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Mark Hamill said:

I said to George that I wanted to go back to the way it was, in the sense that ours was much more carefree and lighthearted and humorous – in my opinion, anyway....hope they find the right balance of CGI with practical effects. I love props, I love models, miniatures, matte paintings -- I'm sort of old school. I think if you go too far in the direction of CGI it winds up looking like just a giant a video game, and that's unfortunate. … If they listen to me at all, it'll be, 'Lighten up and go retro with the way it looks.'

It's good to know that he thinks like we do.

I agree, chyron8472. The less-blue one definitely looks better.

Does anyone have the R3 or R2J GOUT release?

I’ve heard that the cropping is different, so I’m interested in comparing them to the R1 release to see if anything else is different.

sean wookie said:

My girlfriend cheated on me, so I broke up with her. She wasn't worth it I guess.

Wow, that sucks. I'm sorry... :-(

How'd you find out?

It looks great, boba feta!

vbangle said:

Darth Stewie said:

I love ya man but.... today is 5 years working on this. How about a detailed 5 year update for us? I not only look forward to this but to finally getting into the nuts and bolts of ROTJ:R 

I thought you were full of crap saying this was the five anniversary but dam, I guess it is. 5 years isn't what it used to be.

http://jpagel.net/article/lifeleft.htm

I'm glad to hear you're OK, msycamore. Welcome back!

althor1138 said:

When I think of laser rot I think of a small white streak.  Sometimes it can even be bigger and take up almost a whole line.

When I think of a dropout it's almost the same but is a solid line of pixels and kind of matches a color near to the dropout or is black.

When I think of dirt I think it can be almost any shape or size or color.

 

If this is true then there are very few dropouts in the capture but there is a little bit of rot.

These definitions are fine. One thing I will point out is that drop-outs and speckling are both caused by oxidation of the aluminum layer of the LD, a.k.a., laser rot. Whether you see a speckle or a drop-out depends on how well your player deals with the rot and how bad it is.

Can you try to quantify a "little bit" in this context? If you're willing to invest the time, then you can probably fix each instance of laser rot manually.

althor1138 said:

I really wish I had access to two more sets of the JSC at this point.  I could do a toot between 3 sets for a total of 9 captures and probably eliminate all of the rot and dropouts.

EDIT:  Actually anybody that owns the set and wants to participate can send me their set and I'll send them back to you with your raw capture saved on a stick or something.

Are you sure you're seeing actual drop-outs from laser-rot? The IP used for the JSC is infamously dirty.

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

People need to understand that this is first and foremost a restoration/preservation project - not a distribution project.  It is amazing that it is as easily obtainable as it is.

Agreed.

michaelkirschner said:

Harmy would it be ok to upload the Despecialized edition onto youtube? There are a very large amount of Star Wars fans and classic movie fans in general who would love to see this but may not have the technical expertise or the right equipment in order to burn a DVD. I think that if the Despecialized edition were streamed on youtube it would open up the film to a much wider group of people. I see that Adywan's revisited has been uploaded onto youtube in 13 parts

I don't understand.

If people are willing to put up with YouTube quality, then why don't they just watch the GOUT DVDs?

Also, since when did downloading files and burning DVDs imply that one has "technical expertise"?

althor1138 said:

I'm not interested in syncing to another release.  I just want a presentable digital copy of this release. If anybody wants to use the raw files I can try to make them available on a person to person basis though :).

I was only saying to use that information to help verify whether or not your IVTC was done correctly.

Don't forget to use the reel length information to help with IVTC'ing and GOUT-sync'ing.

You'll know if you IVTC'd correctly or not if you can GOUT-sync reel-by-reel.

Also, keep in mind that the LD might be missing a few frames at the end of each IP reel.

georgec said:

Here's the video. Doesn't look like he's being sarcastic or joking, but I'm not sure, and it doesn't matter anyway.

http://geektyrant.com/news/2013/2/12/william-shatner-says-jj-abrams-is-being-a-pig.html

He certainly seems serious to me!

Jaitea said:

danny_boy said:

.........It was this special edition negative that was scanned completely in 2004 to create the high def masters for DVD and Blu Ray.

As far as I understand Lowry were handed the 2k files of the 97SE versions, which they were expected to clean up.

J

... and they interpreted "clean up" as destroy.

Congrats for giving up smoking recently, adywan!

I can't risk losing these golden posts from our friend, Sam.

I'm going to make a page on my website devoted to him; images and everything!

If anyone's interested, please say so here. I need all the help in gathering material that I can get!

adywan: Please post more, if possible!

Let's use this thread as a repository for our preservation of Sam's writing.

This isn't a democracy, but I vote to keep all of Sam's posts.

That's what this website is about, right? Preservation.

Guys. WTF.

Warbler said:

that guy has some nerve,  he wants you to delete crap he posted?   And why are you giving him a week to get contact info from someone he supposed knows on this site?   Either he is banned or he isn't.    What difference does it make if he knows someone on this site?  But maybe I don't fully understand what is going here.

Either he grew up a little on his own or Mommy forbid him from using WWW forums... :-D

bkev said:

If the WOWOW rip is still around color me interested.

I'd be interested too, even though I have the BD set of the trilogy.

Thanks for the confirmation, Darth Mallwalker.

I'm assuming that this would, of course, apply to captures done using a DVD Recorder, right?

Wouldn't IVTC'ing a 3:2-pulldown'd source captured in YV12 mess up the chroma of the C frame?

(By C I mean: [A|B|C|D](24p) -> [AA|BB|BC|CD|DD](60i).)

Jetrell Fo said:

Did anyone here buy this or own one that maybe they can comment on it's performance?

Thanks

 

I purchased one recently from eBay for $17.25, but I haven't had the time to test it yet.