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I deleted (what was left of) part002.rar and replaced it with the REPOST file.

QuickPar picked it up as a misnamed file and found 32 blocks. Looking promising so far.............

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Screenshots are now up on my comparison page.

This is a pretty good transfer; although it doesn't quite have the detail of the Moth3r or Citizen versions, it's still very well done and I'm sure many people will appreciate the subtitles.

I loved this:

http://img326.imageshack.us/img326/3521/watdat0jd.jpg

No wonder all Dutch people can speak English, if it's that easy to learn.

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Originally posted by: Moth3r
Screenshots are now up on my comparison page.

This is a pretty good transfer; although it doesn't quite have the detail of the Moth3r or Citizen versions, it's still very well done and I'm sure many people will appreciate the subtitles.

I loved this:

http://img326.imageshack.us/img326/3521/watdat0jd.jpg

No wonder all Dutch people can speak English, if it's that easy to learn.


LOL! I already could speak english when I was 3, thanks to Star Wars, because English and Dutch are almost the same language
Afterall, "This are the same Jawas that sold us Artoo and Treepio" is almost the same as "Dit zijn dezelfde Jawas die ons Artoo en Treepio verkochten"
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How are you going to translate Death Star? 'Doodster', 'Ster des Doods' or something else?

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I kinda hope it's "Doodster." I'd consider dumping "Karyudo" for that nick...
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Thanks for the flowers Moth3r! And for putting the screens up. Remember everyone, during playback this look different than on a screenshot About the subtitles: I ripped them from the official DVD, did some minor edits on the English ones ("spice mines of Kessel" instead of "Kessel spice mines" for instance). But I had to improve the Dutch ones quite a bit, I really wasn't satisfied with the original ones. I did leave the original translation "Death Star" > "Ster des Doods" however. "Doodster" is a bit childish I think. The same as I would say "I will kill you dead!", you'll know what I mean, but it doesn't really sound impressive, does it? I prefer English subs anyway.

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Originally posted by: Grinder
Posting 10% (299 blocks) extra PAR2, and will start a complete repost after that. Using a friend of mine's payserver now.


The repost has come through fine.

I will start a burn going now and watch properly in the morning.

Thanks again.....................



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I might have missed something or just be completely wrong so please bear with me...............

When I first saw the Moth3r PAL ANH I marvelled at how fantastic it was but was also horrified at two major flaws in the very first droids in the corridor scene. When the Citizen PAL ANH came out, the flaws were there too. I cross checked with my PAL VHS ANH tapes and the same flaw appeared there too.


http://www.galactictradefederation.com/russ/flaw1.jpg

http://www.galactictradefederation.com/russ/flaw2.jpg

I have since taken this as almost a "trademark" of the remastered PAL releases.

The trouble is, the Grinder version does not have these flaws.

Have they been repaired by Grinder, is this a different master or am I just totally wrong??????

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Hey Russ, you got it complete! So the repost worked...

About the scratches: I've hated those ever since I first saw them (in my case, on Moth3r's release). So I decided they should be fixed. The original plan was to extract those two frames, fix them in Photoshop, and re-insert them. But before I went through all that hassle, I checked if I could just as well ditch the two frames. And to my surprise you don't notice that at all, mostly due to the wild camera movement in that shot. That entire shot needed some serious enhancement btw: the saturation/brightness/contast is totally off, I don't know what they've done over at THX: the NTSC releases don't have that. Anyway, I fixed that too, so now it matches up with the other Tantive shots.

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I mixed the REPOST files with what I had decent from the first post. Out of 50 or so files I got from the REPOST, only 3 files had 1 block missing so that was a very successfull post indeed.

Thanks for clarifying the flaw question I had. I thought I was going crazy.

The whole thing does look very nice indeed on my 42" Plasma telly so it was well worth the download.

I look forward to more releases from you in the future. The pre-THX PAL Widescreens look particularly interesting if that project ever happens as well as the First Issues from the UK.

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Has anyone acquired one of the French pre-THX PAL sets? (I remember Laserman saying he had that set, and "the quality is bloody awful - not worth the trouble unfortunately").

Regardless of video quality, I would be interested to know whether the French soundtrack is pitch-corrected or not.

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Check this ugly frame in TESB, what the hell happened here...

http://www.student.kun.nl/tomdriessen/ugly.JPG

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TESB has been practically done for a week or so, but I still have to do some finishing up. I'll finish it as soon as possible, but at the moment I'm pretty busy studying for a couple of exams that are coming up... Coming to your galaxy this month!

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Alright, after a week of exams and drilling teeth from 9 in the morning to 10 in the evening, I finally have some free time to finish TESB! I'm 99,9% sure I'll be uploading by saturday. It turned out damn well (if I may say so myself).

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Originally posted by: Knightmessenger
Were those screencaps from russ15 from Pal vhs tapes?


They were from the Moth3r PAL ANH.

The same "burn" marks were on the PAL VHS tapes - Fullscreen and Widescreen - on the THX 1994 and 1995 releases.

The Citizen version had the same marks too............

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Got the discs today, it looks really sharp! I like that there is english subtitles on the disc, you might want to watch it late at night without disturbing the neighbours

Thanks a lot Grinder, hope the rest of the trilogy turns out just as good!

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Alright, I'm glad they arrived, I was starting to get a bit worried. And it's good to know I'm not the only one enjoying the subtitles. To everyone else: TESB is currently being uploaded to a.b.starwars, look for "Grinder's Star Wars Original Trilogy - Episode V". I have a new payserver account, so the post will be 100% complete this time. Enjoy! And let's hear some reactions.

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grinder I personally cannot what for your release of rotj as it was my fave as a kid and I still have fond memories of seeing it in it's 1985 re-release.

It had a profound effect on my imagination just as it began to flourish and open out in my youth.

It forever changed the way I viewed science fiction and fantasy, and sword and sorcery epics as I'd loved them all as a young kid of the eighties.

“Always loved Vader’s wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin’s ghost. What a fucking shame.” -Simon Pegg.

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Originally posted by: Grinder
I finally have some free time to finish TESB! It turned out damn well (if I may say so myself).


Having got a handfull or rar files and done the old "rename a rar as a vob file and open it in PowerDVD" trick, I have to agree that it does appear to have turned out damn well!!

I just have to wait for 90 odd more files to arrive now!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Good trick russs15 - but don't forget that VLC player (whilst being able to play nigh on everything under the sun anyway !) can play RAR files from source ! No need to rename

BTW - hugely looking forward to seeing your release Grinder ! ESB is nearly done...
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Hey Grinder, any news? You know I am looking forward to see your ESB and ROTJ. And again, it is great to see that you put subtitles on as well.

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The week after next week I'm free, then I'll have plenty of time to do ROTJ. So in about two weeks it'll be done.

P.S. This is a professor of a friend of mine who studies physics, somehow he bares an incredible resemblence to...

http://www.ru.nl/contents/pages/30438/adriaan.jpg

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