As I wrote in the first post, I'd like to do a disc that contains laserdisc-only extras - not available on DVD or BD... but nobody told me yet which are the LD-only ones!
I must admit I like also the idea of making a "laserdisc extra compendium", that indeed probably will take more than a single BD-25...
FreaQ said:
How would this be different from "The Ultimate Supplemental Collection" by RowMan?
I found this thread about that... I have not watched the four DVDs; reading the list of supplemental material in the first post, it seems they include all the DC extras, plus a lot more things that were not on laserdiscs... but it seems that the 1997 SE extras are not there, right?
IF, and I underline IF, I will decide to do a SW XTRAS [ruLes] using my own "method" (^^,), then I will use for NTSC material the Pioneer HLD-X9 for its superior quality, three different copies of the DC (two US and one japanese) and two copies of SE box set for median/average; I will include different language soundtracks and subtitles where available.
Using a newer (maybe better) capture card, the second best laserdisc player ever made, average/median methods, a better video codec (X.264 Vs MPEG2), a bigger media (BD25 Vs DVD5), higher bitrate for audio and video... the final result will be probably a better quality release, with less artifacts; plus, the most important thing, I will release "From Star Wars to Jedi" without japanese subtitles, and I don't think it is available elsewhere, right?
But, at the end, why someone should make all of this - that will take a lot of time and hard work - when the most part is available on BD, with higher quality? Are extras on BD "specialized" too, to worth a special preservation?
Or, simply, I could think to gather all the SW laserdisc extras, despite the fact they are available on DVD or BD, just because they are on laserdisc, and they will be a perfect companion for the OUT and SET... and, because a lot of people will be happy to have them all in a single place!
Could be a bad case of laserdisc fever?!? (LD,)