I saw it and it's definitely not an upscale. Plus it's not only the ghost but the entire ending celebration - it's scanned from a slightly faded source and it's pretty dirty but it should be very useful, at least until I can get my hands on the N1 footage, which for ROTJ it seems it won't be any time soon.
[quote=nderthexenocide]
UPDATE: Nevermind, just downloaded an iBook sample and the iBook is CLEARLY better and higher resolution. Some photos in the Kindle edition are pixelated, and crystal clear on the iBook. Kind of miffed that the difference wasn't advertised, however, can't complain to be paying $12.99 twice for this collection of amazing content.
I'm sorry if I'm asking in the wrong place - downloaded the 2.1 AVCHD version so I could burn it to a DVD DL as my "goto" copy of Star Wars - but my PS3 says it was unplayable, I have a feeling I didn't burn it right - has someone already addressed a how-to for AVCHD idiots like myself?
Note; when downloaded from myspleen, it did not come in an ISO image as noted in the post; rather just as a "BDMV" folder with subfiles. Not a single disc image readable by burning programs that can read and burn ISO.
digitalfreaknyc said:
[quote=nderthexenocide]
UPDATE: Nevermind, just downloaded an iBook sample and the iBook is CLEARLY better and higher resolution. Some photos in the Kindle edition are pixelated, and crystal clear on the iBook. Kind of miffed that the difference wasn't advertised, however, can't complain to be paying $12.99 twice for this collection of amazing content.
Ugh. Is there any way to download the iBook version and use it on my kindle?
Unfortunately, no. Nobody has broken the DRM yet. It's a bear.
A picture is worth a thousand words. Post 102 is worth more.
I’m late to the party, but I think this is the best song. Enjoy!
—Teams Jetrell Fo 1, Jetrell Fo 2, and Jetrell Fo 3
AntcuFaalb said:
Gogogadget said:
Thanks for saving me a job Harmy :p
BroncoSport said:
I am confused as to why people would want A New Hope in the crawl. This project was to restore the film to as close as possible to what was seen in 1977. "A New Hope" wasn't there and shouldn't be, IMO. Adding it to Harmy's masterpiece seems counter-productive to the original goal.
I have OCD I am George Lucas
Hey! That's not nice to those of us who actually have OCD.
George doesn't have OCD. He's just a dick.
Wasn't a shot at you OCD folk, no worries.
Things (especially like trilogy box sets and that) not being uniform bothers me so much, like if I didn't use the same template for my ANH, ESB & ROTJ covers it would piss me off, and well, one film not having an Episode number & sub-title? Yeah I don't think I can handle that either.
Gogogadget said:
AntcuFaalb said:
Gogogadget said:
Thanks for saving me a job Harmy :p
BroncoSport said:
I am confused as to why people would want A New Hope in the crawl. This project was to restore the film to as close as possible to what was seen in 1977. "A New Hope" wasn't there and shouldn't be, IMO. Adding it to Harmy's masterpiece seems counter-productive to the original goal.
I have OCD I am George Lucas
Hey! That's not nice to those of us who actually have OCD.
George doesn't have OCD. He's just a dick.
Wasn't a shot at you OCD folk, no worries.
I don't think he was objecting to your intentions so much as to what you said.
I have all 3 "Making of" enhanced e-books and am able to play all of the media files and view all of the images on my PC. Not sure if this is what you're wanting or the same as what you have. Extracted, you just have to click on the html file and it loads everything for you.
For example:
The Making of Stars Wars
Images: 1,438 jpegs = 97 MB
Media: 44 mp4 & mp3 items = 148 MB
“Evacuate ...in our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances.”
Just random breaking up of this discussion, but I have to say that I love the warm golden color scheme that Tatooine has in this version. It feels very natural to me, and I never got to see the film in a theater.
Zer0Squared said:
I have all 3 "Making of" enhanced e-books and am able to play all of the media files and view all of the images on my PC. Not sure if this is what you're wanting or the same as what you have. Extracted, you just have to click on the html file and it loads everything for you.
