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I thought I’d begin a thread of my own, as long as we now have a section for preservation and fan edits.

First up: Has anyone here even considered doing a DVD-R preservation of the complete, chronologial “The Godfather”? I’m considering this for next year, using all known footage and, where possible, the DVDs and VHS releases. Only my version would be called “La Costa Nostra–The Complete Godfather Epic: 1901-1980”.

I mention this because this past week the Spike channel ran “The Godfather Saga” (the first two movies edited together).

“Hear you nothing that I say?”
-Yoda

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With the upcoming HD-DVD and/or Blu-rau technology, one could actually edit all three parts of the Godfather series together into one film, and it be of above perfect quality. I had suggested the idea with the star wars films on here recently.
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One of the more easy trilogies to edit together into a single film would be Back to the Future - and could look ok on a dual layer disc if encoded with a high number of variable bitrate passes, although you might do better to use the NTSC DVDs because I have a suspicion they did not so good audio pitch correction on the PAL DVDs...
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Originally posted by: Adamwankenobi
With the upcoming HD-DVD and/or Blu-rau technology, one could actually edit all three parts of the Godfather series together into one film, and it be of above perfect quality. I had suggested the idea with the star wars films on here recently.

Above perfect quality - wow, that sounds really unique.

But seriously, folks... hiphats, I would assume that you'd want to make your Godfather disc widescreen. As far as I know, the extra "Saga" material has only ever been released in pan & scan. Besides this, like so many extended and/or director's cut versions, I think the (ahem) original theatrical (ahem) version is actually better.

P.S. Does anyone else dislike the term "fullscreen"?
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eliasbboy also made an attempt to convert a laserdisc of another chronological recut of The Godfather Saga but ultimately failed I believe. You can read about his attempt over at the thread titled "other ld-rips to dvd movies ex. blade runner int cut, songs of the south, frighteners dir cut"