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The Star Wars Holiday Special - Torrent is still up and running!

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Awesome.

I just imported it to my client. Processing now.
Loading at 5 KB/S so far.

Great idea Rikter; importing it as a torrent file. I look forward to the Ewok films and other stuff you got.

I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently.

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I hate to do this but my bootleg version is MUCH better than the DVD I got from Rikter. The quality that I got was horrendous. Not to mention the fact that there is more than 2 hours of footage on this DVD which can severely reduce the quality. I'm giong to put the version I have on VHS to DVD-R.
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Awesome, I've been looking for the Holiday Special for ages. Downloading at 300kb/sec too! Nice

What other cool Star Wars treats do you have for us?
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Um... The Holiday Special was a little before my time... (then again so is star wars in general, but ignore that for the moment)

So can someone explain why it sucks so much?

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Originally posted by: digitalfreaknyc
I hate to do this but my bootleg version is MUCH better than the DVD I got from Rikter. The quality that I got was horrendous. Not to mention the fact that there is more than 2 hours of footage on this DVD which can severely reduce the quality. I'm giong to put the version I have on VHS to DVD-R.


Can't wait to see it

“My skill are no longer as Mad as the once were” RiK

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Ahh... the download is finally done.

But I'm not sure if I really want to see it again. The first time was enough. Course the wole file size was about 25 MB and you couldn't tell Chewie from a Star Destroyer.

I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently.

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The first time was enough. Course the wole file size was about 25 MB and you couldn't tell Chewie from a Star Destroyer.


Chewie is less Lumpy than a Star Destroyer.
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Originally posted by: digitalfreaknyc
I hate to do this but my bootleg version is MUCH better than the DVD I got from Rikter. The quality that I got was horrendous. Not to mention the fact that there is more than 2 hours of footage on this DVD which can severely reduce the quality. I'm giong to put the version I have on VHS to DVD-R.


Can you describe the version you have? I know the one I've got on DVD-R isn't the "Angrysun" thing Rikter has, so I wonder if it's the same... I would post a screenshot of mine, but my crappy old DVD-ROM doesn't read DVD-Rs... Anyway, here are some characteristics of mine:

- it starts with R/G/B bars visible for about 1/3 second; then, after about two seconds of blackness, the Falcon blasting off into space, with some visible distortion and a few seconds of "wobbling" sound. A huge video player PLAY is visible and disappears as Chewie starts roaring.

- when the transvestite robot cook is shown in closeup, "her" dress is pink; when it's smaller, it looks washed out and is rather like pale violet.

- in the virual porn sequence, just before the naked "angel" sings "How can we lose this minute", or something like that, the zoomed image of her face sort of jumps-jumps-jumps, like a game with very low framerate... I don't know if it's this transfer, or something intentional?

- the "radioactive" instruments held by the gay rock band that the Imperial officer watches are very blurred in many shots and look more like bright pink blobs.

- when the beatnik band plays and one of the Stormtroopers elbows another, a white line "cuts" them for about a second.

- when the dolt pretending to be Tarkin-lite announces a curfew, the picture goes to hell for about a second; there's noise, lines, his face becomes a red blob. It returns to normal as he says "all inhabitants".

- it ends with 20th Century Fox TV logo