For example:
The Making of Stars Wars
Images: 1,438 jpegs = 97 MB
Media: 44 mp4 & mp3 items = 148 MB
Sounds like you have the Amazon Kindle version. We're talking about the Apple iBookstore version whose files are in HD (unlike the kindle version) but seem to be encrypted.
What’s the internal temperature of a TaunTaun? Luke warm.
Regarding the crawl, still looks like it speeds up right at the end...
analog said:
Regarding the crawl, still looks like it speeds up right at the end...
I thought it was supposed to.
I wonder if there will ever be chance soon to see all the bonus footage from the making of book.
I bought the book as paperback about a year ago. I never even expected to get any rare extra footage!
Thats really great to see and the quality even seems to be pretty good for most of the stuff.
azmodeous said:
Just random breaking up of this discussion, but I have to say that I love the warm golden color scheme that Tatooine has in this version. It feels very natural to me, and I never got to see the film in a theater.
I saw this movie in the theater many times — one of the benefits of having had divorced parents was that I could see any movie I liked twice as many times, and it wasn't too difficult to convince my parents to go see Star Wars — and while memory is a notoriously unreliable yardstick (and these are memories of events over two decades ago), Harmy's 2.1 version, with the revised color palette, had such a familiar sense, so much “clicked into place” so to speak, that no other home video presentation of this film has ever done for me before. It just feels right.
“That’s impossible, even for a computer!”
Where can we get the full unedited starwars.com audio commentaries?
AntcuFaalb said:
I now own the "The Making of Star Wars" iBook. I've been working on deDRM'ing the 720p for you, Harmy.
The iBook itself isn't encrypted. In fact, the ".ibooks" format is just a ZIP file, so renaming it as ".zip" allows me to get at the contents with 7-Zip.
The deDRM program, Requiem 4.1 (the final version), will only work with iTunes 10.7, so I have it and iTunes 10.7 installed in a Windows XP virtual machine running on VirtualBox.
Requiem claims that it can't find any DRM'd files in my iTunes library (yes, I made sure to download the book with iTunes in the VM first), so I extracted all the files and invoked it from the command-line as "requiem.exe input-file output-file" where input-file is one of the m4v files from the iBook.
Requiem determines that the m4v is DRM'd, but gets stuck in the "working" state and never produces an output file.
This is just a progress update.
The media files within the .iBooks package are encrypted. Requiem 4 does not have the iBooks decryption feature. You need to use Requiem 3.3.6. Additionally, you may need to downgrade to iTunes 10.5. iBook decryption was never fully fleshed out by Brahms, and only worked sorta kinda, if you were lucky.
An alternative method is outputting the video segments through an iPad HDMI adapter to an HDMI input card. It may require one of those HDMI splitters with the unadvertised HDCP-removal feature. Perhaps it'll offer a good quality capture.
StarThoughts said:
azmodeous said:
Just random breaking up of this discussion, but I have to say that I love the warm golden color scheme that Tatooine has in this version. It feels very natural to me, and I never got to see the film in a theater.
I saw this movie in the theater many times — one of the benefits of having had divorced parents was that I could see any movie I liked twice as many times, and it wasn't too difficult to convince my parents to go see Star Wars — and while memory is a notoriously unreliable yardstick (and these are memories of events over two decades ago), Harmy's 2.1 version, with the revised color palette, had such a familiar sense, so much “clicked into place” so to speak, that no other home video presentation of this film has ever done for me before. It just feels right.
I technically did see Star Wars in the theater when then the special editions were released, but the second I saw the Jawas knocked off the dinosaur it no longer gave me that positive lasting impression I got when I saw the originals on vhs as a kid. I always felt like vhs was of low quality video and color wise so I had no barometer to judge the color by, I'm glad to see that people who saw it originally do get the same 'this just looks right' feeling I get watching this version!
