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PAL DVD bootleg of Definitive Edition Laserdisc!

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Hi peepz,

First post on here, and I thought I´d check the status on a possible PAL transfer of the Definitive Edition Laserdisc. I´ve been browsing and checking out various bootlegs and haven´t seen any PAL version yet. I´m from Iceland btw, and here we use the PAL system. It offers a slightly higher resolution picture, but at the same time has fewer frames per second than the NTSC system. So please peepz, if you know of any PAL transfer of those laserdiscs, then let me know. Cheers! ;-)

Btw, just had my own VHS copies of the 1995 "The original Star Wars available for the last time" widescreen release transferred to DVD. Will get them tomorrow, pretty exited about it. I had hardly played those tapes (out of fear of damaging them!) so they are in pristine condition and should make a good transfer to DVD.

I really can´t stand all those changes made by Mr. Lucas, escpecially the Greedo debacle, Anakin switch and the Jabba scene. He should show some respect to the films that made him a legend in the business, the people who grew up watching them (and put food on his table by buying everything he released!),... and I´m not even gonna go into all the hard (award winning) work by the countless people, whose brilliant work is being erased from history, by some dodgy computer generated imagery which often looks a lot more fake and unconvincing then the original stuff. It´s a real shame. It looks like going for the Laserdisc DVD bootleg is the only way to preserve those classics...

peace,

Rebelscum
peace,

Rebelscum
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Depending on what you were looking to spend for them I could do a pal transfer for you. If your interested contact me.

Brias
www.suicidalwombat.com
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There is a number of Bootleg threads with DVD-r/Laserdisc rip subjects. Also there is a number of torrent threads...this may be the best way to go, do a little research here, there is number of members that have done a lot of work in this area. Welcome to the board.
16 years I wait and this is what I get???
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I think everyone would agree that PAL is a better system, after all it is possible on computers to play it at 24fps (and I assume this will be made avialable to future DVD Players/TVs) meaning every frame-for-frame of the video is identical to the theatrical presentation. Maybe. It could have just been a shoddy NTSC - 2 - PAL job. Even the most perfect NTSC2PAL tranfers still leave inferior quality PAL. Some movies, eg Aliens were actually shot in 25fps anyway meaning the PAL version is not only frame-for-frame correct, but also correct speed-wise. Someone would have to investigate if the quality of the PAL laserdiscs are superior to the NTSC ones. In terms of audio it would be the same. But you may as well just rip TR-47's audio job and use it with your transfer.