ChainsawAsh said:

The masters used to make the DVDs were, in fact, 1080p.  That's where the HD broadcasts came from.  I doubt we'll be getting new transfers.

Yep you are right.  Lucasfilm did the scan at 1080 only and sent the hard-drives to Lowry to do the DVNR process, and grain removal. frame repairs and whatever else they did.  They were not responsible for the color timing as ILM did that with Lucas in charge,lol.

So far all we know is that star wars 2004 special edition is getting a new lossless mix from the same guy who did that bad 2004 one, Wood.

I am almost sure it will be DTS-HD, as the audio carrier/codec makes very little difference.  DOLBY-HD is a lower bitrate but if from the same sound master they would sound almost identical from a blind test.

Adywan said it looked like to his eyes Phantom Menace was given a new transfer, but without any official word on that it is just hearsay.  Though i trust his word above a great many other posters, because he was not putting us all on.

Transfer, schmansfer.  They are the SE's, I don't care if they are 1080p or 480p.

Has any word been released on what kind of extras this set has to offer?

If they are in HD, then I'm gonna have to think about it.

The audio has been confirmed to have been remixed. Probably because they wanted to do some sort of 7.1 HD audio version, so they decided to just start over. The picture I am sure will be pretty much the same; I can imagine them fixing some of the lightsaber issues, but I would say there is an equal chance that everything will be left exactly as they are.

As for whether the picture will be better than the broadcast versions enough to justify plunking down what will be probably $70-90...well, that all depends on how much you enjoy the SE. For some, there's no price that justifies it, for others they might be willing to if it was priced right. But as to whether the picture will be significantly improved period, I would say yes. The difference will not be extreme or anything, because some of the HD broadcast versions are quite good. But it definitely will look and sound much better on Blu Ray (well--in theory, anyway, you never know with LFL these days). And of course the set will have other value-added material, including some new docs but more importantly deleted scenes that I have a suspicion will be in HD. The deleted scenes will probably be put on Youtube (and yanked, and then put back on, etc.). In any case, if you really just wanted to see this stuff you can always rent the set; if I had a BD player that's what I would do, just to satisfy my curiosity of seeing the films in HD and also checking out the new supplementary stuff.

"I think when the Blu-rays come out owning the DVD's are no longer grey area enough for downloading HDTV rips. And so those will essentially become obsolete."

They will  become obsolete, but only because the BD will be of higher quality so there would be no point in holding on to lesser transfers. Unless the films are changed again, but I personally doubt there will be any changes.

ChainsawAsh said:

New deleted scenes, probably for all six movies, in HD.

Say what you will, but that has me sold.

kenkraly2007 said:

So Zombie84 your saying The audio for the blu-ray release has been remixed? Where did you hear this?

Matt wood has spoken about the new audio mix for Epiosde 4 on the forecasts podcast. There is a bit about it here:

http://www.slashfilm.com/new-star-wars-wars-audio-mix-created-3d-re-release-still-coming/

And this will put an end to you saying the sound mix will be fixed for the blu-ray release after reading above about the new Obi-Wan Howl in Ep4. Just take a listen to the new howl:

http://hotfile.com/dl/77458223/09f6e53/obi-wans_new_roar.mp3.html

You seriously can't tell me that this is going to be a better mix after hearing that monstrosity.  I think they have all lost their minds. And before you say it, no, this isn't fake. It's taken direct from the new "sounds of Star Wars book"

adywan said:

kenkraly2007 said:

So Zombie84 your saying The audio for the blu-ray release has been remixed? Where did you hear this?

Matt wood has spoken about the new audio mix for Epiosde 4 on the forecasts podcast. There is a bit about it here:

http://www.slashfilm.com/new-star-wars-wars-audio-mix-created-3d-re-release-still-coming/

And this will put an end to you saying the sound mix will be fixed for the blu-ray release after reading above about the new Obi-Wan Howl in Ep4. Just take a listen to the new howl:

http://hotfile.com/dl/77458223/09f6e53/obi-wans_new_roar.mp3.html

Nothing will put an end to him saying the sound will be fixed, unfortunately.

adywan said:

 

And before you say it, no, this isn't fake. It's taken direct from the new "sounds of Star Wars book"

Ain't no lie. I forget where you originally posted this Ady, but I rushed out to Borders too see for myself. It's just too ridiculous. I really can not believe anyone would think it sounds anything but silly.

...then again, I couldn't believe that the original cg Jabba was approved for the New Hope SE.. Or the horrible herky-jerky movement of a cut-and-moved Han dogging Greedos blaster fire... or a stupid cg band for Jabba's palace... or... ok. Never mind. I believe it. ...sigh.

Yeah the new roar is pretty hard to believe. In fact, part of me still thinks it's a mistake, that they put a work-in-progress test file on there by accident or something. It's also strange how they don't mention that the roar was changed for 2004 and then again for 2010, which also puts some doubt in my mind as to what is actually going on. But this is just typical Star Wars fan denial. A lot of the SE is hard-to-believe levels of badness, from the editing and CG changes to the colouring to the picture resolution to the sound mix, so this is pretty typical I suppose.

Actually, I've been developing a lot of schaudenfreude towards the SE. I hope they continue to fuck things up so that more people will see how better things were in the first place. Let's put Jar Jar in A New Hope and redo Yoda in CG flipping around!

Well, Obi-Wan's lightsaber isn't purple anymore... but the rest is all the same. Don't feed the troll dudes.

bkev said:

Don't feed the troll dudes.

But what would I do then?

Wait...