Damn, just been catching up on all the posts relating to team negative1 being banned. Don’t know what to say. Can’t say I really understand what happened in terms of who owned the prints/who had the right to use them. I do kinda agree with those like Frink that felt that the team would all too often abuse the use of their team account to post controversial/inflamatory opinions in non-team negative1 related topics, especially relating to whether there would ever be an official release of the OUT. I remember reading those posts and shaking my head, thinking that they weren’t appropriate to post from a team account. A bannable offense? On its own probably not, but I think many could kinda see it coming, it was certainly a factor here I think, regardless of what happened with the prints, the prints were just the last straw it seems.
That said, I’ve seen their Silver Screen Edition of Star Wars and I think team negative1 did a great job and they deserve respect for that from everybody here. To me it is the best version of the theatrical release of Star Wars out there, certainly what I would recommend to anybody wanting to watch the original theatrical release of Star Wars. I really hope that they continue, even if they can’t use the team account anymore, because they were doing great work and it would be a big loss to everyone otherwise.
I think the sooner this whole team negative1/mike verta print business and everybody feeling like they have to choose sides is put to bed the better. I saw mentions of team negative1 having been banned here in The Force Awakens blu-ray thread on blu-ray.com, I have been on a break from everything Star Wars related after finishing the Cinema DTS tracks in December but that’s what brought me back, so keep in mind that many more people are going to lurking here, reading everything and all this squabbling doesn’t look good. This site’s greatest strength has always been its unified front in getting the unaltered Original Trilogy released officially, we look closer than ever to getting that, so now is not the time to be divided. We all want the same thing.
@Spoofy4567: It’s not something i’m considering for the time being, this whole business of using parts taken from 35mm prints has got a lot more risky lately. I’ve seen numerous articles about the Silver Screen Edition now being the best way to watch the original Star Wars, no doubt fueled by the massive success of The Force Awakens. So much publicity about these 35mm Star Wars prints out in the wild is not great. I’ll wait to see how things develop before considering using any parts taken from 35mm prints as a source. I’m very happy with how Yub Nub and Lapti Nek looks on the latest Return of the Jedi Semi-Specialised Editions.
@nafroe: They can be downloaded as seperate tracks on tehparadox. If there’s interest I can put them up on myspleen as well.
@towne32: I think I should be able to get it up on tehparadox this weekend.
@Spoofy4567: Thanks, appreciate that! I should be able to have that up by this weekend. The seperate Cinema DTS 5.1 tracks can be found on tehparadox.
@daileyxplanet: Just checked and I see there are more seeds now. Thank you everybody that helped out there!
@HelpYou’reMyOnlyHope: Not much I can do there, the size is what it is to keep the quality as high as possible. I know that there are 2gb versions of the Semi-Specialised Edtions available on kick ass torrents if you’re interested in those.
@Dek Rollins: Exactly.
@kitt1987: It would probably be easier to download the seperate Cinema DTS tracks from tehparadox.
@MalàStrana: Thanks! Yes, the colour grading is different from what people are used to from watching the reddish sunburnt looking fleshtones of the GOUT release, it shares the most similarity with the colours/fleshtones of the Japanese Laserdisc which I really like but are a bit too yellow for my liking. I remember being very happy with the colour grading of the Star Wars Semi-Specialised Edition V2.2L but i’ll definately give it another look when I get the chance.
@EmEl: There’s no public tracker that i’m aware of that has the full 22gb releases, they’re out on myspleen but of course that is not a public tracker. They can also be found on tehparadox, if you’re a free user you can use the 1fichier links, they’re pretty fast to download from.
@ZaneFlare92: Yeah as MrToad883 said, they all use the blu-ray cuts, primarily to be able to use the dts-hd audio tracks on the blu-ray.
@efraga: Invite sent 😃