deadman911 said:
I have Harmy's releases and love them. What is the difference between these and the Team Blu releases?
BOTH Harmy's Despecialized Edition releases and the Team Blu releases are driving at the same thing: Providing the closest and BEST quality theatrical version experience of the OOT (Original Original Trilogy).
The primary difference is in their methodology:
Harmy's DE version draws upon a wide variety of multiple sources. An upside to this approach is his ability to draw from the BEST source(s) available for any given scene, BUT while damn close, the resulting product is NOT a 100% exact OOT experience. (See Harmy's brief "Sources" documentary available HERE for more on this.)
Team Blu's OOT releases are 100% sourced from the 2006 GOUT bonus discs, the result is a 100% exact OOT version, lovingly and masterfully color corrected and with amazing results…but the GOUT source is very much substandard and despite Team Blu's best efforts, there is only so much magic that can be produced using GOUT exclusively for their video. (See THIS POST and a few posts beyond it for a little more detail.)
There are other similar projects, but these are two of the most prominent recent efforts…and (IMHO) they are both "must have" preservations! ;)
@deho: Specifically, I had 100% verified display issues with johnlocke2342's "Sources-Doc_French_edit3.srt" using the default Charset value in Mkvtoolnix 6.2.0 for Mac (and needed to select ISO 8859-1 instead to properly display special French characters). While I did test and attempt to verify all the language tracks in the two fully muxed products that I earlier ULed, my lack of familiarity and fluency combined with clearly visible issues with the French subs (which otherwise displayed fine as external subs in VLC) lead to my lack of confidence in an otherwise stellar Mkvtoolnix application. I am not sure if this is a bug that I should report in the application, or if there is some other reason for the issue I experienced (at least) with muxing edit3 of the French subs.
@HanDuet and deho: Yeah, I agree…waiting for Harmy's imminent v2.5 release on Blu-ray for a revised stand-alone muxed "Sources" documentary video (using whatever "finalized" subs are available at that point) is the best course of action. Until then, HanDuet's established EXTERNAL subs release strategy looks like a clear winner to me! ;)