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calamari
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THE STAR WARS SAGA - 1080P AVCHD DVD-9 for PS3 & Blu-Ray players - Episodes 1, 4 & 5 available now
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Date created
27-Sep-2008, 1:40 AM

Finally finished downloading this.  A big thanks to everyone uploading and seeding the torrent! :)  My dual layer DVD's have not arrived yet, so I've only been able to watch about half of it (they were just about to rough up the scanning crew when it quit playing).

My projector/viewing specs are above, so I won't reiterate that stuff..Here are my observations, but please note in advance that they are all very minor:

Picture quality was better than I expected.  The colors really do look nice, excellent work there, thanks!  The only time I thought it looked weird was when the red light was shining on Leia (when she is hiding and about to get stunned).. the red light had an unnatural glow to it.  But maybe it is supposed to look that way, I dunno.  Very minor.  Also, I am not 100% sure, but it seemed like "black" wasn't quite as black as it could have been, but if so, it wasn't off by much.

In the brighter scenes, the compression artifacts and static pixels are more noticeable, not much that can be done about this, of course.  The first time I saw any problems was in the white corridor smoke.  Then, when the droids were first on Tatooine.  There were probably more, but I was drawn into the movie, so again, minor.

One problem that seemed to persist throughout the movie was an occasional video stutter.  I had the player set to 24 fps mode, which the projector recognized.  Is the video also at that rate, or is it perhaps 25 fps (or maybe converted from 25 fps)? 

I'm curious.. how hard would it be to blend the subtitles in so that they don't have hard edges?  I could see the edges, as well as the thin black outline around them.  I should put in my GOUT disc and see what they look like on it, I can't remember :(.  The "Han shoots first" scenes blended right in, very nicely done.

Thanks again for doing this.  Definitely one to get if you have HD!   I enjoyed watching it (well, except for the Alderaan explosion ring, but that isn't your fault!). :)