Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released) — Page 478

AntcuFaalb said:

Zer0Squared said:

AntcuFaalb said:

towne32 said:

I don't see why it should be surprising that the very same people on a forum to discuss fanedits want to watch said fanedits. I do find it surprising that such a private site is a main distribution mechanism. But I suppose there are a lot of hit-and-runners when it comes to things like this, and any private site would be abused by large swarms of "an-edit fans, while public sites obviously leave uploaders as more accessible targets.

It's not about hit-and-runners and p2p politics.

It's about keeping OT.com alive and reducing the likelihood of receiving a C&D letter. Believe it or not, a few of our members have received such a letter in the past.

Well, it's already been stated above that they can be found on piratebay as well as someone offering usenet access to get them so - I don't see where the problem lies.

I wasn't trying to argue for or against any particular side with my post. I was just trying to remove concern about hit-and-runners from the discussion while reminding everyone why many members here choose to use a private BitTorrent tracker as their primary distribution mechanism.

 Yes, indeed. I was just speculating as to possible reasons.

If it comes down to distribution, which makes sense, I certainly see why the initial release should be somewhere private (though there are other sites that require membership that is not quite so impossible to get into). And the disassociation of OT with any site of distribution is what I would expect. It's even more stringent at fanedit.org and other places.

But given that not everyone who wants an invite can get one, it is nice when things are re-hosted elsewhere. I would, in theory, probably do that on other private trackers that allow fanedits. But there are obvious risks with the major public ones if you're in certain countries and not using a VPN, etc.

I don't know much about spleen. So I was mainly questioning it as the primary private tracker of interest. What I meant about "hit and runners", is that any private site with wide-scale inviting or even a temporarily open membership could seem like a good option. But the invites dry up and the memberships close when you have a mass influx of people who grab one thing and let their accounts expire. And then you still end up in a situation where people are asking/begging out in the open.

All that said, I found all of Harmy's non-workprint releases using google and a few hours of bandwidth.

edit: and thanks for the conversation and not just coming down on me for questioning things. :)

poita said:

Feallan said:

jdryyz said:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/05/could-disney-finally-give-us-the-remastered-unedited-star-wars-we-want/

Could Disney, in theory, clean up OT negatives, scan them in 4K, 8K or whatever and then just put it in storage for foreseeable future?

 They have already been scanned. Look at the changed scenes in the SE. Most of them are based on a scan of the OT, with SE crap *added*.

So Lucas was being a bit misleading, at the very least, the elements had been scanned prior to the real restoration work happening.

 But have they been scanned at 4K or better? I thought George Lucas settled for a much lower resolution when scanning the films.

But have they been scanned at 4K or better? I thought George Lucas settled for a much lower resolution when scanning the films.

They'd have to be scanned again, and that's not trivial but as the article says the main work is cleaning up the film itself and that's already been done.

I'm ever grateful for living near one of the nicest theaters in the country...  That and the fact it was built well enough to take minimal damage from the EF-5 tornado that passed not a few dozen yards/meters by it (a year ago next week, actually)...

Does anyone know when the ESB Despecialized 2.5 is set to release? I just finished watching the Star Wars 2.5 and I was so impressed! I can't wait to see the rest of the OT in such pristine original-ness :)

dwightmccarthy said:

TV's Frink said:

dwightmccarthy said:

FrankT said:

Try the 'spleen, if you've been invited.

If an invite the Spleen is around, I would be extremely grateful.

 Ha-ha, this was such a predictable post.

 Really not sure what you mean. I have tried a number of different routes, all to no avail. If I was not genuine in my interest for the project and the film, I would not have gone through the effort to ask here. No need to be elitist. This is supposed to be a fan project, and I am a fan who has had difficulty accessing this project. 

 Elitist?  Hah!  I think that having it on a site that requires invites is almost as annoying as people requesting invites in a thread meant for discussing the project.  Read the first post in this thread.

towne32 said:

TV's Frink said:

dwightmccarthy said:

FrankT said:

Try the 'spleen, if you've been invited.

If an invite the Spleen is around, I would be extremely grateful.

 Ha-ha, this was such a predictable post.

 I don't mean to offend someone who actually does work here, but this one was absolutely predictable and unhelpful as well.

I don't see why it should be surprising that the very same people on a forum to discuss fanedits want to watch said fanedits. I do find it surprising that such a private site is a main distribution mechanism. But I suppose there are a lot of hit-and-runners when it comes to things like this, and any private site would be abused by large swarms of "an-edit fans, while public sites obviously leave uploaders as more accessible targets.

 See above.