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RETURN OF THE JEDI 1983 THEATRICAL VERSION RECONSTRUCTION DVD by Harmy (MKV, NTSC DVD5 AND PAL DVD9 AVAILABLE) — Page 15

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Best of both?

I assume that means proper running speed but without the pulldown?

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Yeah, exactly, without the pulldown and without the 20% loss of resolution. Cuz NTSC sux...

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Could someone PM the extraction password for the MKV?

Thanks.

**Have it now.**

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Harmy said:

Yeah, exactly, without the pulldown and without the 20% loss of resolution. Cuz NTSC sux...

Yea it does LOL, PAL speedup SUX!

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Being from a PAL country, I'm used to the speedup, so for me NTSC sux way more but yeah, PAL and NTSC both suck in their own ways. VIVA LA HD!!!

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Good news everyone!!! I've just finished the PAL DVD9 and will be uploading tonight.

There is one problem though; I have nowhere to test it right now. I did make an ISO and tested it in a virtual DVD ROM and everything works fine but I don't have any physical blank DVD9s nor a standalone player to test it on, so I'm gonna need some labrats to download and test it for me ;-) Any volunteers?

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Thanks Brah ;-) I was at school the whole day, so I just started uploading now. It should be done in a few hours.

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You'll have to initiate me to usenet and all that jazz though. I have been waiting for something like this to ask someone.

Ignorant of many things, but still a real bro.

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I don't use usenet but I'll gladly explain what you'll need to know :-)

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Watched and loved this - will now be my default viewing version. Thanks so much for your work on this Harmy!

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This sounds like a fantastic project.  I'd love to take a look at the mkv if you could shoot me a pm as to where I can find it!

I've got some nicely preferred version of ANH and ESB, but ROTJ has been sorely lacking.  This sounds like it's the cure!

O.T. or No T., baby!

ANH:R Cover Art

ESB:R Cover Art

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Still downloading. Any final menu and extra features screenshots btw?

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I'm gonna keep that a surprise. Don't expect anything ground-breaking though. I will say though, that there is an easter egg hidden somewhere in the menu :-)

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Just finished burning and preliminary testing. Apparently it's running despite many errors during recording. Let's see how this baby handles a full sreening.

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Video bugged after the credits but did fine after skipping the chapter. Detected what think it's a remaining SE CGI bit. At 00.16:20 you can see some kind of animated sand toad eating a bug. Don't remember seeing it in the originals, but then again I haven't watched ROTJ  in a long time.

Ignorant of many things, but still a real bro.

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Oh, what do you mean after the credits? Like the end credits or the begining logos?

That toad was always there.

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And thanks for testing this thoroughly. What do you think about the menus?

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I meant the scrolling intro (can't remember the exact name). But then again it might have been due to the bugged burning process.

Currently I'm about halfway through it. Will watch the rest tomorrow. So far I'm not too sure about the colour correction. Jabba's palace seems a bit too bright for my taste (but I'm used to my old videotape recordings, so my opinion is a bit biased). There's also some ugly colouring in the "soon you'll learn to appreciate me" shot; did you use the GOUT for that one? It looks a bit off. I do however love the subtitle font, as it is pretty close of the original burned-ins.

As for the menus, I think they could've used a bit more work. I was scared out of my ass when the main theme blew all out of the sudden with no previous warning. Perhaps a little fade in could've eased it out. That, or simply picking another tune.What I really don't like, however, is the menu font. It just looks too bland and doesn't match the background at all. I do like the chapter selection menu however. Seems pretty tight.

Oh, and you could've hidden the "secret" a bit better. A cute extra though.

Ignorant of many things, but still a real bro.

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Thanks. Yeah, I warned you not to expect anything great from the menu. I found the work on it quite boring, so I din't really give it all the attention it may have needed. It serves it's purpose though.

As to the "soon you will learn to appreciate me" shot, somebody already pointed it out and yeah, it seems that something's gone wrong in the encoding when adding the subtitle, cuz it's got more compression artefacts, but I don't think it's anything gruesome.