Originally posted by: Rikter

Originally posted by: caligulathegod
I have tons of friends that are old-school Star Wars fans that aren't going to go out and buy a special DVD player for one DVD. I deconstruct and completely reauthor PAL movies and menus from scratch when I do it. It's not hard to make new buttons work and rehide the easter egg. All the (impressive) hard work was done by Jambe.

It's not a special DVD player. Most cheapies at Wal-Mart play PAL and start at $30

It's a special DVD player in that they would have to buy an additional player just to play this one disc. You might do that, and I might do that (I even bought the old Apex AD 600A, back in the day, to play PAL), but most people who don't collect foreign DVDs won't.

I have about 3 or 4 friends whom I'd like to give a copy of this disc, but I can't obligate them to have to shell out even $30 for a new player for one disc. Nor are they going to replace their perfectly good players with a $30 one. Heck, my primary player is a 400 disc changer. If my additional"PAL/NTSC" player wasn't also a recorder, I sure wouldn't replace my primary player with a $30 Wal-Mart cheapie.

Besides, isn't it an odd thing to admonish in a forum about fan edits?

I'm just so impressed with Jambe's work (as I was with OCP's), that I want to share it with my closest Star Wars fanatic friends without putting them out too much.

To the others:The HD/BR thing is pretty irrelevant. Not everyone jumps on the newest technology right away. Even the new digital TV requirement is only going to affect those with rabbit ears on their TV. Anyone with cable will just have to upgrade their service to use the digital box. It's not going to force everybody to buy new HDTVs or even digital TVs. Our TVs aren't suddenly going to be obsolete.