Originally posted by: Go-Mer-Tonic
I just remember the day I got my laserdiscs of the O-OT, thinking that it would never get any better than that.
Now I'm hearing people say it's bad to the point of being torturous.
It just seems to me that to a certain extent, Lucas isn't the only one who is pretending the O-OT doesn't exist anymore.
Time has moved on. Standards in home video technology have drastically improved. Standards in film restauration have drastically improved. You can now get DVD´s for under ten bucks which have far better picture and sound quality than most Laserdiscs, which were VERY expensive back then, not to mention the playback equipment. This is the minimun standard that a DVD from a major studio has to achieve. It is fairly easy to achieve, unless you are a very very small studio with hardly any money. This release is a little bit better than of bootlegging quality. While may be state of the art in 1993 (I have some Laserdiscs which look much better than these), now it´s just plain ridicolous. Especially if you compare this to other releases coming from other studios. The picture was HEAVILY DVNR'ed while making the transfer. You have heavy ghosting and all other totally undesirable effects in the transfer, which is TOTALLY, and I really mean TOTALLY substandard nowadays.
But how many times do we have to say that? How many threads with detailed descriptions and explanations do you need to get this into your bonehead? Either you just ignore our points we are making, repeating and repeating yourself, and are practically wasting our time, or you have a very bad short term memory and you do not re-read threads you are posting in.
To me the point of this September release is so I don't have to watch them on stretched out VHS tapes, or Laserdiscs you have to flip a couple of times for each movie.
To me this is better than it was.
I just remember the day I got my laserdiscs of the O-OT, thinking that it would never get any better than that.
Now I'm hearing people say it's bad to the point of being torturous.
It just seems to me that to a certain extent, Lucas isn't the only one who is pretending the O-OT doesn't exist anymore.
Time has moved on. Standards in home video technology have drastically improved. Standards in film restauration have drastically improved. You can now get DVD´s for under ten bucks which have far better picture and sound quality than most Laserdiscs, which were VERY expensive back then, not to mention the playback equipment. This is the minimun standard that a DVD from a major studio has to achieve. It is fairly easy to achieve, unless you are a very very small studio with hardly any money. This release is a little bit better than of bootlegging quality. While may be state of the art in 1993 (I have some Laserdiscs which look much better than these), now it´s just plain ridicolous. Especially if you compare this to other releases coming from other studios. The picture was HEAVILY DVNR'ed while making the transfer. You have heavy ghosting and all other totally undesirable effects in the transfer, which is TOTALLY, and I really mean TOTALLY substandard nowadays.
But how many times do we have to say that? How many threads with detailed descriptions and explanations do you need to get this into your bonehead? Either you just ignore our points we are making, repeating and repeating yourself, and are practically wasting our time, or you have a very bad short term memory and you do not re-read threads you are posting in.
To me the point of this September release is so I don't have to watch them on stretched out VHS tapes, or Laserdiscs you have to flip a couple of times for each movie.
To me this is better than it was.
No, it´s worse, dude. I live in a PAL country. We use our own television system with 100 lines more resolution. The PAL Laserdiscs I own were mastered from a true PAL source, yielding 100 lines more resolution than the NTSC Laserdiscs. The GOUT release however, even the PAL release, was UPSTRETCHED from the NTSC master. Do you know how horrible that looks? Especially on my 16:9 CRT television?
Sorry, but you don´t have a fucking idea. You are one of those guys, which have just a basic premise ("defend Lucas!") and are building ridiculous arguments up, playing ignorant where important arguments have been issued, and repeating the same preconcieved shit over and over again when you are out of arguments. You are much more often on these forums than I am. You most certainly have read these information I gave you right now at least multiple times. Yet, it did not sink into your brain.
Having an opposite view here can be quite healthy. But not if you deliberately choose to filter out information which does not fit into your world view.