Originally posted by: CO
Zombie, I do agree with ya that HD-DVD technology will get better through the years, but you have to admit the OT SE movies are probably one of the greatest transfers on the market for Standards DVD's. I know the lightsabers are f'd up, and the ANH score is backwards in some places, but overall the movies look really awesome on a widescreen HDTV, and if Lucas were able to duplicate this with the OOT movies, I would be very content with these, and sure I would buy them when a SW HD-DVD hit the market, but I wouldn't be as impatient as I am now cause all we really have is laserdisk transfers.
Zombie, I do agree with ya that HD-DVD technology will get better through the years, but you have to admit the OT SE movies are probably one of the greatest transfers on the market for Standards DVD's. I know the lightsabers are f'd up, and the ANH score is backwards in some places, but overall the movies look really awesome on a widescreen HDTV, and if Lucas were able to duplicate this with the OOT movies, I would be very content with these, and sure I would buy them when a SW HD-DVD hit the market, but I wouldn't be as impatient as I am now cause all we really have is laserdisk transfers.
True--but in 1995 we would have been saying the same thing about the VHS release of the OOT. It looked good, and "we were happy to it." Then we discovered how much better the film could look on DVD and suddenly that VHS looked like shit. After viewing some HD caps of ANH and then comparing them to the DVD caps from the 2004 SE, the same thing happens--the 2004 SE, one of the best examples of the DVD format, suddenly looks soft and undetailed. Seriously. It'll happen with us again, eventually, once HD becomes a standard. But of course, like when we watch VHS today, after about five minutes your eye and mind adjusts and you get wrapped up in the story.