Just showed the DEed v2.5 at my house to a group of family and friends. There were five or six adults who aren't Star Wars fanatics, a few young adults (one of which has never seen Star Wars), and my 12 year-old niece who had never seen it either. The DEed was enjoyed by all, and I was totally amazed how utterly seamless everything looked. There was no point when I or anyone questioned anything about what we were seeing. It was indistinguishable from a proper HD release of the OUT. And the best part is that two of the viewers do not know that Darth Vader is Luke's father, and everyone else was prompted ahead of time to play along with Obi-Wan's lies for their benefit.
Empire is next week, so we're all looking forward to it. Thanks to Harmy for making it truly possible to watch the original version without even thinking about it.
consumerx said:
AntcuFaalb said:
I now own the "The Making of Star Wars" iBook. I've been working on deDRM'ing the 720p for you, Harmy.
The iBook itself isn't encrypted. In fact, the ".ibooks" format is just a ZIP file, so renaming it as ".zip" allows me to get at the contents with 7-Zip.
The deDRM program, Requiem 4.1 (the final version), will only work with iTunes 10.7, so I have it and iTunes 10.7 installed in a Windows XP virtual machine running on VirtualBox.
Requiem claims that it can't find any DRM'd files in my iTunes library (yes, I made sure to download the book with iTunes in the VM first), so I extracted all the files and invoked it from the command-line as "requiem.exe input-file output-file" where input-file is one of the m4v files from the iBook.
Requiem determines that the m4v is DRM'd, but gets stuck in the "working" state and never produces an output file.
This is just a progress update.
The media files within the .iBooks package are encrypted. Requiem 4 does not have the iBooks decryption feature. You need to use Requiem 3.3.6. Additionally, you may need to downgrade to iTunes 10.5. iBook decryption was never fully fleshed out by Brahms, and only worked sorta kinda, if you were lucky.
I'll give this a shot in a few hours.
A picture is worth a thousand words. Post 102 is worth more.
I’m late to the party, but I think this is the best song. Enjoy!
—Teams Jetrell Fo 1, Jetrell Fo 2, and Jetrell Fo 3
Have you tried playing the extracted videos in iTunes? It requires authorization which seems logical, but even then I wasn't able to play them. Which is sad, as Requiem (ab)uses iTunes itself to make a DRM-free copy.
For AVCHD converter, I suggest use http://www.mtstoavi.com free trial download.
AntcuFaalb said:
consumerx said:
AntcuFaalb said:
I now own the "The Making of Star Wars" iBook. I've been working on deDRM'ing the 720p for you, Harmy.
The iBook itself isn't encrypted. In fact, the ".ibooks" format is just a ZIP file, so renaming it as ".zip" allows me to get at the contents with 7-Zip.
The deDRM program, Requiem 4.1 (the final version), will only work with iTunes 10.7, so I have it and iTunes 10.7 installed in a Windows XP virtual machine running on VirtualBox.
Requiem claims that it can't find any DRM'd files in my iTunes library (yes, I made sure to download the book with iTunes in the VM first), so I extracted all the files and invoked it from the command-line as "requiem.exe input-file output-file" where input-file is one of the m4v files from the iBook.
Requiem determines that the m4v is DRM'd, but gets stuck in the "working" state and never produces an output file.
This is just a progress update.
The media files within the .iBooks package are encrypted. Requiem 4 does not have the iBooks decryption feature. You need to use Requiem 3.3.6. Additionally, you may need to downgrade to iTunes 10.5. iBook decryption was never fully fleshed out by Brahms, and only worked sorta kinda, if you were lucky.
I'll give this a shot in a few hours.
