Originally posted by: The Bizzle
Either way, the point I made still stands--trying to judge a DVD image by laserdisc standards is pretty ridiculous. No one stands around looking at Indy Jones and going "There's no way this movie looks like that. Look how COLORFUL it is. Look how GREEN those trees are. Why isn't everything more pale and washed out like my laserdiscs are?"
You've got people in here pissing all over a phenomenal restoration because it doesn't look like a early 90's laserdisc transfer, and that's silly as hell. You've got people trying to convince others that a washed out, desaturated image of Chewie looking more GRAY than anything is closer to correct because "There's no way that shade of brown exists on earth.." Which is in and of itself a ludicrous statement.
Either way, the point I made still stands--trying to judge a DVD image by laserdisc standards is pretty ridiculous. No one stands around looking at Indy Jones and going "There's no way this movie looks like that. Look how COLORFUL it is. Look how GREEN those trees are. Why isn't everything more pale and washed out like my laserdiscs are?"
You've got people in here pissing all over a phenomenal restoration because it doesn't look like a early 90's laserdisc transfer, and that's silly as hell. You've got people trying to convince others that a washed out, desaturated image of Chewie looking more GRAY than anything is closer to correct because "There's no way that shade of brown exists on earth.." Which is in and of itself a ludicrous statement.
Totally agree with that. Although it is not unheard of that different regions have received different copies of the same master title from other regions due to some stupid marketting idea, I believe in this case it is more than likely the same, and people either have their equipment whether TV or PC setup incorrectly, or simply are too used to a poorer picture after years of the VHS and LD releases, which truthfully were always shit quality in comparison to VHS and LD copies of movies made around the same time as the original trilogy. It's sad but it's true, the OOT was/has never been released in a decent quality, but like I've said if the 93 or 95 LDs are the best copis of the OOT we'll ever have, I'm happy coz it could be worse.
In general if Star Wars, Empre, and Jedi were made in the last couple of years, the colours would have looked similar to what we see on the DVDs, regardless that this colour treatment has been done digitally. End of story.
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