Matt_Stevens said:
I really feel battles need to picked and chosen carefully. The damn matted in eyebrows are atrocious. For the love of Pete, that's one we can just let slide. It's not a big deal, but becomes a bigger deal with them matted in. It's terribly distracting.
Certain other oddities about these are kind of perplexing. Why not show R2D2 with his true blue sections during the finale in Episode IV? Reverting to black is kind of silly. That is one issue about the original effects where they were forced to go black for R2 because of blue screen. Showing the true blue would be fine with me. It's not a horrid CGI change or some stupid creature matted in. It's a flaw that has been fixed. I don't object to those at all.
That being said, I bow doen to the expertise it took to pull these off.
I'm finally burning all three of these to DVD DL and will show my nieces (ages 10 and 12) each film, one per Saturday... And it is their first time. They have yet to see a single STAR WARS film and know nothing about them.
Not even who Luke's dad is. So I'm pumped.
For the record, I for one would like Star Wars 2.5 as a 50GB Blu-Ray. Or even a 25GB Blu-Ray. Either would be a huge improvement of heavily compressed 720p (which still looks fantastic, so don't get me wrong).
Last thing... Why not leave PCM as is? I just don't buy into compressing it down. 16 bit LPCM cannot be beatand should be left completely alone.
I don't speak for Harmy, but it's been discussed to hell and back what his despecialized versions are: re-creating the original theatrical versions, warts and all.
Because we don't have these versions that many people grew up on and were products of their time, Harmy is painstakingly trying to put them back together. If he were to let slide any "fixes" then it just becomes a slippery slope of each individual's preferences. If they bother you (or anyone else), you (or anyone else) are completely entitled to making your own version with your own personal adjustments. I'm sorry, but asking Harmy to let SE changes remain is like asking Adywan to make his Revisited versions look more like the original.
I agree that the matted eyebrows stick out a bit in version 1.0, but 2.0 looks like it's going to correct that, along with higher bit-rate video and audio. The end product should be a 25gig bluray (the MKV of ANH 2.5 and ESB 2.0 are already compressed to this target medium)
Also, the majority of the audio in the new 2.0 despecialized are losslessly compressed, so there is absolutely NOTHING lost sonically in the conversion.