Harmy's RETURN OF THE JEDI Despecialized Edition HD - V3.1 — Page 147

I’ve been searching for a better Star Wars trilogy, on-and-off, since 1997, back when I naively thought the Special Editions were just an alternate cut that I could simply avoid buying when the OT was inevitably released on the then-new DVD format. And I waited, and waited, and waited… I eventually bought a set of CowClops DVDs of the Definitive Collection Laserdiscs from some disreputable bootlegger. And as it became clearer that Star Wars was never going to get a true DVD-quality release, and the prequels drove the point home that Star Wars and I were parting ways, I sort of stopped for a few years. I gave up looking for Star Wars.

Until I had kids. Then I broke out the Laserdisc transfers again and thought… this isn’t going to cut it. So I found this place, found dark_jedi’s GOUT upscales, which were only marginally better than the Laserdisc transfers I already had, but they were anamorphic! And I could watch Star Wars without the 1993 audio! And then Harmy came along, and negative1, both of them with crazy ideas that could never work, not with the resources we had, and I started searching again, looking for that better trilogy.

But something important just happened. I’m not searching for a new, improved Return of the Jedi anymore. For the first time since 1997, I’m actually entirely satisfied with the video options I have. I don’t feel the need to look anymore, and that’s a truly odd sensation after so many years.

Well, I’m entirely satisfied with Jedi at least. Still searching for the other two 😉

Harmy is the Chosen One

Harmy, this looks fantastic! Have you done this sort of thing before? ;D

Harmy makes me a happy boy. Saving this gem for a watch in the coming weekend.

Downloaded the torrent yesterday, have soon seeded 250GB. Sharing is caring!

niko said:

Hey is it possible to get an older version of HanDuets guide which uses FreeRapidDownloader and the Unarchiver, I’m on Mac. Thanks

I downloaded it on Mac using uTorrent took about 30 mins total.
Check it out it’s free.

niko said:

Ye I probably should have just done that but I’m already committed to the RAR download so just need the steps on how to properly extract it once it finishes downloading

Why do you need an older version? Just use the unarchiver once downloaded?

niko said:

That guy with no name said:

Why do you need an older version? Just use the unarchiver once downloaded?

I just want an older version of the google doc because I forget how to use the Unarchiver 🥺

Once you’ve downloaded all the files, even if out of sync. Right click on the first one and press “open with” then click unarchiver. (Only right click one file, Don’t highlight all of them) Then unarchiver will do its thing and wham! Return of the Jedi!

Harmy said:

The 1080p version is designed for a BD25, if you keep only the English audio and one or two dubs.

The 2160p version is over 40GB just for the video.

Any recommendations for BD50 blanks?

Doctor M said:

Harmy said:

The 1080p version is designed for a BD25, if you keep only the English audio and one or two dubs.

The 2160p version is over 40GB just for the video.

Any recommendations for BD50 blanks?

For this one? Verbatim M-disc. It’s gonna be passed down like a family heirloom.

CatBus said:

Doctor M said:

Harmy said:

The 1080p version is designed for a BD25, if you keep only the English audio and one or two dubs.

The 2160p version is over 40GB just for the video.

Any recommendations for BD50 blanks?

For this one? Verbatim M-disc. It’s gonna be passed down like a family heirloom.

Until version 3.2. 😃

I copied it to a network HDD dock and took a look at it… and I hate to be the first to complain about this amazing piece of work, but it looks like the grain was scrubbed and then fake grain was added.
Was that the 4k source or am I hallucinating?

Doctor M said:

CatBus said:

Doctor M said:

Harmy said:

The 1080p version is designed for a BD25, if you keep only the English audio and one or two dubs.

The 2160p version is over 40GB just for the video.

Any recommendations for BD50 blanks?

For this one? Verbatim M-disc. It’s gonna be passed down like a family heirloom.

Until version 3.2. 😃

Not for me. I’m stepping off the upgrade train, 3.1 is my final stop. I can’t imagine what I’d upgrade for at this point.

I copied it to a network HDD dock and took a look at it… and I hate to be the first to complain about this amazing piece of work, but it looks like the grain was scrubbed and then fake grain was added.
Was that the 4k source or am I hallucinating?

