MaximRecoil said:
adywan said:
4:3 TV's stopped being sold here in the UK much earlier than 2006, in fact CRT TV's weren't on sale AT ALL in 2006, only LCD and Plasma 16:9 TV's. You could find them online, just about, but in the main stores, no CRT's to be found. How do i know this, In 2005 my Dad wanted to replace his now defunked 4:3 portable TV, which had a built in VHS player. We went all around the shops and nothing. So he got a 16:9 20" LCD TV with built in DVD player instead. But even then, most people i knew who HADN'T upgraded to a LCD/ Plasma still had 16:9 CRT TV's, not 4:3
I bought a new 32" CRT TV in 2006 at Wal-Mart.
I'm pretty sure i said the UK. So what has you buying one at Walmart got anything to do with what i was saying? Just because they were still on sale in the US does not mean that they were available everywhere else in the world. I guess the UK just progressed a little quicker than the US ;) j/k
So was your new 32" CRT TV 4:3 or 16:9?
MaximRecoil said:
I guess you don't know that nearly all of the most popular and well-regarded fan preservations were transfers from the 1993 and/or 1995 LaserDiscs, which were made from the same masters that the GOUT was made from. This means they had the same "digital smearing and terrible aliasing problems" that the GOUT has, because those were present in the 1993 D1 masters. The claim that the GOUT was of less quality is false by any objective/technical standard, given that they are from the same source and the fan preservations have a lot more loss relative to the source:
GOUT = 1993 D1 master --> DVD-9
Most fan preservations = 1993 D1 master --> LaserDisc --> DVD-5
I guess you don't know that many of the preservations used the PAL 1995 laserdiscs ( someone correct me if i am wrong, it has been a long time since i visited the various laserdisc preservation threads), which didn't suffer with the aliasing problems and has a hell of a lot less digital smearing then the NTSC laserdiscs. They also used a different master than the one used for the GOUT. No 4-eyed stormtrooper, for one. I'm not sure why they wouldn't have used the PAL versions and just adjusted the speed for the GOUT. It would have been a much better product. Even the PAL GOUT discs for eps 4 & 5 used the terrible NTSC master, yet used the PAL master for episode 6, which is better quality than the NTSC counterpart.
Now, back on topic.........
I still have a feeling that these masters were going to be for the 3D versions originally, or that a restoration was started before George signed the dotted line to Disney as a sweetener. The footage was definitely NOT the 2003 transfer. But anything is pure speculation until we get word from LFL, if they ever surface that is. With 4K blu-ray players coming on the market later 2015 ( just before episode 7) , could these be one of the first 4k blu-rays to appear on the market? A tie in with the new film or as part of a blu-ray package if a deal is done with one of the companies? That would certainly boost any potential sales of 4k equipment.