negative1 said:once again, check out the progress in the uprez to HD thread,
mentioned in my signature.. could be getting interesting soon..
later
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Haha, I remember a similar conversation taking place, where you told me to check the progress on the 35mm conversion that could be getting interesting. I am guessing since you have moved on to "uprezing" the GOUT, that that particular project is now longer making progess or remaining interesting. I would not wish this to be the case, but have always expected it would. At any rate, you can never really truely "uprez" something. When the detail simply isn't there, it simply isn't there. There is no way to add lost detail back into the picture, only to smooth over and blur the roughness of the low res picture. No thanks.
As for the VHS tapes of Star Wars being hard to find, NO! Of course they weren't! The VHS release received more than enough rereleasing. It has nothing to do with products wearing out, it has to do with $$$$. You can't possibly make a case for the mass rereleasing of SW on DVD. Sure, if they run out of the product, they should just throw more into production. The only reason they go through the trouble of repackaging it so it suddenly looks like something different and new, and will encourage those completists to rebuy what they already own just for the sake of a freaking change of cover art. It is sickening. Lots of studios do this with DVDs, double dipping galore, but in most cases, they at least add some new content to encourage people to rebuy.
Oh, and to defend the "One Last Time" slogan of the THX release, up until the 2006 release, that actually was the very last time the originals were released. So, they were being pretty honest about it, we didn't know the movies only had two years left before going to hell and ruining SW by splitting the fan base down the middle. Crazy stuff, but Lucas actually wanted that to be the last time. Ironically, since the DVDs are actually from the LDs of the "One Last Time" faces/THX set, that still sort of was the last time.