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pat man said:

I have noticed that any HDR to SDR conversion I’ve seen have a green tint to them (Any movie).
Here is the screenshots from the non-HDR 1080p blu-ray(included in 4K package).
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Star-Wars-Episode-V-The-Empire-Strikes-Back-4K-Blu-ray/257141/#Screenshots

Unless it’s just me. They still need a slight contrast boost. But not to crazy lol.

Chewielewis said:

I do wonder if that green tone is from the HDR to SDR conversion. These caps from the new HD bluray don’t seem to have the same tones on the stormtroopers.

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Star-Wars-Episode-IV-A-New-Hope-4K-Blu-ray/257142/#Screenshots

I find that any HDR conversion screenshots hard to trust.

I was wondering this too, I took the screenshot from a HDR file. But I’m looking at the exact same shot on my HDR TV on Disney+ at the moment and it looks to me the same as what I posted. The Disney+ versions which are basically the same always looked a little warm/green, dark, and desaturated to me, for better or worse.

Took a few screens:

Does anyone here have a good understanding of how to work with HDR content? I wouldn’t want an edit to be automatically inferior by being SDR. I work with AfterEffects and Premiere on Mac.

So I’m completely out of the loop now after following this stuff a few years ago and I’m only just finding about this and the Grindhouse transfers. If anyone could send me a message as to how to find them, that would be awesome.

EDIT: Just noticed the invite notice.

Did DBrennan really deserve to be banned?

Usually hate tints but the green tint is slight and only makes the movie better, IMO.

Harmy, maybe this has been brought up already, but have you seen the several matte paintings and matte elements included as bonus features on the Blu-rays?

Promus said:

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

Yeah, Doctor Who has a killer restoration team.

It's too bad the original Star Trek didn't have as good of a restoration team, either. Although Paramount's idea of "restoration" for the old Star Trek episodes was "make them darker and slap filters on it."

Are you talking about the TOS or the early films? TOS is pristine.

I'm still hoping for another Blu-ray release of the OT with the originals.

As ridiculous as it, I can kind of see the Lucas logic in not including them in a "saga" box set. If he put the OOT in he'd basically have nothing left to sell more Blu-ray editions.

Pasted from the main Blu-ray topic:

I bought the set. Yes, shame on me. Two weeks ago I was boycotting it, and I've been one of the most critical people for about a year. But I got it, I guess because it's Star Wars on Blu-ray. :P

I don't feel like giving LFL the money for these, but to be honest I watched ANH and I'm honestly very happy with what I got. I don't regret it at all. Maybe but it's because I've never seen the HDTV broadcasts before, but the PQ was very sharp to me and the black crush was better than on the DVD. Granted, it looked like they'd just brightened up the picture at times. For example, during the escape from the Death Star one of the TIE Fighter pilot's helmet is completely in shadow, but it's actually a flat grey. Audio quality was outstanding. Overall I was really surprised by how good it looked.

The worst (new) change of the Blu-ray for me actually was the rocks in front of R2, simply because it wasn't consistent at all.

Especially when I put my TV on warm, the colors seemed very accurate to the original film. I hate black crush and blue tint as much as anyone here, but there was no blue tint in what I saw and the black crush was only noticeable in a few scenes. With my TV settings the Death Star actually looked grey-green.

For TESB...I've got my own TV calibrations to completely remove the blue tint on Hoth and shift Vader's saber from magneta towards red.

I'm not sure what anyone's talking about when they saw the matte boxes are gone. They're more obvious than ever.

The deleted scenes are pretty bad. For anyone interested in recompositing it the original opening space matte painting is featured in HD.

After watching the Blu-rays I'm going to watch Harmy's despecialized versions. I honestly think that if Star Wars in 3D fails we'll get the OOT on Blu-ray in the next few years.

"Yes, there will be a new CGI Yoda to replace the animatronic one in Episode I, and yes, there is a small dialogue change in a pivotal scene involving Darth Vader, but at the end of the day, it's still Star Wars, and it's still awesome, right? On Friday of this week, you'll be able to purchase either The Complete Saga or separate Trilogy collections on Blu-ray, and you can rest assured that they come with a ton of extras. There is so much bonus material, in fact, that we don't even know where to begin; click the link above to see its Amazon listing and read through all the extras they're offering with the collection. In short, if you're a Star Wars fan (and really, who isn't, right?), you need to pick this up, and that's all we're going to say about that."

-Rotten Tomatoes ( http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/thor/news/1923554/rt_on_dvd__blu-ray_thor_and_star_wars_the_complete_saga/ )

That's really fantastic quality.

Made an alternate version of Vader's "NO". I'd obviously prefer it not be there at all, but this is a lot more bearable IMO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UCtd_6fBls

Looks like Lucas has decided to completely replace Sebastian Shaw now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGTV8C3oqhk

Even more changes found?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCZrdNBBxMA

:P

adywan said:

you can still see the garbage mattes, especially during the asteroid chase.

Okay, thanks for the answer. Another lie from LFL then.

Adywan, did you see if TESB still has garbage mattes?