Harmy's THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK Despecialized Edition HD - V2.0 - MKV & AVCHD (Released) — Page 112

One question at Hairy_hen about the ESB audio, when they're going to the carbon freezing chamber, I've found C-3P0's instructions to Chewbacca, about how he has a responsibility to him, to be a bit drowned out.  Granted, most times I've gone through that sequence I haven't had my speakers up to what I'd consider a proper level for really watching the film, but each time that scene has gone by while playing the movie as background noise, it has stuck out to me.  Is that line supposed to be a little overpowered and I'm just not making out all the words easily because I don't have the volume up enough, or is something else going on?  (I keep forgetting to go back to that scene to check, sorry.)

hairy_hen said:

The proper way to do this is to use an SPL meter to individually measure the output of each speaker at the listening position, and adjust the levels of each in the receiver until they all measure exactly the same.

Thanks for the info, hh.  That's a great post for manually calibrating a surround sound setup.  As ScruffyNerfHerder recommended, I used Audyssey to auto-calibrate my Onkyo receiver a year ago when I moved into my current apartment.

Aside from my personal preference, the issue I have had with this audio track is that in one whole year, this is the only movie that I've watched in the living room that has woken up my girlfriend in the room across the hall.  This is why I'd like a 5.1 track that has bass levels on par with most movies.

I'm just curious if you have this track without the bass enhancement.  If not, no big deal :)

Hi guys.

@Harmy: Love you for what you doin :) really appreciate your hard work!

@all: Sry for beeing stupid, but where can i find the downloadlink? (mkv version; jdownloader)

CatBus said:

Could be the Lowry equivalent of the extra grappling hook throw, a false memory.  I distinctly remember talking with people while waiting in our seats about the Lowry cleanup.  Then again, maybe the conversation did happen and we were just all full of it...

 The extra grappling hook throw is real.

Hello

I'm from Europe/Hungary so excuse my grammar mistakes please, I'm not a native speaker.

First of all I want to say thank you to Harmy and everyone who worked on this remastered version. I really hated all those CGI versions. It was really nice to watch the original masterpiece in a better quality. 

Though I couldn't download the fifth and sixth episode, so I have to beg for an invitation as well :/

The mentioned episodes are on piratebay, but someone removed all the dub tracks, except the English. I like the English version too but u guys could understand me, when I was a kid I saw the original trilogy on my native language.. So for me that's the one which brings my childhood memories back.

Also, I don't know if are there any Dragon Ball fans here (SW and DB have a lot in common, the author was a huge SW fan). It would be really cool to make a fan-restored version of that too since the publishers nowadays do the same unforgivable things to the DB as Lucas do to the SW...

Anyways, sorry for the long post, I just wanted to make you guys feel some sympathy for a foreigner SW fan :P Please send me an invitation here -> alestat[dot]flowolf[at]gmail[dot]com

Thx and keep up the quality work

Edited: Problem solved, thx all.

 Since you repeated yourself here, I will too.

Alestat said:

Hello,

I'm from Europe/Hungary so excuse my grammar mistakes please, I'm not a native speaker.

First of all I want to say thank you to Harmy and everyone who worked on this remastered version. I really hated all those CGI versions. It was really nice to watch the original masterpiece in a better quality. 

Though I couldn't download the fifth and sixth episode, so I have to beg for an invitation as well :/

The mentioned episodes are on piratebay, but someone removed all the dub tracks, except the English. I like the English version too but u guys could understand me, when I was a kid I saw the original trilogy on my native language.. So for me that's the one which brings my childhood memories back.

Also, I don't know if are there any Dragon Ball fans here

I stopped reading right there.

Molly said:

Huh, I haven't heard of Dragon Ball getting mangled in editing, just really bad mastering...

Offtopic: The Kai was recutted and they redrawn certain scenes. The newly drawn scenes' look like they have been made by a left handed drunk 10 yrs old (in Paint). The original celluloids and film rolls are lost so they are not able to record the whole thing again, with the current technology. The only way to make a good remastered version would be even more tough job than in the Star Wars' case... To find the original celluloid and background paintings' owners, use home recorded VHS', talk to the non-Japanese TV broadcasters if they still had their copies and stuff like that... I don't think it will ever happens :/

Alestat said:

Molly said:

Huh, I haven't heard of Dragon Ball getting mangled in editing, just really bad mastering...

Offtopic: The Kai was recutted and they redrawn certain scenes. The newly drawn scenes' look like they have been made by a left handed drunk 10 yrs old (in Paint). The original celluloids and film rolls are lost so they are not able to record the whole thing again, with the current technology. The only way to make a good remastered version would be even more tough job than in the Star Wars' case... To find the original celluloid and background paintings' owners, use home recorded VHS', talk to the non-Japanese TV broadcasters if they still had their copies and stuff like that... I don't think it will ever happens :/

 You'd be better off if you said "on-topic" whenever you actually post something that qualifies.

Since I'm more like a "manga version" DB fan, when I say DB I think about the DB and the Z as well, sorry for the inaccuracy. For me it's one continuous storyline. The Z brand was just a "marketing trick" for the new series, they didn't even have a break between the the 2 series' broadcasting (or making) in Japan.

I don't know much about the american releases, I have seen a few of them and all they did is that they resized and cropped the videos to HD dimensions + did some awful contrast/lighting/colour correction + censored some scenes. The best release so far is the Japanese Dragon Box in 4:3 standard dimensions with a really really bad audio quality.

I remembered wrongly about the 16mm prints. They have them, it's just in a bad condition. That's why they should re-record the whole thing with the original celluloid and background images. But that's not possible since those are already fan properties. Even u could buy them on the Ebay.

The audio was the one that lost, sorry for the confusion. They were recorded on separated rolls but later on they mixed those with the video on another tape and threw the original away (they said it took too much space...). It resulted in a really low volume and bad audio quality. There are rumors that some non-Japanese TV studios still have a copy of the original audio rolls (they got it for the translation/dubbing process).

FFS

TV's Frink said:

FFS

Don't be nervous mate, I'm done. =)
(BTW our conversation was about comparing different remastering methods. It's not even offtopic if u think about it. Ignore it if you are not interested in.)

hey harmy good job so far with this version. theres two things you could have fixed in Empire Strikes back the dagobah duel lukes lightsaber and bespin bridge lightsabers. the dagobah part lukes lightsaber fades and becomes a thin line always strange to see. the bespin part its always blury, not clear and glows way to much. i know ADYWAN fixed these problems in his Empire Strikes Back. it would be great to see these problems fixed in your version

It starts white and then turns brown.

well who said fixing problems affects the true story of starwars? i wasnt saying add stuff i was only suggesting to maybe fix certain things in the original movie eventually. lets face it theres lots of incorrect problems with the visuals in the original trilogy.