Well i think its pretty safe to say we are never going to see this or even probably hear from -1 again. I had kept quiet about what was happening with this project because it looked like it was a dead thread. But i don't think it is fair for him to keep stringing people along any more
I was involved in this as one point and was in contact with -1 to see how the best way we could get this done. I was going to help out with the colour correction and restoration once the transfer was done. I had access to -1's site and was in regular contact with him with ideas about how to get this done. Then he announced some good news about the transfer and then disappeared. Well he had been in talks with a person who some may know was doing a star wars restoration, had a site all about this restoration, but was never going to share the project with anyone but a select few and even that would only ever have been a screening. I became concerned that if this person was to become involved and would be the one that has the reels for the 4k scanning that they may want to solely use this for their own project for which would never see the light of day. I was assured by -1 that this would not be the case as he had spoken with him about this already. Now personally i have many doubts that this person was ever involved as i was unable to have any contact with him and every bit of information was only coming from -1
Suddenly, and without any warning or contact from -1, my account over at his site was no longer accessible and he ignored any contact i tried to make about this project. If progress about the transfer had been made i was now out of the loop and my services were obviously no longer required. Now his website domain is dead
Now i see it as one of 4 things happened:
1 - the transfer did go ahead on the understanding that it was to be kept within a select few and never will see the light of day
or
2 - -1 had blown so much smoke up peoples asses about how he was definitely going to get this done and bigged himself up so much when people challenged him about this that when he finally realised that he could not get a decent transfer done because nowhere that did digital scanning would touch it with a barge pole he didn't have the guts to come on here and admit he was wrong
or
3 - he was stupid enough to take it to a professional movie transfer house, got reported to Lucasfilm and got slapped with a lawsuit and is now sharing a small prison cell with a 7ft hairy biker and is now his bitch
4 - New that this could never possibly have been done and was hoping that everyone here would send him loads of money to pay for the transfer and then just disappear leaving everyone high and dry
I actually think that its #2. I fully understand the reasons behind the person who was doing the star wars project not wanting to release it because of who he was and his professional ties, so i was very surprised when -1 said he was to become involved and that he was fine with it being released for everyone to enjoy. Was he ever really involved? I guess we will never know.
This guy clearly did not know what he was doing. he was also someone who would never admit when he was wrong. This is the guy who said that newsgroups are way too slow compared to torrents. even when he was proved wrong he still claimed that he knew what he was talking about because he'd been programming computers since the 80's (or something like that) and that we were al wrong and didn't know what we were talking about. then he made a torrent of my EP 4 Revisited DVD, but unpacked the ISO using winrar and caused a couple of the video files to become corrupt. He failed to take any responsibility for this and said that he got it direct from the usenet upload i made, therefore saying the corruption was on the original and my fault. Again, when it was clearly pointed out to him that it was his fault because everyone that got it from usenet and didn't unpack the ISO had no problems whatsoever with it, he still never claimed full responsibility and the torrent was just deleted. Luckily i was able to provide a fix for all the people who had spent days downloading the torrent.
I have ran across people like this all throughout my life, but this was one occasion i was preying i would be proved wrong. sadly another time waster getting peoples hopes up and failing to deliver anything
