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Post #682340

Author
Harmy
Parent topic
Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released)
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Date created
8-Jan-2014, 9:38 AM

Well, I must say that if the only problem with the release was that it has the 1981 crawl, that certainly wouldn't be a deal breaker for me. An iTunes only release on the other hand, definitely would. I seriously don't understand, why someone would be willing to pay nearly the same price as for a BD to download a 4GB 1080p with vastly inferior sound and little to no extras. I've had the opportunity to see a few iTunes encodes and they were horribly compressed - the only kind of film, where this kind of compression wouldn't matter much would be a CGI animated film with no grain, so an iTunes only release of Star Wars would be a total slap in the face.

And a simple scan of an IB print with no further work done on it would also not be a satisfactory release - you have to do color correction on a scan, to make sure the colors correspond to the way the print looks when projected. The prints are pretty old, so there would be dust and scratches and stuff, that should be cleaned up (although admittedly a wet gate scan could take care of most of those) and even with just that, it would be an acceptable release, but definitely not a good one.