AntcuFaalb

SpilkaBilka said:

Threat.

I was thinking of saying that as well, but I doubt that tuxmanv is pat man.

1990osu said:

I was looking for more evidence of George Lucas' talent to combat those who think he is a "talentless hack" and I found this:

Movie

That's from George Lucas: Maker of Films, available on MySpleen.

SilverWook said:

Brooks said:

I miss video rental stores.  It was kind of fun browsing, looking for some old unknown treasure.

I still dream about Dave's Video: The Laser Place. It was probably the best Laserdisc shop in Los Angeles back in the day. I was often overwhelmed by all the movies they had, and would forget what I originally went in there to find!

In short, it was movie geek heaven.  I "borrowed" my Dad's credit card to rent the Japanese CAV letterboxed Star Wars from them in 1988. (After they were featured in an newspaper article about letterboxed movies.) Good times!

http://events.hometheaterforum.com/htfscrapbook/Events.html

Their previous location was cooler looking, with a giant LD painted on the facade. Celebrities were said to do their movie shopping there, but I never bumped into any.

Unfortunately, they didn't adapt with the times when other stores established an online presence in the 90's, and were gone by the new century.

I still have some of their old catalogs stashed away somewhere.

If you look under the THX section you'll find a shot with lightsabers on the monitor!

tuxmanv said:

Get Jar Jar the hell off my fourm

I think you mean thread.

Bingowings said:

Tonight has been the better half F'ing and Blinding at the top of his voice about enzymes and esters (soused again).

What is it about reasonably well educated drunks that makes them marginally more annoying than ignorant ones?

Maybe the fact that he's not conforming to your expectations?

SilverWook said:

I've long wondered if the Ewok battle was toned down in the editing room.

When Ewoks Attack!

TheBoost said:

The interior of Leia's ship is really bright, with white walls, white smoke, and white armored stormtroopers. This looks cool, but also lets the blaster bolts really stand out.

... and Darth Vader.

pittrek said:

AntcuFaalb said:

Video Collector said:

Chomping at the bit to see this. Curious to see how it compares to my boot. Will it be available on the 'spleen soon?

none got it up on Usenet (a.b.starwars) a few weeks ago. I've been trying to upload it to MySpleen, but they keep rejecting my torrent with some weird error. I'm going to try again tonight.

Are you using uTorrent for creating the torrent file ? Because they f***d up something and now it creates non-standard torrent files. I recommend using http://maketorrent.en.softonic.com/ - that one worked perfectly for me when I was creating my torrents

Yes, I am, pittrek.

Thanks for the suggestion! I'm going to try downgrading uTorrent first and, if that doesn't work, move on to MakeTorrent.

Will the opening crawl be considered in your assessment of the opening scene?

Oh, and, STAY JEDI! ;)

timdiggerm said:

AntcuFaalb said:

I have an excellent (thriving!) Blockbuster near me. I live in Columbia, MD.

True, but there used to be like 3 or 4 in the Columbia area.

Source: Former employee of one that doesn't exist anymore.

Well, at least we still have one! :-D

Bester said:

Looks as though Jason Flemyng may have let something slip in a recent interview...

 http://tinyurl.com/blptgym

It appears to be a genuine 'cat out of the bag' moment.  Maybe Millar lied to us about Vaughn being unavailable (wouldn't put it past him).

 

Wow, exciting! I really enjoyed X-Men: First Class.

SilverWook said:

zombie84 said:

You must live in the United States pf Blockbuster Video.

But seriously, the last time Blockbuster mattered was 2004. The company has been effectively dismantled since 2008 or so.

It seems so. I'm sure location and demographics have something to do with it. (The major indie video rental place in the area is also a record shop.)

I've heard some video stores are still rocking with VHS in predominately senior communities. I imagine the new release section is a tad thin?

I have an excellent (thriving!) Blockbuster near me. I live in Columbia, MD.

Man, I used to think that the BLOCKBUSTER EMPIRE would be around forever...

Video Collector said:

Chomping at the bit to see this. Curious to see how it compares to my boot. Will it be available on the 'spleen soon?

none got it up on Usenet (a.b.starwars) a few weeks ago. I've been trying to upload it to MySpleen, but they keep rejecting my torrent with some weird error. I'm going to try again tonight.

