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Thanks very much for the heads up peeps. I’m never going to watch this.

SilverWook said:

Proof of non-ticket purchase for Episode 9 will be required at a future date. See you in 2019! 😉

Lol. See you in 2019 !

Ive just watched TLJ on dvd today. I didn’t see it in the theater (because reasons). So today was the first time I saw it.

I have very mixed feelings about it. But with the end of the skywalkers episode 9 has come early for me.

I really don’t care what happens to the crew of the falcon enough to actually see an episode 9.

I’m out.

Don’t know if I’m the first to spot this or not. Apologies if I’m not.

https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/17/01/01/1942213/lucasfilm-creates-a-4k-ultra-hd-restoration-of-the-original-star-wars?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+(Slashdot)

Mod Edit: the above information is taken from the ‘Gareth Edwards: The Last Detail’ 2016 article from 'Little White Lies…
 

Interviewer: “When you went back and watched the original films did you take copious notes?”

Gareth Edwards: “On day one, we were in Lucasfilm in San Francisco with Industrial Light and Magic and John Knoll, our supervisor, he said that they’ve got a brand new 4K restoration print of A New Hope – it had literally just been finished. He suggested we sit and watch it. Obviously, I was up for that. Me, the writer, lots of the story people and John all sat down, we all had our little notepads, we were all ready for this. I’ll add that I’ve seen A New Hope hundreds of times. So I was sat there, ready to take notes and really delve under the surface of the film. You have the Fox fanfare, then scrolling text with ‘A long time ago…’, and then the main music begins. Next thing we knew it had ended, and we looked around to one another and just thought – shit, we didn’t take any notes. You can’t watch it without getting carried away. It’s really hard to get into an analytical filmmaker headspace with this film. It just turns you into a child.”

‘Gareth Edwards Says a 4K Restoration of Star Wars Exists, But Which Version Is It?’ - 2016 article at Gizmodo

‘Rogue One Director Gareth Edwards Says There’s a 4K Restoration of ‘A New Hope’’ - 2016 article at IndieWire

‘Gareth Edwards Says Lucasfilm Has a 4K Restoration of the Original ‘Star Wars’, But When Will We See It?’ - 2016 article at SlashFilm

TV’s Frink said:

laserdisc said:

So here I am in the spoiler thread, without having seen the movie. Why? I’ve decided I’m not going to watch it at all, ever. Or any spin off. I think I’m just “getting too old for this sort of thing.” I saw ANH in the cinema in 1977. I hope the movie is a success though. I will be watching the main releases. I just hope these spin offs don’t dilute the main movies for folk.

May I ask how old you are? I’m 43 and I really enjoyed it. It didn’t dilute anything, if anything it enhanced the OT.

I’m 47. But jaded, obviously! I know somebody in real life who enjoyed it too, so maybe I’ll watch it on blu ray. We’ll see…

So here I am in the spoiler thread, without having seen the movie. Why? I’ve decided I’m not going to watch it at all, ever. Or any spin off. I think I’m just “getting too old for this sort of thing.” I saw ANH in the cinema in 1977. I hope the movie is a success though. I will be watching the main releases. I just hope these spin offs don’t dilute the main movies for folk.

I remember the cinema seats and being shocked when Luke disparaged the millennium falcon when he first saw it. I was only 7.

alexp120 said:

ScruffyNerfHerder said:

bishabosha said:

At the end of the training remote session with Luke talking to Ben, what are the green ovals in the top right with white scribbled lines for?, in the last sentance or so before you cut to the Death Star board room

I think those are just reel change markers. It’s something we no longer see in digital projection, or on home video, but would definitely be present in 1977. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue_mark for more info.

Hope that helps. 😃

Or you can watch this scene from TV’s “Columbo” …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_ol8PbN_94(at 50:01)

…when the detective gets a crash course in reel changes. This is where I learned what that bright colored oval flashes were. 😃

Woa. That brought me out of lurking. That’s exactly where I learned it too.

Today I watched rotj definitive collection laserdisc on my hldx9. It’s currently hooked up to a very old crt tv though.

I couldn’t enjoy it because of the lack of detail which Harmy has now spoiled us with.

I paid a lot for it, so I’m not about to get rid of it.

I just wondered if anybody uses laserdisc anymore and has used it with e.g. an upscaler on a hdtv. How would it hold up to harmy’s efforts?

When the prequel ghosts showed up at the end of rotj. That was my moment.

When you say that you wouldnt be able to accept anyone else playing han,luke,leia can i remind you that youre probably like me: OLD

Do you think Disney cares about that demographic? Seriously? Its nothing too do with us anymore. It's basically a reboot for the next generation of kids. We've been told goodbye as an audience.

10 print "It's going to be great"

20 pause 2

30 goto 10

Thats my attitude too, the only way we can be worse off is if disney close down this site. Other than that theres a slim hope oot will be restored so we're better off. Who cares about ep7 after rhe prequels.

All I can say is : THANKS

http://the1709blog.blogspot.com/2012/04/is-titanic-3-d-new-work.html

Nobody ever suspects jabberjaw!

Yes, I  went to the wedding and in fact now she has some kids. I've known her since I was 16, and so one day I'll probably get one of her kids a 16th birhday present and write a country & western song about it!

Heh! Now I've got a scooby avatar. Thanks!

Here's another tale of woe:

I woke up really groggy on a birthday , saw a birthday card and became really depressed saying 'Oh no.. I'm 30 today' then as I became less groggy I realised I was 34.

^Exactly!! Rock on!

No you misunderstand .. It's not a thread for funny stories, just brief tales of woe ! But tales not looking for sympathy, resolution, or a shrink, just a shrug of the shoulders , a laugh or "whaddya goin to do?". But shouting "get out of my head" was funny.

I think it was Oscar Wilde who once said "There is nothing more cheerful than listening to a tale of woe at which the listener is permitted to laugh"

So as we could all do with some cheering up from time to time, I'll kick off the tales of woe while giving you permission to laugh with this:

I was invited to the wedding of the girl I always secretly wanted to marry.

There's something very similar between this cantina pre production scene

Tatooine Cantina:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcOeKwvNJ0w

and the prequels , but i can't put my finger on the exact reasons.

Can anyone help me analyse this? Why does this video have a very similar feeling to the prequels?

doubleofive said:

Harmy is working from my list and has contributed many things to it. I wouldn't worry about him missing something.

Now i'm so excited i don't know whether to spit or go dance!

Is there a list of how many SE changes that Harmy has corrected? 005 seems to have the defintive list of actual changes here

http://picasaweb.google.com/doubleofive/StarWarsSpecialEditionChangesHD

The only reason I ask is that Harmy has said he'd prefer not to have to do a v3.0, so I'm wondering if there's a checklist of 005 items that have been corrected.

Currently I can only subscribe to a thread and get email alerts , but as the mobile phone generation likes to use RSS feeds it would be nice to have an RSS feed which gave e.g. the last 20 comments spread over all the threads on every forum. This would also increase your pageviews for ads because I'm sure there are comments people would view if only they knew they had been posted.

I don't own a ps3 but apparently (according to a website i just came across) it has an upscaler hidden in it's configuration settings somewhere. Has anyone checked out the results this gives? I assume the DVDO EDGE will kick it's **s. But while we're waiting for some screenshot and/or clips from the DVDO EDGE , it would be interesting to see the results the PS3 gives.