can provide Moth3r with the missing frames if you have problems with it and from the original upload of V8 (DVD9).

Thanks a lot for preserving this one msycamore, and thanks for sharing it.
Props to your mate who did the captures as well.

The GOUT-sync is pure awesomeness.
Guess that means you've inserted black frames at the 2nd reel change?
I love that sort of attention to detail. Bravo!