Star Wars coming to Blu Ray (UPDATE: August 30 2011, No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!) — Page 145

Interesting. Is it possible to rip the sound from these?

If only...drool.

A very strange selection of character images for the disc art (click to view full size)

Hopefully this is just some fan made rubbish that Amazon have used, but i have a bad feeling it is real.

generalfrevious said:

I bet a hundred dollars that it is real. It's precisely what LFL would release nowadays. Did you expect it to be good?

Yeh, they're real:( You can tell by the fact that each disc has had the same style of artistic treatment done to them as is on the separate trilogy box sets. It must've taken the art department al of 10 minutes to create those.  Another set that has been created by the cheapest possible means to make the highest possible profit. It's not looking too good for the transfers of the OTSE. Same old crappy transfers we already have from the HDTV sources. but with even worse additions.

Looks like a pile of crap.

It's good they have that little booklet so you won't forget the real main characters.

kenkraly2007 said:

Adywan 1st off we don't know if the same transfers for SE OT that where on dvd will be used for the blu-ray box set. Why do you keep saying that? DVD's are 480p and Blu-Ray is 1080p ok.  And the encodes for DVD's are MPEG 2 blu-rays are using VC-1 or AVC HD MPEG 4. We won't know what the transfers will look until we see screen captures on the different blu-ray sites like digital bits , blu-ray.com etc.

I think we can get a good guess from the trailer. OK.

But maybe ur write, maibee the colars will be fixed

Your ignorance is starting to get on my nerves.

1) Yes, we don't know for sure that it will be the same transfer but from all the information we have it just seems more than likely.

2) What transfer it is has absolutely nothing to do with the capabilities of DVD or Blu-Ray. The transfers for DVD were done in 1080p and then downscaled to 480p for the DVD, so they can be used for Blu-Ray. But they were done poorly, so they look like shit in 1080p VC-1 just like they did in 480p Mpeg2.

Cos it smells nice here.

Because we miss him when he's not here.

kenkraly2007 said:

I'm trying not argue with some fans on the issue about the transfers of the OT SE for blu-ray. All I am saying is wait until the final product comes out in September then judge for yourself's. 

I'm not giving George the benefit of the doubt. 2004 was my final purchase, and will stay that way. I won't buy another blue tinted SE again.

I'll wait and see what some of the competent folks here have to say about it, and probably still won't purchase it. George is using deleted scenes to bait real fans. It isn't gonna work on me. I'll take my Star Wars without any extra filler.

George pays attention to the changes in Technology.

He saw 1080p was gonna be the next big thing, so he scanned his films out of sheer "Don't wanna do this again". He is a businessman, and a conservative one at that.

Hi Ken. Perhaps you are confusing the transfer from film to digital, versus the transfer from digital to user media.  Of course transfering to BD is different than transfering to DVD.  Folks here are talking about the earlier step which is transfer from film to digital, and given that it was done in 1080p there is a very good chance that it won't be done again.  Else why would GL have done the last transfer in 1080p in the first place?  It was done for this very purpose.

Of course it will look better than the DVDs because it won't have been downscaled.

I also would be surprised if they didn't tweak the colors [sic] -- in fact I'll bet that they'll reduce the blue a bit in ESB in post, and that will get a bunch of the apologist brainless sheep beaming that it's a brand new transfer.  Haha!  That's just a prediction of course... might not happen.  But if it does, I'm going to say "told you so." :)

All of the above is irrelevant, however, because it's not going to be the original academy-award winning trilogy that came out in 1977, 1980, and 1983 and changed the world of movies.  I'm waiting for that and until then I'll stick with the fan preservations.  That much we DO know, and it's enough for me.  I'm just not interested in watching early CGI remakes of ground-breaking 1977 special effects.

@Puggo: The thing is that a better SE transfer (ie. no crushed blacks, less processed picture, better colours) would allow for a more effective fan preservation of the kind that I'm doing. I'm not holding my breath though...

rockin said:

The thing I am suspicious of is why release a trailer showing 2004 transfers of the OT if that is not what they are going to release? Furthermore showing new PT transfers in the trailer and not the OT, must steer more towards this is what we are getting. I mean, why show one new transfer and not the other? I'd like to think there is a genuine good reason for it but I just think it is wishful thinking, probably because there is no new transfer of the OT..

I'm pretty sure the original SE trailer for ROTJ features some non-SE shots. So the trailer for the Blu-Ray set is not really conclusive proof of what we'll get.