adywan said:
Don't believe everything you have heard about them completely re-compositing the Hoth battle. That is rubbish. I proved this when i was starting the Hoth battle for ESB:R. Even in the SE documentaries when they mention they recomposited the cockpits to remove the transparency was just lies. All they did was lower the black level as the cockpits are all still transparent. There are one or two very minor differences in the battle and that's it
I did mention in the first post that this would not be a 100% authentic recreation as this is not what i was aiming for.
And you won't watch ANH:R just because it's in SD? So you only watch stuff that's in HD then? Limiting yourself a bit there.
No, no, no, not won't watch, I did watch it and I loved some aspects of it, what I'm saying is that when I want to watch STAR WARS and I often do, ANH:R is not the version I go for and there are other reasons for this than it's not being HD; I like the originals and even though you've done an awesome job on ANH:R it is just very much not the original. And I really like HD so when I want to watch STAR WARS it's either the GOUT or your brilliant AVCHD as it is HD and also has the worst SE flaws removed so it's as close to the original an HD version is gonna get (or has got so far). Thanks a million for that. If this was HD it would definitely become my prefered version of TESB but if not I'll just stick to the AVCHD or perhaps use this one for a partial despecialisation of the AVCHD just for my viewing (stuff like the orig. Wampa scene or that added window with elevator with f*cked up continuity...)
Now to the SE vs. OT Hoth battle. I did a lot of comparisons back when I got my 1st OOT VHS and was disapointed that all those fx scenes I admired on my SE VHS frame by frame as a kid, thinking how awesome the fx were for the time they were done in, were probably digitally tweaked:
The mate lines are gone in SE, motion blur is added, the speeder in the background is replaced.
The same here, plus here the laser blast is apparently enhanced.