- Time
- Post link
1) faulty lightsabre colors. (Luke has a green sabre on the Milennium Falcon in SW - ; Vader a pink one in ESB. )
2) picture is too dark (This ruined the trash compactor scene for me - way too dark)
3) colors are way brighter than they ever were. (At first this kinda wowed me - I must admit.)
When the sept. 12 release of the GOUT was announced I was interested because this would mean a chance to experience Star Wars without the above glaring errors. Maybe I would be able to be fully immersed in the films again and really enjoying them.
That said, given a choice between the 2004-SE with perfect colors, brightness and lightsabre colors and the non-anamorphic laserdisc-sourced GOUT, I'd choose the former. Your mileage may vary but the only scene I still don't like in the 2004-SE is the one where Han is chasing stormtroopers in the Death Star and all of a sudden instead of running into a small company of troopers he runs into a full TIE-fighter hangar crawling with stormtroopers. (The first two or three times this scene is funny, then it becomes stale.)
Now on how to love those cursed 2004 dvd's.
1) Raise the brightness a tad. (Make sure the black bars on top and below the image remain black and don't turn grey.)
2) Select the scene with Luke's green sabre. Freeze the frame. Decrease the color on your tv-set till the sabre starts to look white and only sports but the faintest trace of green. (On my Philips-set this meant a decrease in color from 44/100 to 20/100.) Quite a substantial decrease in color - but worth it.
3) Select chapter one and enjoy the show.
Now the 2004 dvd looks (almost) exactly like I remember SW to look in the theatre (color-wise that is.). (A color palette that's also very reminiscent of that of the 2006-GOUT and other laserdics-transfers.)
I've also looked at ESB using the same settings. (Vader's sabre looks normal again (white core - red sides - NOT PINK !!!!!!!!!!!)
After discovering the 2004 dvd's aren't all that bad I decided not to get the 2006-GOUT-edition since my primary motivation for wanting it were the above mentioned color & brightness issues. (If I want to watch the unaltered trilogy I can still watch my 4:3 pan&scan vhs copies I taped from television in 1989.)
Andrew.