That’s almost certainly exactly what happened. The primary 4K source (UHD disc) was heavily grain-scrubbed. To make that blend with 4K83-sourced footage, I have to think fake grain would be involved.

niko said:

Ye I probably should have just done that but I’m already committed to the RAR download so just need the steps on how to properly extract it once it finishes downloading

That guy with no name said:

niko said:

I just want an older version of the google doc because I forget how to use the Unarchiver 🥺

Once you’ve downloaded all the files, even if out of sync. Right click on the first one and press “open with” then click unarchiver. (Only right click one file, Don’t highlight all of them) Then unarchiver will do its thing and wham! Return of the Jedi!

Glad it sounds like things were all sorted! I’ll consider adding back in a few more details about manual extraction of the multipart RAR files. Note that the new recommended download manager, JDownloader 2, should take care of the extraction, although I haven’t verified that this works on macOS.

P.S. I do archive each version of my guide, so if anyone truly needs info from an older version, send me a PM on these forums and I’ll send a shared link!

HanDuet said:

niko said:

Ye I probably should have just done that but I’m already committed to the RAR download so just need the steps on how to properly extract it once it finishes downloading

That guy with no name said:

niko said:

I just want an older version of the google doc because I forget how to use the Unarchiver 🥺

Once you’ve downloaded all the files, even if out of sync. Right click on the first one and press “open with” then click unarchiver. (Only right click one file, Don’t highlight all of them) Then unarchiver will do its thing and wham! Return of the Jedi!

Glad it sounds like things were all sorted! I’ll consider adding back in a few more details about manual extraction of the multipart RAR files. Note that the new recommended download manager, JDownloader 2, should take care of the extraction, although I haven’t verified that this works on macOS.

P.S. I do archive each version of my guide, so if anyone truly needs info from an older version, send me a PM on these forums and I’ll send a shared link!

It does work on macOS, I guess some people just prefer not to use it 🤷‍♂️

MarkM said:

CatBus said:

Verified, I burned this to a BD-50 and played it back in a hardware player. It’s glorious.

Do you mind sharing which authoring tool you used? tsMuxer is my go-to, but as you mention it is having fits with this one.

tsMuxer is what I used. You just have to be careful to keep the audio and subtitle options to a sane level. 32 audio/32 subtitle is the hard limit, but really that’s still too much if you have multiple lossless tracks. I only did one lossless track, to cut down on max bitrate. You could probably get away with more.

digitalfreaknyc said:

Doctor M said:

CatBus said:

Doctor M said:

Harmy said:

The 1080p version is designed for a BD25, if you keep only the English audio and one or two dubs.

The 2160p version is over 40GB just for the video.

Any recommendations for BD50 blanks?

For this one? Verbatim M-disc. It’s gonna be passed down like a family heirloom.

Until version 3.2. 😃

I copied it to a network HDD dock and took a look at it… and I hate to be the first to complain about this amazing piece of work, but it looks like the grain was scrubbed and then fake grain was added.
Was that the 4k source or am I hallucinating?

Thank you for saving me the trouble of downloading. I’ll stick with D+83.

For those unable to detect the snark, D+83 (OTD83) uses the same sources as Despecialized, with the same issues. If you’re happy with OTD83, you’ll be delighted with Despecialized.

Doctor M said:

CatBus said:

Doctor M said:

Harmy said:

The 1080p version is designed for a BD25, if you keep only the English audio and one or two dubs.

The 2160p version is over 40GB just for the video.

Any recommendations for BD50 blanks?

For this one? Verbatim M-disc. It’s gonna be passed down like a family heirloom.

Until version 3.2. 😃

I copied it to a network HDD dock and took a look at it… and I hate to be the first to complain about this amazing piece of work, but it looks like the grain was scrubbed and then fake grain was added.
Was that the 4k source or am I hallucinating?

No, that’s just how the 4k Blu-ray looks, It’s scrubbed to smithereens… and has so much static grain. Harmy did the best he could to restore the original look. and I’m pretty sure that the grain he added is authentic 35mm is it not? also, how do you not know that at this point? Bad DNR was one of the 2020 Blu-ray’s first issues discussed here.