Star Wars HD coming in November! All SIX movies! — Page 3

Originally posted by: s7en
Looks like someones started posting a version of it to the newsgroups (the logical one for hdtv - am i allowed to name it or is that forbidden?):
"Star Wars - Episode 4 : A New Hope. (1920x1080i h264-to-mpeg-2 reencode)"Episode IV reencode"

Originally posted by: Dunedain
Watching it on a set top HD-DVD or Blu-Ray movie player would eliminate any need to worry about handling H264 encoded video, and no video quality would have to be lost. I assume the original H264 encoded version was kept for backup purposes.

Zeromancer: You mean like when aliens are speaking that is all printed in German right in the picture area itself (not in the bottom black bar), but the human voices are all in English?

Originally posted by: Dunedain
Hmm, too bad about all the voices being in German. Plus PAL movies are speeded up, so that messes up the video and audio. But it certainly doesn't affect the screencaps, they look super!

I sure hope the HD broadcast of all the Star Wars movies coming up on Cinemax will look this great! Get your HD digital video recorders ready, guys. This is our (maybe only) chance to get all 6 Star Wars movies recorded in HD without any further changes (even more changes to the movies may come in the 30th anniversary set). And please record and then back them all up at max quality, so the full unaltered video and audio quality of the original HD cable presentation is preserved. Once we have safe backup copies of all 6 movies on Blu-Ray BD-R disks in full HD quality that will play on any standard Blu-Ray set top movie player, they can never be lost or deteriorate and we can watch them any time.

Originally posted by: Dunedain
Hey, if you prefer HD-DVD, then record the movies onto dual-layer HD-DVD disks then. This isn't about which format one prefers, as long as the full quality of the Cinemax broadcast is captured and preserved. What do you mean it can't be recorded from Cinemax, no one else has mentioned any such thing? The German t.v. broadcast of A New Hope in 1080 HD which that fan on the other forum recorded works just fine according to him, and it looks superb. So why couldn't the same thing be done with the Cinemax HD presentation?

Originally posted by: Dunedain
It was posted on the site with the screencaps that the Cinemax broadcast might be in 1080, if that's the case and they use good bit-rates, then I figured it might go past 15 gig, in which case you either have to use a dual-layer HD-DVD disk or a single-layer Blu-Ray disk to have it on a disk you can play in a HD player. And full quality in this context obviously means the full quality that they broadcast the Star Wars movies at in HD on Cinemax, whatever that level of quality turns out to be. It depends on the res they use and the bit-rate, that won't be known for sure until they actually broadcast it, I guess. Anyhow, that fan on the other site seemingly had no problem recording the German broadcast of the HD version of A New Hope off his t.v., so apparently that wasn't encrypted. Hopefully it can be done here, too, in one way or another.

Originally posted by: digitalfreaknyc



As someone who downloads HD movies all the time, you wouldn't need more than 15gb.

And what channel was it shown in Germany? They don't have the same encryption that we have.

I'd rather stick with my SD-DVD's than watch something with PAL speed-up. Luckily, the HD formats do away with it.

Originally posted by: s7en
Now this is more like it. Someones posted the original H264 version at alt.binaries.hdtv.repost

"Titel...............................: Star.Wars.Episode.4.Eine.Neue.Hoffnung.HDTV.1080i.H264.German.AC3.DL
Erscheinungsdatum...................: 1977
Format (MPEG 4,H.264/AVC)...........: MKV / Mpeg4 AVC
Codec...............................: H264
Formatinfos (Aufloesung/FPS/etc. )..: 1920x1080 interlaced / 25 FPS
Source..............................: 1080i H264 TS / AC3 German : PAL DVD
Soundformat.........................: AC3 Dolby Digital 5.1 / 2.0
Videobitrate........................: 12336 Kbps Average
Audiobitrate........................: 448 kbps
FSK.................................: 12
Sprachen............................: German / English
Untertitel..........................: -
Spieldauer..........................: 1H 59Min 37Sec"

And Karyudo's right about the filesize, this one's less than half size of the MPG2 recode version.

Originally posted by: Marvolo
The behind the scenes material is the web docs the were released with the retail DVD's.

Eagerly awaiting torrent.....