Info: Yet another restoration... is it REALLY needed? — Page 2

The French pre-THX discs came from a very poor master, apparently. There was a brief discussion in Citizen's project thread, starting here.

Laserman said:

I have that set, and the quality is bloody awful - not worth the trouble unfortunately.

Someone asked if it was the same case for the German Silver Screen Collection, but this has not yet been answered AFAIK.

The German set cannot be from the same master, as it contains the original German title card and opening crawl.

I'm going to try and grab a German disc off ebay.de and take a look myself.

Ah, OK. Thanks for the info.

Darth Mallwalker said:

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Blam says 1130-05 issued in 1993, but do you see any THX logo on the cover? I don't.
What could it mean ???!?!?!!?!!1!?!1!!111one?!
Somebody buy it

One just went on eBay for a very low price. Unfortunately the seller was overcharging for international postage - I didn't bid.

This is the project I had in my mind: take the best laserdisc OUT versions, merge together to average OR median the multiple captures, upscale them to HD (to make AVCHD and/or BD) just to don't bother with PAL and NTSC DVDs, but to have the best original version of Star Wars in a format available for playing in the PS3 and BD players, whatever country it is played.

During these days I made several test, first with PAL THX laserdiscs, then with the Japanese NTSC Definitive Collection... the latter, despite the lower resolution, is AWESOME when captured from the Pioneer HLD-X9!

Also if the results are encouraging, I decided to not make another restoration. This is because there were many others who made similar things at SD (DVD based on the DC or PAL LDs) and few made them better than what I've acheved upscaling the SD to HD (the AVCHD based projects).

Maybe, after the official BD, IF it will be lower quality than the expected (as usual with our GL) I will think again about this idea...

Now I'm going to start a new thread where I'll offer my audio and video captures to someone who could be interested in.

For everyone involved in a project: GO ON!!! I really appreciate your efforts!

Thanks to everyone for the comments - I'll stay tuned on this forum!

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Thai Panther