With apologies to Harmy (for the OT post):
I did quite a bit of looking on (and archiving) the soon-to-be extinct? official Requiem Tor website AND in searching both there and elsewhere, this may be one of the most useful and comprehensive iBook DRM removal guides that I found…
-> http://www.ismoothblog.com/2012/12/apple-ibooks-and-itunes-drm-removal.html
Good luck, and…
May the force be with you! ;)
p.s. If you're running on a Mac, here's a really nice step-by-step iTunes uninstall guide…
AntcuFaalb said:
digitalfreaknyc said:
[quote=nderthexenocide]
UPDATE: Nevermind, just downloaded an iBook sample and the iBook is CLEARLY better and higher resolution. Some photos in the Kindle edition are pixelated, and crystal clear on the iBook. Kind of miffed that the difference wasn't advertised, however, can't complain to be paying $12.99 twice for this collection of amazing content.
Ugh. Is there any way to download the iBook version and use it on my kindle?
Unfortunately, no. Nobody has broken the DRM yet. It's a bear.
Are you sure?
Wouldn't this help?:
http://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/2012/09/09/
I have plenty of books on my Kindle, and I edit the metadata and formatting on nearly all of them to my liking with Calibre. This, of course, requires me to break the DRM on them in order to do so. I've never had need to break DRM on an iBook file before, but if it can be done, you can bet Alf's blog will give you the low down on it.
chyron just put a big Ric pic in your sig and be done with it.
chyron8472 said:
AntcuFaalb said:
digitalfreaknyc said:
[quote=nderthexenocide]
UPDATE: Nevermind, just downloaded an iBook sample and the iBook is CLEARLY better and higher resolution. Some photos in the Kindle edition are pixelated, and crystal clear on the iBook. Kind of miffed that the difference wasn't advertised, however, can't complain to be paying $12.99 twice for this collection of amazing content.
Ugh. Is there any way to download the iBook version and use it on my kindle?
Unfortunately, no. Nobody has broken the DRM yet. It's a bear.
Are you sure?
Wouldn't this help?:
http://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/2012/09/09/
I have plenty of books on my Kindle, and I edit the metadata and formatting on nearly all of them to my liking with Calibre. This, of course, requires me to break the DRM on them in order to do so. I've never had need to break DRM on an iBook file before, but if it can be done, you can bet Alf's blog will give you the low down on it.
The problem is that Requiem 3.3.6 + iTunes 10.5.3 is needed for breaking iBook DRM, but iTunes 10.5.3 requires iOS 5.1.1. Unfortunately, my iPad is on 7.0.3...
A picture is worth a thousand words. Post 102 is worth more.
I’m late to the party, but I think this is the best song. Enjoy!
—Teams Jetrell Fo 1, Jetrell Fo 2, and Jetrell Fo 3
any idea on when the avc-hd of 2.5 will be out? sorry if its been covered, have been away from the site for a while.
AntcuFaalb said:
The problem is that Requiem 3.3.6 + iTunes 10.5.3 is needed for breaking iBook DRM, but iTunes 10.5.3 requires iOS 5.1.1. Unfortunately, my iPad is on 7.0.3...
Mind sharing some more details? Is using your iPad (or other iOS device) a necessary part of the DRM removing process? If so, what iPad do you have? Have you attempted downgrading it to iOS 5.1.1? Is anything specific preventing you from installing iTunes 10.5.3?
I realized you've probably already considered these things, but in case you haven't, here's an article describing how to downgrade to iOS 5.1.1 and a download link for the iTunes 10.5.3 installer:
http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/how_downgrade_back_ios_5
EDIT: Be warned that the process in the above article only works for certain devices, be sure to follow appropriate links and research the issue thoroughly before attempting any sort of iOS downgrade!!
http://filehippo.com/download_itunes_32/11465/
If a device running iOS 5.1.1 is essential to the process and you're unable to downgrade, I might be able to help. I have saved SHSH blob for my iPhone 4S, which means I SHOULD be able to downgrade without much trouble. Y'all just let me know, and I'll be happy to step in and fill this role if needed.
HanDuet’s Guide (“HDG”) to Download Harmy’s Star Wars Despecialized Editions
Checksums & File Verifications for Harmy’s Despecialized Editions
Harmy’s Sources Documentary (11 min version) on YouTube