Save Star Wars Dot Com — Page 28

doubleofive said:

 

ChainsawAsh said:

However, if you don't have a TV larger than 30", you probably won't notice a difference in picture quality, and if you're using your TV's speakers - or a receiver that doesn't support multichannel PCM or DTS-HD/Dolby TrueHD - you definitely won't notice a difference in sound quality.

I have a 32" LCD and my receiver doesn't have DTS-HD, and I can tell you that it looks and sounds 100% better than DVD.

I have HDMI at 720p connected to the TV and DTS+2.0 going analog out to the receiver, and the quality is astronomical. The fact that I could get a new TV with higher resolution and a receiver with pure digital sound is something I look forward to a great deal.

 

Oh, don't get me wrong, many people can tell the difference between HD and SD at smaller sizes, myself included (though I'd wager I can't tell 720p and 1080p apart at anything larger than about 36-42").  I'm speaking from personal experience with friends who insist that a 1080p Blu-Ray looks exactly the same as their compressed DVD-5 copy of a dual-layer disc they copied from the library.

TV's Frink said:

You're trying to trick me into getting banned by posting the sad robot walking gif.  Won't work.

 that wasn't my intention

I know, I was kidding.

I wonder what would happen if we started a campaign to send back the DVDs should the Blu-Rays turn out to be more of the same only in HD?

A cover letter could state that they are essentially the latest generation of the same flawed software.

Someone would get a paid to handle the suspicious looking parcels (it's not a job for life but it beats being the kid with the drum).

It's not as if there will be much in the way of resale value in the 2004 sets (not even for charity shops, if the campaign was strong enough the over zealous might even go to charity shops and get extra copies of the 2004 sets to send back in the name of their spouses or aupairs).

TV's Frink said:

I know, I was kidding.

 Oh, i'm an idiot.

Something you'll discover soon, if you haven't already, is that very, VERY few of TV's posts should be taken seriously.  It's simpler to assume he's joking all the time.

It's true...my user title used to say something to that effect.

I've never seen Frink use all caps and swear bfore

WELL YOU BETTER FUCKING PAY ATTENTION!!!

(kidding)

Ok, back to the topic at hand.

Sure, what were we talking about?

Save Star Wars Dot Com.

Great website.  I wonder what new tricks zombie has up his sleeve?

Well, I hear he has a new avatar...

He's Hip....He's Cool....He's Sixty-Five...& He Kicks Ass!!

J

^Best laugh of the weekend!

nice! Frink Solo!   ;)

via: http://starwarsaficionado.blogspot.com/

Sounds like some SW people are significantly selling off their SW stuff:

Bunch more great pics and strange stuff, with very high prices!

Thats very cool. I have to wonder who out there cares enough about this to want to pay up to $50,000 for it though. I feel like this is something that would better be served through a library or museum purchase but I doubt any would be interested in binders full of camera schedules and test memos.

I guarentee that a big time Star Wars fanantic will pay the money to own these

Universal just announced American Graffiti for a blu-ray release in May and, unsurprisingly, it's gonna be the Special Edition (if not an extra-special one with even more changes). I'm not the least bit surprised by this, but it once again raises some questions in my mind.

We all know what the situation is with Star Wars, but what kind of control does Lucas have over THX-1138 and Graffiti? If Universal wanted to include the original version of Graffiti, would there be anything Lucas could do to stop them?

It depends on what kind of contract he has. Usually in cases like these, it's about making your star client (i.e. George Lucas) happy. Because if you piss him off, he isn't likely to make future investments into the company, and you don't want a respected filmmaker like him badmouthing you. He also might have friends and allies in the company who make sure things go his way. On the other hand, if the audience demand for a certain product outweighs the benefits of placating the star filmmaker; sadly, few know or care about the original version of Graffiti. The changes are so small anyway that a lot of people may see it as nitpicking.

see you auntie said:

http://www.cracked.com/article_19043_6-classic-series-you-didnt-know-were-made-up-fly.html

Obviously not everyone believes Lucas' revisionism. Small Zombie/Kaminski reference included.

 

 You know, I never really thought I'd actually have an impact on the development of Star Wars historiography but I'm seeing a lot of this kind of stuff in response to the book. It get's cited in the weirdest places. I just bought the BFI "Classic Films" series book on Star Wars and sure enough in the first chapter, "according to Michael Kaminski, 'blah blah blah...." And it turns out that was before the book got legitimately published, since it cites the website from 2008. Weird.