MaximRecoil said:
Wazzles said:
Please stop. I came here to talk about a possible 4K transfer and you have successfully perverted the thread into an entirely new tangent. Is it too hard to agree to disagree? What's with all this lawyer talk, anyway?
You're confused. Every one of my posts on this thread has been in direct reply to someone else's post, and has been relevant to said post. So, to clear up your confusion: everyone who has been arguing about the GOUT (including the people who can only manage to comment on the argument from the peanut gallery) has "successfully perverted the thread into an entirely new tangent" (I haven't been arguing with myself, obviously). Do you want a list of usernames, or do you think you can just scroll up and find them yourself?
Why do you do this? What do you get out of trying to one up people on the internet? And because you like to analyze every single goddamn word anyone posts, by "trying" I do not necessarily mean "unsuccessfully". Besides, when someone says that the GOUT is completely "unwatchable" or "horrendous", they are simply stating their opinion, or their own point of view. To them, they may find them as just those things. There is really no point in changing their opinion. And no, I'm not confused, because you are the one who is arguing against absolutely anything anyone says that is in no way related to the topic at hand. You are also the one who sent the thread into this tangent, as your very first post on the subject is the one that derailed the thread.
The quality wasn't horrendous, it just wasn't nearly as good as it could have been. The old homespun LaserDisc transfers ("TR47", etc.) used to get nearly universal praise on this forum, even into 2006 just before the GOUT was released. In fact, people here were still gushing about the recently-released (at the time) Cowclops/TR47 v.2, right as the GOUT was being announced. The GOUT blows all of those LaserDisc transfers out of the water, at least in terms of video quality (its 192 kbps AC-3 audio is nothing to write home about though).
The GOUT was the ultimate "LaserDisc transfer" (so to speak), given that it skipped the LaserDisc and went straight to the masters that were the source of the most commonly transferred LaserDiscs ('93 Definitive and '95 Faces).
I loved the original "TR47" when I first discovered it in '05. However, I played it side by side with the GOUT the other day on my PC and it was horrible in comparison. Not only is the TR47 less detailed/clear, but the brightness and borders of the letterboxing constantly and rapidly flicker in it as well.
If the GOUT had been released by an OT.com forum member in 2006 instead of by Lucasfilm, it would have set this place on fire, and said forum member would have been an instant OT.com "celebrity".
This was in response to MFM saying:
Regardless of how horrendous the quality was, he still gave people an opportunity to see the unaltered versions; as long as they don't replace the Special Editions then he won't care.
I honestly just want this thread to get back on topic. Is this a problem with you?
PS Sorry for the weird quoting and highlighting, I can't seem to make it go away properly.