Harmy's RETURN OF THE JEDI Despecialized Edition HD - V3.1 — Page 35

Infoseek or get out.

Highway 61 for me!

Has anyone else even heard of this one?

Just wanted to say thanks to all the people involved in this preservation projects. You all are doing an amazing job.

Best!

Hello Harmy.  I had to make an account so I could express my thanks to you for all of the hard work you have done to restore these great films to their former glory.  I was introduced to Star Wars at the age of seven with the 1997 versions on VHS and it wasn't until I was ten that I got to see the original versions, also on VHS.  Several years after that, I learned about how extreme the measures are that Lucas has taken over the years to erase the original, groundbreaking versions from existence and permanently replace them with the altered versions that look half-cartoonish because of all the dated 1990s CGI that were added to them.  I was absolutely infuriated.

At this point in time, I only had the 2004 DVDs.  Wanting the original versions more than ever, I bought widescreen VHS tapes of the unaltered versions from Amazon and, even later, got the 2006 DVDs.  Later still, I found out about the Despecialized Editions.  I just recently figured out how to obtain them and I watched the first two a few weeks ago.  I finally got around to watching Return of the Jedi tonight.

All I can say is Job Well Done.  Words cannot express my gratitude to you for your efforts to undo all of the horrendous changes made by Lucasfilm that have ruined these movies.  You are a rebel who is doing the job of the evil Lucasfilm empire for them. By making the Despecialized Editions, you are helping to preserve three of the most important landmarks in film history.

I burned the Despecialized Editions to some DVDs (I don't have a Blu-Ray player) and they are now three of the best DVDs in my collection.  I can finally retire my VHS tapes and GOUT discs.  The Despecialized Editions are THE versions for theatrical version purists to have.  I have a younger cousin who, to my knowledge, has never seen any of the Star Wars films in their entirety.  If I am ever able to convince her to watch them, your versions are the ones I will show her.

I will be enjoying the Despecialized Editions on DVD and in HD on my computer for many years to come.  Thank you very much.

P.S.  Will there be any restoration documentaries for Empire and Jedi?  The ones made for the original film were excellent.

This is amazing work, I'd given up hope of ever being able to see the Star Wars I remember again!

I'm a complete novice at this so would appreciate a bit of help/advice.

I have burnt the ESB and SW avchd versions to 8.5gb dual layer dvd, but ROTJ keeps coming back as too large. I'm assuming this is because the first two are .iso files whilst ROTJ isn't. I'm also assuming that the new version of ROTJ will address this when it is ready.

Am I right? And is there anyway to burn the 1.0 avchd version to a single DVD?

Where can i get a link to the torrent files?

I want the ~20G files.

Is this possible?

Die hard fan!!!

Harmy said:

After a bit of a hiatus, I finally started working on ROTJ v2.0. Here's a first look :-)

 My mouth is watering!  :D

I'm curious...will the audio sync problem be fixed on the 2.0 version? Or will it be the same as v1.0?

Woohoo! Thanks to the team who obviously contributed too!

Harmy said:

Oh, yeah - how rude of me - big thanks to Team Negative 1 on this!!! :-)

 No problem. There will be more coming soon. Hope you enjoyed the previews.

Team Negative1

Awesome news.

Merry Christmas to you all.

Brilliant! Looking forward to v2! I want to burn a "definitive" OOT blu ray set built from the mkvs, so it'll be nice once this is out. In the mean time, I've got the DVD9 versions of all the latest that I want to watch with my friend on the 6th of January. I'm pretty sure he's only seen the 2011 version, so I'm excited to see his reaction. Even though 1.0 here isn't 100% and has some weird eyebrows in it, I'll still take it any day over the latest tweaks.

Speaking of the mkvs though, is there a reason the subtitles are included in srt format instead of sub? I thought the sub versions were the correct ones to use for viewing, and the srts are just there for tweaking or translating your own..? Not a big deal and I've downloaded the others separately; I'm just wondering what the reasoning was in advance of this release... unless I'm missing something.