Originally posted by: StarWarsFan1976
Here's a few questions I do not think I have seen addressed or asked yet...if they have sorry:
1) Do we know if they used the 35mm or 70mm print to do this DVDs?
2) Is it a newly mixed audio or the 35mm or 70mm audio?
3) There gonna be a widescreen and Fullscreen set ?
4) They putting them out as a boxset ?
1) When they did the then-new '93 transfers, they looked for the best film elements to make the masters. They most likely used 35mm prints.
2) It will be the '93 mix that was especially done for the Definitive collection.
3) All of the OOT DVDs will be widescreen/letterboxed- even the ones included with the fullscreen SE discs.
4) There's one in a collector's tin in Canada from Best Buy, I don't know of any others yet.
Originally posted by: boris
People are going to start buying HD-TV's. And HD TV's will see DVD players with better inbuilt scaling (in fact I've seen some excellent scaling just on set top boxes)... which will up scale both anamorphic and non anamorphic PAL/NTSC to an HD signal. Or you can buy a progressive scan DVD player ... or you can rip it and resize it yourself on your home PC. So why on earth does it matter so much that the disc is non-anamorphic? You're nitpicking it to death. It's standard procedure, and there are movies released on DVD - that were made after Star Wars - that are not available in anamorphic form.
Boris, I understand what you're saying about the scaling, but that still doesn't change the fact that non-anamorphic DVDs still have like 33% less resolution than anamorphic ones, due to all of the space taken up by the black bars. Here's a few questions I do not think I have seen addressed or asked yet...if they have sorry:
1) Do we know if they used the 35mm or 70mm print to do this DVDs?
2) Is it a newly mixed audio or the 35mm or 70mm audio?
3) There gonna be a widescreen and Fullscreen set ?
4) They putting them out as a boxset ?
1) When they did the then-new '93 transfers, they looked for the best film elements to make the masters. They most likely used 35mm prints.
2) It will be the '93 mix that was especially done for the Definitive collection.
3) All of the OOT DVDs will be widescreen/letterboxed- even the ones included with the fullscreen SE discs.
4) There's one in a collector's tin in Canada from Best Buy, I don't know of any others yet.
Originally posted by: boris
People are going to start buying HD-TV's. And HD TV's will see DVD players with better inbuilt scaling (in fact I've seen some excellent scaling just on set top boxes)... which will up scale both anamorphic and non anamorphic PAL/NTSC to an HD signal. Or you can buy a progressive scan DVD player ... or you can rip it and resize it yourself on your home PC. So why on earth does it matter so much that the disc is non-anamorphic? You're nitpicking it to death. It's standard procedure, and there are movies released on DVD - that were made after Star Wars - that are not available in anamorphic form.