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Info Wanted: Your Favorite OT Preservation Project And Why?

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Star Wars: Deleted Magic

focuses on the deleted scenes of the OT that have been fixed up and have documentry about it.
"A Jedi can feel the force flow through him".
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I'm not sure really. Any of them like 'deleted magic' that gather together bits and pieces that are currently strewn across the know universe and difficult to find gets my vote.
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Darth Editious. He will be finding my appreciation in PayPal here very soon.
The Jedi are all but extinct.......
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Of course the X0 project. It's to bring the best possible quality from laserdisc to DVD.

A new release of Star Wars is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get.

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The EditDroid set is, pound for pound, the best preservation set I've seen so far.

I love the menus, the isoloated score, the recreated '77 crawl on Star Wars...it's awesome!

When I watch the discs, I get the sense that I am watching an 'official' release, as if the DVD format was around 'back then' they would have looked like this.

The project I am most interested in is, of course, the XO project. I just wish I could get a time machine so I could see the set now! (Maybe I'll ask Kip - I reckon he knows a lot about cyberspace).

And I agree - the Deleted Magic disc is quite possibly the most loving tribute to Star Wars I've seen - it simply rocks.
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It has got to be XO. Going throught these films frame by frame is the one undertaking that nobody has been willing to try, and it will no doubt set the XO transfers high atop mount olympus when they are finished. I like to think of this project as the rapture for OT fans. We don't know when it will be finished and it will likely take a long while, but when it is complete it will be the like the second coming of the OT in all of its glory (the first coming of course being on the big screen). Though many have argued that the second coming was the release of the Definitive Collection laserdisc set, I have to respectfully disagree. I cannot classify them as the OT "in its full glory" because you have to change discs during the film. Once I crack the first beer I am not moving my ass until the final credits.

HARMY RULES

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it is so hard to pick just one project.

i love deleted magic because it really does something new with not just Star Wars, but with the way we watch movies period--it's a new form of documentary on filmmaking that's exciting to see and has lots of meaty bits.

i love my editdroid set because it is a fantastic presentation of the OOT with lots of bells and whistles, and it lets me relive the movies as I experienced them growing up.

i am psyched and prepared to love the XO project because these movies in their original form DESERVE the highest level of attention and care possible to preserve them, and if LFL can't be bothered, i am happy there are fans with the resources and passion to do the work.

i even love very much all those intrepid fans who took the time and dedication to compile releases with all the vast bits and pieces of video floating out there for the OT--the making-of specials, the talk show appearances, the guest spots. this stuff is some of my favorite SW video out there and it is always such a thrill when I find something new, like the babyhum releases or rikter's fantastic discs.

most of all, i want to use this as an excuse to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who works so hard on this stuff. you guys are doing really great, really important work that fans like me appreciate very much.
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Hey Rob, laserdisc players are cheap, you could just chain up five of them and a five way video switcher and switch between them with your remote when the disc ends :^)

I finally finished watching all of deleted magic last night, thanks again ocp, I really enjoyed it. Cutting the other footage and info in while the movie soundtrack continued to play was just genius. Great stuff.

Gotta say, the original ending it is deasd right that Luke's shot has very little impact, you feel he could go back and take another 20 runs at it until he got it right, whereas with the DS about to fire on the rebel base, it ramps the excitement up immeasurably.

Unfortunately the 'lost cut' with all the wordiness and lack of multiple tension lines feels a lot like the prequels..
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Laserman

I would have taken you up on that suggestion a couple of years ago but my living room is now completely covered in my daughters baby toys. At this point I am lucky that my wife even lets me keep my turntable and my dvd player in there. If she caught me setting up five laserdisc players I am pretty sure that she would kill me in my sleep.

HARMY RULES

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So many choices, it is a very tough decision to make.

When it comes to documentaries, my Favorite OT Preservation Project is Deleted Magic because of the way they show how the film could have been and then again, the filmmaking lesson.

My favorite Episode 4 preservation dvd is Editdroid, like TheCassidy and DarthAstuart wrote, it is as if it was an original release, the bells and whistles that comes with it, and also the crawl not showing episode 4 A New Hope felt as if it was 1977. It did a great effect on me.

When it comes to episode 5 and 6, I have to go with the ISOMIX set, call me weird if you want, the reason why my vote goes to ISOMIX for episode 5 and 6, it is because when we put the isolated score on , we have the possibility to put the subtitle on and it gives me the impression that I am watching a silent movie, the EDITDROID set would be perfect if we had that option on, because with the Editdroid set, we only have the possibility to put either the score on , or the movie, so ISOMIX is earning more points in my book because of that possibility.

When it comes to video/audio quality I have to go with the moth3r set, it is almost perfection.

I am looking forward to the Project X0 set, I have seen the prototype, the prototype is great, I can't wait to see the final project.
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I would say X0, but since it probably won't be for public consumption until ~2007, my vote goes to EditDroid.
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The Deleted Magic Project and all the Babyhum projects because Babyhum releases a lot of rare documentaries like the clapperboard or the How to film the Impossible, never before seen.
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Deleted was certainly one of my favourites. But you have to give credit to Babyhum for unearthing those old doco's like How to Film the Impossible (I have the UK version it on a very old VHS) and Clapperboard - which I had never seen before.

However, I think all the work people are doing here is worthwhile.

Keep it up!

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