Originally posted by: ocpmovie
>>The X0 Project will continue! We will finish what we started and I have every reason to believe that it will be just as good - if not better than those $30 DVDs coming out in September.
I'm sure it will be better than Lucas' DVDs as you claim! After all, everyone knows that laserdisc is higher quality than DVD!
Only time will tell if what they put out will be any better. Resolution-wise - of course it will be better. What I'm saying is that there's no way LFL spent the time and money to clean up the film and resotre the original color like we are.
Originally posted by: ocpmovie
Conclusion: LID project wins. Laserdisc is dead. You claim to be utterly obsessed with quality, but I think you're obsessed with a dead format. If you were really obsessed with quality, you would be working from DVD quality sources, as you could have been doing two years ago when the OT came out on DVD. Some people ridiculed (and ridicule) me for doing this with my Classic Editions, but people seemed to like them. Some people even laughed at PAL sourced laserdiscs which are better quality than NTSC ones, but people seemed to like them. People want to see the OT in good quality - that's why they follow this project. So why on earth are you cleaning up, meticulously, frame by frame, removing dirt and splotches, from a fuzzy old laserdisc transfer? You could have cleaned up the 2004 DVDs instead and been done with this project a year ago.
Well, it's over now. Laserdisc is dead. And I'm glad. We can see the OT in pristine quality.
I am not picking a fight, simply trying to inject some truth and sanity into a thread that has gone, in my eyes, off the deep end.
That's too harsh. What I'm really trying to do is to get this forum to stop looking back at the past and start looking at its own future. When an HD master of Star Wars shows up on some TV channel in a few months, we're not gonna still be sourcing from laserdisc ...
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Let's take it from you then, shall we? Because we all know ANH CE was amazingly brilliant in all its quality and expert video editing!
Your attempt to restore the OOT using DVD footage is a prime example of why we didn't do the same thing. You just can't take laserdisc footage and splice it in with the higher-resolution DVD footage. The difference is night and day - especially when you mix the two in a single shot.
The initial purpose of the X0 Project was to create the best transfer possible from the laserdisc. We intend to finish what we started.
As for these new DVDs, will they provide a great starting point for any future projects? Of course they will! We're looking forward to working with them just as much as anyone else.