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I’m very bad at looking stuff up in the forums, can’t find anything about the HD releases floating around. I recently got all episodes in full-HD at PAL speed, recorded from the BBC by someone. The sound on ANH was pretty crappy, with a lot of hiss on 3POs dialogue and a few blips. Can anyone elaborate of the different versions, there surely must have been NTSC broadcasts aswell.

I still am an OT-buff though, it hurts me a bit to be watching the SE verions volutarily, but man there’s so much detail! I noticed several continuity errors I had never seen before.

That's no moon. It's a LaserDisc.

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Oh, dear Lord!  I nearly fell out of my chair!  I have a bizarro clone!

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Grinder said:

I'm very bad at looking stuff up in the forums, can't find anything about the HD releases floating around. I recently got all episodes in full-HD at PAL speed, recorded from the BBC by someone. The sound on ANH was pretty crappy, with a lot of hiss on 3POs dialogue and a few blips. Can anyone elaborate of the different versions, there surely must have been NTSC broadcasts aswell.

I still am an OT-buff though, it hurts me a bit to be watching the SE verions volutarily, but man there's so much detail! I noticed several continuity errors I had never seen before.

Check out Adywan's AVCHD releases.  For ANH, he color-corrected the entire movie (similar to his Revisited color correction), made Han shoot first, and removed the Jabba scene.  Other than that, it's the 2004 SE.

For Empire, he color-corrected the entire movie again, and restored everything to its 1997 SE state (original Emperor instead of McDiarmid, Boba Fett's original voice, Luke screams when he falls, etc.) - but I don't know if he reverted things that were continuity fixes (like Han's "vest," or fixed rank insignia).

And both of those are in 1080p AVCHD - which means you burn the image to a dual-layer DVD, and it plays in Blu-Ray players and a PS3 (not Xbox 360, since any player will recognize it as a Blu-Ray disc, since that's how it's authored).

He's not doing ROTJ until he finishes ESB Revisited (which will be released in standard-def and 720p AVCHD, by the way, but since ANH Revisited was all done in SD that won't get any better than the current DVD-9, which is still fantastic), but I believe his plans for that are to revert it to the 1997 SE the same way he did with Empire.

I don't know if he has plans for the prequels in HD.

And then there's Wookie Gromer's HD releases, which he's revamping with color-correction soon if I recall.

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Haha! Don't worry Gaff, you are much prettier than she is... err... at least Carrie Fisher is much more attractive than Rowan Atkinson.

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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As trivial pursuit champion you surely know that Rowan Atkinson acted as a stunt-double for Leia in the swing to freedom scene. For the SE this clearly visible goof was fixed, and Carrie's face was artificially patched into the scene.

That's no moon. It's a LaserDisc.

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Thanks for the heads up ChainsawAsh. Though I'm really NOT in favour of the whole fan-edit business, Adywan seems to have done a good job. Leaving changes to a minimum. I mean, nobody wants to see the Jabba scene ever again, and the color correction looks good from what I've seen. Still, I was talking about the not-tampered-with HD broadcasts. Do you know what the source was?

That's no moon. It's a LaserDisc.

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Adywan has done more work than just SW:R. His AVCHD releases are not fan edits, but actual HD versions of the 04 SE. As Ash was explaining, ANH and ESB have been color corrected, ANH has had Jabba removed and Greedo shooting first, in an attempt to make it closer to the originals, but other than that, it is the SE. ESB has been modified to be closer to the 1997 SE. ROTJ is the unchanged DVD version, but from the HD broadcast.

So all changes made to these have been in the interest of restoring them to previous official versions of the films. Absolutely nothing like SW:R, which is a fanedit.

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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Well that just depends on the way you define "fan edit". But as I said, AFAICT he's done a nice job. Definitely gonna check em out. I'm just curious what's available. Are we still allowed to discuss download loacations here?

That's no moon. It's a LaserDisc.

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Grinder said:

Thanks for the heads up ChainsawAsh. Though I'm really NOT in favour of the whole fan-edit business, Adywan seems to have done a good job. Leaving changes to a minimum. I mean, nobody wants to see the Jabba scene ever again, and the color correction looks good from what I've seen. Still, I was talking about the not-tampered-with HD broadcasts. Do you know what the source was?

 

I think his source was the 16gb german broadcasts, which are the highest quality, but I have no idea where to get them. I think he originally got them of newsgroups.