beyourowndensity said:
towne32 said:
iamsometal said:
After purchasing the retail versions of the films:
Download the .iso files from wherever you can find them. You'll need to burn them to Verbatim DVD+R DL discs. There's a helpful video on youtube that will walk you through the process. Just search "How to get Original Unaltered Star Wars Trilogy on Blu-ray." Ignore the blu-ray in the title, this video will explain how to burn to DVD+R DL discs.
I'm not super familiar with the DVDs, so density can ignore me if I'm wrong, but isn't the DVD-DL an AVCHD? And wouldn't that be of no use to him without a blu-ray player?
I thought the only native DVD versions were DVD5s, but I could certainly be wrong. Anyway, the main point of this is good. Density, you can google to find torrents of the DVD versions of despecialized. And google how to use torrents if you're not familiar. Once downloaded, use imgburn to burn it to a blank DVD (the above discussion was whether or not you need a single or double layer DVD - I'm not sure). You might find a ".iso" file as described above, or it might be a folder full of files. I've only seen the latter for the DVD5 Harmy releases. Either way, imgburn can do it and google has anything that we might be leaving out of these posts.
Wait, what is meant by "after purchasing the retail versions of the films"? I already have the Special Editions, are the retail movies required for me to download the Despecialised versions? And are there certain types of discs I can use to make the DVDs higher quality without making them unusable on a DVD player? (to add further confusion to the "which disc" argument)
I'm a girl, by the way. Just putting that out there. XD
Yeah, the purchasing retail versions first is just our honor system. The only available retail versions are the special editions, so if you own those, you're all set.
And you will need a blu-ray disc player that is AVCHD compatible to play the discs. A PS3 will play AVCHD on both on disc or from a thumbdrive, for example.
The specific disc you'll need is Verbatim's DVD+DL, since it is the highest capacity blank burnable DVD media available, the Despecialized Trilogy discs are formatted to fit on those discs.
If you own a Playstation 3, you can watch a higher quality version by downloading the MKV 17gb files and following the formatting instructions on page 1 of this thread, convert that file to an AVCHD and just transfer it to a thumbdrive. The PS3 will then stream it directly from the thumbdrive. It's a near-blu-ray experience, with fantastic 720p video and DTS-HD MA lossless audio track.