Our open letter to Disney and Lucasfilm — Page 5

Mocata said:

Fang Zei said:
Upconverting a laserdisc master of an entire movie trilogy all the way up to 4k just doesn’t sound like something anyone would do.

Yeah which is why they’d probably just shove it on there as a bonus again, and be like ‘hey kids look at how lame this old version was before we fixed it’

Well, that’s exactly what I meant, dumping it on to disc “as is,” an 8Gb 4:3 standard def file (okay 24 gigs for the entire trilogy although they could probably get that file size down using the latest compression technology) taking up only a small fraction of the available space on the latest disc formats.

What I meant by “upscaling” was just letting the player or display do that part. But like I said, since it’s only 1/27 the resolution of an actual 4k transfer, it would be very, very noticeable. People aren’t that gullible. As I said, George got away with dumping a laserdisc master to dvd in 2006 because the average person was still using a 4:3 tv to watch dvd and couldn’t tell the difference between a recycled transfer and a properly remastered one.

But what I meant is that if you don’t treat it like a properly remastered release, then you don’t have to remaster it. Like a TV special or an interview taken from the late 70s there’s no need to do any work since it’s a just a curio. It will be noticeable but nobody would care. LFL gets to say they are keeping the history alive, while furthering the same old original vision narrative.

Mocata said:

but nobody would care.

Except, yeah, quite a few people would care.

I agree with everything else you said, though.

robertelee said:

I’m really saddened by how little activity there was. I and a couple others were very proactive about trying to spread it, but is seems the world does not care.

There are more important things to worry about in this world, really.

It’s Disney that should be taking the initiative for the sake of film history.

Fang Zei said:

robertelee said:

I’m really saddened by how little activity there was. I and a couple others were very proactive about trying to spread it, but is seems the world does not care.

There are more important things to worry about in this world, really.

It’s Disney that should be taking the initiative for the sake of film history.

It’s been five years and still nothing. They’re too busy catering to the lightsaber-waving crowd by producing mediocre crap.

Fang Zei said:

robertelee said:

I’m really saddened by how little activity there was. I and a couple others were very proactive about trying to spread it, but is seems the world does not care.

There are more important things to worry about in this world, really.

Frevious trigger warning.

Slavicuss said:

Fang Zei said:

robertelee said:

I’m really saddened by how little activity there was. I and a couple others were very proactive about trying to spread it, but is seems the world does not care.

There are more important things to worry about in this world, really.

It’s Disney that should be taking the initiative for the sake of film history.

It’s been five years and still nothing. They’re too busy catering to the lightsaber-waving crowd by producing mediocre crap.

Oh, there’s no doubt.

If people were to stop buying Star Wars merch tomorrow, Lucasfilm would immediately look for other ways of making money and you-know-what would be right at the top of the list.

A 3D theatrical release of attack of the clones.

Possessed said:

A 3D theatrical release of attack of the clones.

Possessed said:

A 3D theatrical release of attack of the clones.

Nah…it will be 4D with Disney execs peeing on everyone and calling it rain.

digitalfreaknyc said:

Possessed said:

I wish I could talk to the admin at my work that way.

If anyone at my workplace called me a “dick” they would be fired and I’d own the company.

Your workplace has strange bylaws indeed…
You must sit around all day baiting people into calling you a dick, trying to trigger that “springing transfer of ownership” clause.
Guess that shows why you’re so seasoned at the enterprise…

Edit: oops didn’t realize I was so behind on this thread. Guess this was taken care of already last week…

Fang Zei said:

Slavicuss said:

It’s been five years and still nothing. They’re too busy catering to the lightsaber-waving crowd by producing mediocre crap.

Oh, there’s no doubt.

If people were to stop buying Star Wars merch tomorrow, Lucasfilm would immediately look for other ways of making money and you-know-what would be right at the top of the list.

Disney doesn’t acquire distribution rights of 1-6 until May of 2020 (and Fox will ALWAYS own 4, unless Disney can strike a deal with them). Even if they were planning on releasing the OOT, they would stay mum until late 2019 at the absolute earliest.

I have a feeling that after Episode 9 comes out, we will start to hear some rumblings, and by 2020 Disney will push marketing for an ultimate box set. If there was ever a time to release the OOT, it would be with a box set, forcing everyone who wants it to dish out $$$ and double down on any of the films they already own.

Frankly, I’m already assuming that they will instead give us yet another updated special edition, but we can pray to Vader that they show some damn respect and include the OOT as a bonus.

TV’s Frink said:

Fang Zei said:

robertelee said:

I’m really saddened by how little activity there was. I and a couple others were very proactive about trying to spread it, but is seems the world does not care.

There are more important things to worry about in this world, really.

Frevious trigger warning.

WHY DID THIS HAVE TO HAPPEN TO ME

towne32 said:

TV’s Frink said:

Fang Zei said:

robertelee said:

I’m really saddened by how little activity there was. I and a couple others were very proactive about trying to spread it, but is seems the world does not care.

There are more important things to worry about in this world, really.

Frevious trigger warning.

WHY DID THIS HAVE TO HAPPEN TO ME

Because you refused to punctuate a question with its eponymous mark.

Humby said:

Fang Zei said:

Slavicuss said:

It’s been five years and still nothing. They’re too busy catering to the lightsaber-waving crowd by producing mediocre crap.

Oh, there’s no doubt.

If people were to stop buying Star Wars merch tomorrow, Lucasfilm would immediately look for other ways of making money and you-know-what would be right at the top of the list.

Disney doesn’t acquire distribution rights of 1-6 until May of 2020 (and Fox will ALWAYS own 4, unless Disney can strike a deal with them). Even if they were planning on releasing the OOT, they would stay mum until late 2019 at the absolute earliest.

I have a feeling that after Episode 9 comes out, we will start to hear some rumblings, and by 2020 Disney will push marketing for an ultimate box set. If there was ever a time to release the OOT, it would be with a box set, forcing everyone who wants it to dish out $$$ and double down on any of the films they already own.

Frankly, I’m already assuming that they will instead give us yet another updated special edition, but we can pray to Vader that they show some damn respect and include the OOT as a bonus.

I suspect this is exactly what will happen.

have the box set look like this

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjbzJSL2KrUAhVIWSYKHT_QBtUQjRwIBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ronlim.com%2Fpersonal.html&psig=AFQjCNF9irOdbuNqbO-_bFOXRNdaai4_kQ&ust=1496888965782451

An intrepid Belgian student named Harmy

LOL

Hahaha wat