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Anybody find any easter eggs yet?
Where were you in '77?
Star Wars coming to Blu Ray (UPDATE: August 30 2011, No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!) — Page 306
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Adium said:
LOLZ
Love it.
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Cuchulainn said:
I've got 1 (count 'em) BD!!
Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon.
If you're to only have one, that ain't bad -- even though they fucked up the aspect ratio. ; )
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cthulhu1138 said:
Good luck. Amazon stopped selling them so I hear. But yeah, back on topic... The only movie out of the six that looked really good was TPM.
Um, really? What about the seriously excessive DVNr?
And as far as ANH goes, you can really tell the color timing is off during the shootouts. In the original versions the screen would flash red, now I get these cringe inducing purple flares going off.
You all might not have noticed, but your brain did. :)
LOL. Yeah, we noticed. 7 years ago ;-)
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skyjedi2005 said:
Pros for laserdisc over vhs and dvd. No region code and no macrovision.
Pros over Blu ray no drm.
Hacks or ways to bypass macrovision and dvd region lockouts were taken care of though not necessarily legal under USA laws.
Blu ray could have been without region codes or lockouts but Sony and some studios did not want that because of reverse importation.
While a Blu ray movie that is in region A say a japan release will also work in the USA, a Blu ray pS3 game will not.
I don't think there's any way of circumventing that short of buying a PS3 from Japan. Sony and Nintendo did GIANT mod chip crackdowns a few years back, and I don't think there's a legal way to make game consoles region free for games. But I also don't know much about the subject. On that subject, I have an electronics question I have posed in the off-topic forum if anyone would know...
Jaskoen said:
Geez Mike O. Glass half empty much?
Well, we've been battling forever, and first wound up with the GOUT and now this. It's just hard not to finally just throw up my hands.
“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.”
Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death
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Never give up!Mike O said:
Well, we've been battling forever, and first wound up with the GOUT and now this. It's just hard not to finally just throw up my hands.
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Jaskoen said:
Mike O said:
Well, we've been battling forever, and first wound up with the GOUT and now this. It's just hard not to finally just throw up my hands.
Never give up!
Might want to fix your formatting there.
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Odd. ok, fixed.TV's Frink said:
Might want to fix your formatting there.
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On second glance, it's not your formatting so much as you've hotlinked an image that no one will be able to see. Clear your cache and look again.
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Jaskoen said:
Never give up!Mike O said:
Well, we've been battling forever, and first wound up with the GOUT and now this. It's just hard not to finally just throw up my hands.
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IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
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Funny story-
I was at dinner last night with my family (it was my Birthday) and my Sister asked why I hadn't asked for the new Star Wars Blu-Ray set as a present (I guess she'd seen ads on TV). My Niece immediately said "DON'T BUY THOSE! I HEAR THEY'RE TERRIBLE- PEOPLE ARE BOYCOTTING THEM!" I told her I wasn't buying them and that I'd actually made a blu-ray- boycott page on facebook.
I asked my Niece where she heard about the boycotting and she said "probably your facebook page!" :-P
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Cool :-)
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Mr. Bungle said:
Cuchulainn said:
I've got 1 (count 'em) BD!!
Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon.
If you're to only have one, that ain't bad -- even though they fucked up the aspect ratio. ; )
How so?
“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.”
Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death
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OMG. The infamous "Nooooooo" was dubbed for the French Blu. A friend just made me listen to this passage.
Let's put it this way: if you listened to it, you'd say you'd even prefer Vader saying it in English.
This Blu must definitely be saying "You'll find I'm full of surprises" :D
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It's even in the czech dub. I guess Lucasfilm requested all language tracks to have the same fuckups sorry "deliberate creative decisions"
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It is properly done in the Czech dub? Or is it crappy(er)?
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Mike O said:
Mr. Bungle said:
Cuchulainn said:
I've got 1 (count 'em) BD!!
Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon.
If you're to only have one, that ain't bad -- even though they fucked up the aspect ratio. ; )
How so?
The cinematic ratio was a matted 1.66:1, whereas, the BD is 1.85:1. I actually prefer it this way. I hated the way the DVDs of a lot of Kubrick films were presented full-screen...
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A lot of those early DVD's were warmed over Laserdisc masters approved by Kubrick back in the day before widescreen tv sets were common. It would have been different had he not passed away before DVD really took off.
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SilverWook said:
A lot of those early DVD's were warmed over Laserdisc masters approved by Kubrick back in the day before widescreen tv sets were common. It would have been different had he not passed away before DVD really took off.
Yeah, he would have loved the format, I think. Particularly with the new TVs that are out these days, and BD of course...
Going wildly off-topic here (and I promise I won't make a habit of this) but has anyone got the BD of Excalibur? The DVD was woefully mis-framed and I was wondering had this been corrected?
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The DVDactive review for ROTJ is up:
http://www.dvdactive.com/reviews/dvd/star-wars-episode-vi-return-of-the-jedi3.html
You know of the rebellion against the Empire?
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Cuchulainn said:
Going wildly off-topic here (and I promise I won't make a habit of this) but has anyone got the BD of Excalibur? The DVD was woefully mis-framed and I was wondering had this been corrected?
I'll just mention the 2 informative sites below Cuchulainn, as they may be useful in future for anyone that doesn't know about them yet -
According to dvdcompare.net, it seems that the 'Excalibur' dvd was released in both a 1.85:1 aspect ratio and a 1.78:1 aspect ratio depending on what region you happened to be in, while the blu-ray has only been released in a 1.78:1 aspect ratio.
And here's what dvdbeaver.com says about that particular blu-ray title - http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film3/blu-ray_reviews53/excalibur_blu-ray.htm
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Erikstormtrooper said:
The DVDactive review for ROTJ is up
Ah, you just beat me to mentioning that final 'review' link from there Erik. :)
And here's another one from that site that's worth a quick read, just for completion - http://www.dvdactive.com/editorial/articles/revistied-the-ten-things-that-the-forthcoming-star-wars-blu-ray-should-include.html - it reminded me that there's no trailers on the latest set, so I'm still waiting to get a good version of this particular one, which gave me my first glimpse into a larger world - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BhZI9GcWdI
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ImperialFighter said:
Cuchulainn said:
Going wildly off-topic here (and I promise I won't make a habit of this) but has anyone got the BD of Excalibur? The DVD was woefully mis-framed and I was wondering had this been corrected?
I'll just mention the 2 informative sites below Cuchulainn, as they may be useful in future for anyone that doesn't know about them yet -
According to dvdcompare.net, it seems that the 'Excalibur' dvd was released in both a 1.85:1 aspect ratio and a 1.78:1 aspect ratio depending on what region you happened to be in, while the blu-ray has only been released in a 1.78:1 aspect ratio.
And here's what dvdbeaver.com says about that particular blu-ray title - http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film3/blu-ray_reviews53/excalibur_blu-ray.htm
Thanks, IF, I'll bookmark those for later use (no doubt). I actually own both the R1 and R2 of Excalibur and they're both dreadful...Hopefully the BD is an improvement. Anyway, enough of this crapola...
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Confused Matthew, who I usually disagree with, weighs in on the Blu:
http://confusedmatthew.com/Random-Rants.php
I like that he call BS on George's "critics always hated Star Wars" routine.
I'm not quite buying the Joel Schumacher>George Lucas argument, though.