I say leave the 5.1 DTS-HD as it is, but yes, do include the REAL original mono track and possibly add the TV Spots from the R1 2002 release. P.S. Love the movie too! ^_^
I love all 6 films. And as far as The Phantom Menace goes, I enjoyed it like how I also enjoyed the Ice Age trilogy. Hayden did have a few hit and misses but he was still good and also, you got to understand the hero's journey to the dark side (what he fears and what he's lost, it ain't easy for anyone). And I did like Jar-Jar (I know some if not most people here hate him). So to sum it up, the prequels were fine.
Well Jaitea, the pic is good. But even if it didn't work in motion, I would love to see it in motion.
WOW! Adywan's making a ANH preservation too! Can't wait for those two to come out! :)
A good fan made Star Wars Blu-Ray trailer:
I don't know, I listened to the 2004 mix and it wasn't that bad. And of course the sound will be fixed for the Blu-Ray (7.1 sound, anyone?).
Thanks for doing this. I really need a new ROTJ 1983 Preservation disc for my collection. :)
You know what you should do, have the 5.1 track with Han saying "It's alright I can see alot better" and the 2.0 laserdisc/ 2006 GOUT mix with Han saying "It's alright, trust me." Would that be a cool idea?
To be fair, OCPMovie's ESB Classic Edition was made before the OOT was released in 2006. Paulisdead's preservation was nice but had just 3 instances of the SE soundtrack (EX: Cloud City's Elevator sound effect as Lando, Han, and crew are walking into Vader's trap). I would really love to see Adywan's preservations of ESB and TPM.
What was wrong with the DVD covers? I liked them.
I've seen the work and I love it! There should be more people like that who love to reconstruct trailer and TV spots.
Something that needs to be fixed:
When the beep goes off on the Millienium Falcon when they're losing deflector shields before they make the jump to Lighspeed and head to Alderaan (before it was destroyed), the flashing red light on the button goes on a few seconds before the beep starts.
Here's what you can expect from Season 3:
http://www.theforce.net/latestnews/story/CV_TCW_Season_3_Panel_Coverage_133279.asp
http://www.digitalbits.com/#mytwocents
"Well... as you might expect the discussion today is all about Star Wars on Blu-ray. Predictably, a LOT of fans bemoan word that Lucasfilm is only including the special edition versions of the film, and not the theatrical cuts. It could easily be done via seamless branching, much like we're seeing on Fox's comprehensive Alien Anthology or as Sony did on their Close Encounters Blu-ray. It seems the sad reality is that creator George Lucas just doesn't want to include them. That's really a shame, and I'm sure Lucasfilm will be hearing an earful from fans. Still, as I said on Saturday, I am at least encouraged to finally see more of the vintage deleted material from the original films. Again, I just personally hope all the DVD color timing issues will be fixed (more in line with that of the the original Star Wars laserdisc box set) and that the Episode IV soundtrack issues will be fixed (the reversed score in the surrounds and the missing/dialed back trumpet fanfare when the X-Wings first dive to attack the Death Star). I guess we all have our nits to pick.
Speaking of deleted material, it's worth pondering at this point exactly what that deleted footage might be. There's little doubt we'll finally see the fully-digital Yoda in Episode I, and if I'm not mistaken an unfinished deleted scene from Episode II (in which group of Jedi led by Ki-Adi Mundi and Plo Koon attack the Droid Command Ship on Geonosis) appeared on Star Wars.com briefly. Maybe that will be included as well. From the original Star Wars, there's all that infamous deleted footage of Luke on Tatooine watching the space battle with binoculars (see image below), then telling his friends (in Anchorhead) about the battle and having a lengthy discussion about joining the Rebellion with Biggs. Plus there are shots of Han with a woman in the cantina in Mos Eisley. All of that appeared on the Star Wars: Behind the Magic CD-ROM, so it's reasonable to assume it could be on the Blu-rays. For Empire, there's the infamous "Wampa attack" on the Rebel Base material, and there was an alternate Han/Leia scene at Cloud City in the Empire of Dreams documentary. And for Jedi, we've just seen the scene in which Vader talks to Luke via the Force and Luke finishes building his lightsaber. (The footage is linked in Saturday's post.) There's also a missing scene in which - having just freed Han and Leia from Jabba the Hutt - everyone returns to the Falcon and Luke's X-Wing on Tatooine in the middle of a sandstorm (again, see image below). There are many other rumored scenes as well, so it'll be VERY interesting to see how much of it we'll finally get to see on the Blu-rays, and just how finished/polished the scenes will be. For those interested in the topic, Wookieepedia has a list of these rumored scenes, and T'Bone has a pretty good page dedicated to known details about the cut scenes (with photos) as well."
Starwars.com has posted the latest trailer for Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 3. And the premiere is a month and a day away. I know I'll be tuning in.:
http://www.starwars.com/video/view/001074.html
Thoughts?
TV's Frink said:
You wouldn't happen to know OCP or Zigfried, would you?
I'm good friends with OCP.
I should've brought this up before:
When the beep goes off on the Millienium Falcon when they're losing deflector shields before they make the jump to Lighspeed and head to Alderaan (before it was destroyed), the flashing red light on the button goes on a few seconds before the beep starts.
Mayhaps some people didn't hear what Lucas said:
"You have to go through and do a whole restoration on it, and you have to do that digitally," he said. "It's a very, very expensive process to do it."
So it's obvious he's willing to do a proper restoration on the OOT if he has enough money. So the OOT will come to Blu-Ray, the only question is "when"?.
What would be better than a proper release of the OOT is:
-Proper Thief and The Cobbler DVD/Blu
-A Famous Studios Collection of Popeye from WB
-A serum for everlasting life
-Blu-Ray releases of the Phantasm Qudrilogy, Mallrats, Freaked, The Frighteners, Sgt Kabukiman N.Y.P.D., and Who Framed Roger Rabbit
-SE DVD/Blu-Ray releases of Child's Play 2, Halloween II, the Director's Cut of Army of Darkness, Bad Taste, Dead Alive, Puppet Master sequels, and the original Pink Panther sequels
-Everlasting money
-The upcoming release of the Alien Quadrilogy on Blu-Ray
I watched the GOUT discs and I never noticed those frames were missing. I DO know that the Laserdisc of TESB was missing a scene of Lei welding the Millenium Flacon and that was added back to the GOUT DVD disc.
One of the greatest things I've ever seen!:)
I was kinda hoping that the original theatrical versions would make it to Blu-Ray. But I agree with Dphirschler, they should at least include a DVD copy of the Theatrical Version with each Blu-Ray of IV-VI with better remastering, anamorphic enhancement, and have the original mono for ANH as an audio option. But I'm glad the Saga is coming out next year to Blu (it will be the release of the 2011!). But, what about the Prequel Trilogy? Surely the theatrical versions of them still excist with Lucasfilm. They could easily be added with the Blu-Ray by seamless branching or as an exclusive DVD copy. Incidently, will the version of the Prequel Trilogy be new or the same DVD versions?
There are 15 deleted scenes on the Platinum Edition DVD. Was that the TV footage or something else?
Great work on reviving this project and great work on reconstructing the trailer!
Who will ask the questions to Lucas:
"Will the original theatrical versions of the saga be included on the Blu-Ray releases and will they be remastered in HD?"
"Will the SE of the saga be new or the DVD versions?"
Also try to consider reconstrcuting extras using best video sources.