Wookie Groomer said:
I scanned through the EP-V release and am quite pleased with the color accuracy. However, the digital artifacts from the low bitrate used to squeeze it onto a DVD9 severaly cripples this otherwise excellent release. The running length at DVD9 bitrates would have been better at 720p resulting in a clean artifact free presentation. Is there anything that can be done to share the higher bitrate edtition with those of us with larger HD displays? I can help with bandwidth if that's the problem.

well hopefully it will start to appear this weekend. unfortunately it doesn't matter what resolution or bitrate is used because the artefacts are still there as they are on the original lossless avi. Its actually video noise which is a by-product of the colour correction i had to do to remove the horrible cyan colour cast. It was something that was totally unavoidable but i would prefer the artefacts over the horrible 2004 colours any day. here's a sample of the 14gb x264 version. you can see the artefacts are still present

http://rapidshare.com/files/191008312/esb_hd_14gb_sample.ts

As for the rest of the saga, ESB:R is taking up hell of a lot of time, not to mention hard drive space so god knows when they'll be released. I'm not too sure about AOTC at the moment. I use to have the bootleg cinema filmed (the centropy version) and the bootleg Telecine that i could have used to recreate the theatrical version but they have long since gone and unless anyone still has copies of these recreating the Theatrical version will be impossible. If anyone does have a copy , or knows someone who has them, i would be eternally grateful if a copy became available so i can finish this saga.