Star Wars coming to Blu Ray (UPDATE: August 30 2011, No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!) — Page 259

Johnny Ringo said:

I wonder how things would have played out if Marquand / Kershner had decided to do special editions of their own.

 

It's funny just how much Star Wars has changed in my eyes over the last seven years. When the 2004 dvd set came out, I was pretty psyched.

2006 is when it really started going downhill for me. That day in May of '06 when I read confirmation from Bill Hunt at thedigitalbits that the unaltered Star Wars trilogy would in fact be from the laserdisc masters and that Jim Ward's comment about "state of the art, 1993" was quite literal .... oh boy, I lost a lot of respect for Lucasfilm. I would've rather they put out nothing at all than shovel obsolete transfers whilst acting like they were doing us a favor. It was just insulting.

Of course, I had become an avid collector of the comics around 2005 and kept doing so for a while after that, but I must've stopped a couple years ago because I literally can't remember the last time I bought anything Star Wars related.

Just as an aside, a neat little 'what if' I came across on the 'Revisited' Facebook page the other day, was this idea by 'The Cutter', that I'd like to share with anyone who missed it.  It's a small antidote to all the recent reminders of Vader's 'NOOOOOoooooooooo!' near the end of ROTS. ;)

As a recap, the actual 'birth of Vader' scene starts at 4 mins. 01 secs. into this clip -  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPTr6nfQ7RI

...but things would have come across a little differently if the end of the scene had been done something along these lines instead! -  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GvpT_7BMAc

(I'd quite like to see 'The Cutter's' version starting immediately after Vader asks "Where is Padme?", so that we'd then cut to the Emperor replying "It seems in your anger you killed her", then continue his version, but show the original full footage of Vader breaking free and stepping forward, before then having the Emperor 'cackle' as his close-up fades to the wipe of the Tantive IV...discarding the long shot of Vader yelling 'NOOOOOoooooooooo!)

skyjedi2005 said:

But the whole marketed gimmick was that they did brand new HD audio mixes.

Source?

What 005 said.

Right, the only difference is that there's a discrete center surround this time instead of a matrixed one.

highdefdigest has restarted their poll

http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/star-wars-poll2/

This post includes shots of a change to the Jedi speed run from the beginning of TPM.  This is one that really needs to be seen in motion, but if done right I support this - the original effect was so unconvincing, I didn't even realize what they were going for.

ImperialFighter said:

As a recap, the actual 'birth of Vader' scene starts at 4 mins. 01 secs. into this clip -  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPTr6nfQ7RI

...but things would have come across a little differently if the end of the scene had been done something along these lines instead! -  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GvpT_7BMAc

 

Not bad, but I heard the description of Vader's thought process is elaborated pretty well in the novel (something like he's trying to reach out and kill Palps, but realizes he's the only person he has left).

I can never get MF.com to load - what are the new changes to TPM?

SteveE wrote: what are the new changes to TPM?

Courtesy of the advanced scouts on MF.com & HomeTheaterForum.com (http://www.millenniumfalcon.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=9082)

The Phantom Menace (In Progress)

1. Quote: "With this restoration, we went back to the original digital files for Episode I, not the film apps, to go through and really check every frame to make sure they were restored.  We were also much more selective about minimizing that blow-up, so we have more of that image to see." http://www.hometheaterforum.com/t/314096/lucasfilm-on-star-wars-the-complete-saga-blu-ray-hands-on-report http://cdn.hometheaterforum.com/6/6f/1000x500px-LL-6fb1fbfe_tnep1.r4.OLD.LRG.jpeg http://cdn.hometheaterforum.com/6/6f/1000x500px-LL-6f704148_tnep1.r4.NEW.LRG.jpeg 
2. Recomped crawl against the starfield. http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/8222/starwarsepisodeithephan.png http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/7017/starwarsepisode1thephan.png
3. New Jedi speed effect.http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/8222/starwarsepisodeithephan.png http://img847.imageshack.us/img847/7017/starwarsepisode1thephan.th.png http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/5177/starwarsepisodeithephani.png http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/7017/starwarsepisode1thephan.png
4. Neimoidian viewscreen. http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/5177/starwarsepisodeithephani.png http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/7017/starwarsepisode1thephan.png
   
5.  noticeable audio addition of some alien gibberish during Jabba's introduction
6. Coruscant sunset.http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/8222/starwarsepisodeithephan.png http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/5034/starwarsepisode1thephanw.png
7. An example of many color adjusted shots. http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/7032/starwarsepisodeithephanx.th.png http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/7017/starwarsepisode1thephan.th.png
8. Digital Yoda replaces puppet http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/7017/starwarsepisode1thephan.th.png http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/7017/starwarsepisode1thephan.png http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/7017/starwarsepisode1thephan.th.png http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/7017/starwarsepisode1thephan.th.png http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/7017/starwarsepisode1thephan.th.png http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/7017/starwarsepisode1thephan.th.png http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/7017/starwarsepisode1thephan.th.png http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/7017/starwarsepisode1thephan.th.png

^ Good to know.  I'm just copying info into a draft for either a new topic or awaiting someone to start the Prequel Change thread.

Why the teal shift?  

http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/6260/starwarsepisodeiiattack.png

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/6058/starwarsepisode2attacko.png

TV's Frink said:

This post includes shots of a change to the Jedi speed run from the beginning of TPM.  This is one that really needs to be seen in motion, but if done right I support this - the original effect was so unconvincing, I didn't even realize what they were going for.

Interesting, though from those screenshots I'm more curious as to why there now seems to be a tealish-blue tint throughout the video of AOTC....

EDIT:

My question exactly.