This is excellent information, humanracer. Thanks!

zombie84 said:

DVD was a once-in-a-lifetime home video revolution. It won't be repeated on blu-ray, and it won't be repeated on any next format, just like it wasn't repeating with VHS, Beta, or Laserdisc. The sales revolution that DVD brought was the idea of people buying movies. People tended to have relatively small collections of VHS tapes or Laserdiscs, and a lot of movies weren't even priced for the sell-through market, they were meant to be rented. When DVD came out, they made it a collectors market that targeted sell-through, and even regular people who only had 25 VHS tapes over the span of 15 years now amassed 150 DVDs in less than half that. The fact that there haven't been rental chains in the better part of a decade certainly helped this along.

Part of it because the picture/sound difference between DVD and VHS was huge, part of it was because the idea of special features was new and exciting and part of it was because the availability and afforability created a new mentality where people owned and watched every movie they liked. That's not being repeated with Blu-ray; the picture quality is not the same step up (even though it is in resolution), and there isn't sufficient reason to buy for special features if you already own the DVD special editions. So, they are content with their DVDs and aren't rushing out to build a huge blu-ray library, let alone replace their old one.

The DVD market is fading away rapidly, so I feel like nowadays if people buy a new movie or a movie they don't already have they are more inclined to get the blu-ray, which now often come bundled with the DVD version anyway. But because people already collected hundreds of DVDs building up a library, they aren't going to replace all that. It's easy to replace 50% of your 32 VHS tapes, but much harder to replace 50% of your 132 DVDs.

Also, don't forget that many people simply don't own HDTVs (yet).

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Update: There is now strong evidence to suggest that Laserman is alive and well as of, at least, 25 March 29 October 21 November of this year. He's active on several different WWW forums.

OK, Zion has verified that it's him.

I'm still trying to figure out if he's still alive.

I'm fairly certain that I now know the identity of Laserman. I haven't yet determined if he's still alive.

I don't wish to invade anyone's privacy, so I won't post it here. PM me if you're interested.

Edit: I can tell you that he did work on Babe: Pig in the City as a digital effects artist. Furthermore, a domain registered in his name (not x0project.com) has an X0-specific page that's still available on archive.org.

Zion said:

Pretty sure Laserman wrote that article. I don't remember exactly what we were using back then with AviSynth, but it's pretty much the same idea I wrote about in this thread: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Fun-with-Photoshop-Denoising-an-LD-capture/topic/10460/

Awesome, thanks. I'll take a look.

Does anyone from the original X0 team have more information on the following? http://web.archive.org/web/20070808031012/http://www.x0project.com/articles.php?i=00012

I'd really love to see the script(s). Also, archive.org didn't even archive the images! :-(

TServo2049 said:

I don't KNOW that much about the film sources, it's all educated guesses and deductive reasoning. Like, the JSC has to be from the same IP as the 80s video releases because they share the same damage and glue marks, which means that unless they come from two different IPs that share all of the same flaws, the JSC doesn't come from an IP made in '85.

I'd love to have hard facts, but I don't actually have any. Sorry if I gave the impression that I knew something any of you didn't know -- I don't.

Don't be sorry! I know much of what you "know" in this regard came about via deductive reasoning. That's fine.

I think a thread written by you on this topic would be helpful because most of the relevant information is scattered across this forum, forcing each interested OT member to track it all down piece-by-piece, only to deduce what yourself (and others) have already deduced!

Plus, it would enable other knowledgeable people to post, with a possible timeline of what-the-hell-happened to these film elements over the years coming forth as a result.

Knowledge is power and we need all the power we can get to fight The Empire Disney/LFL.

That looks amazing, You_Too!

darth_ender said:

I think collaborating on any project is just a plain stupid idea!

PS see my signature ;)

:-)

Seriously, however, I think this could work very well.

If anyone's interested in participating, please (at least!) post something stating you are!

timdiggerm said:

What's the difference between this and Harmy's work? You need to differentiate yourself from the "competition".

Oh, the difference is significant.

1. No despecializing. Shots from, e.g., 97SE G'Kar won't be used if they require image editing in something like Photoshop to become "original". That is, we'd only include unmodified SE shots from pre-2004 sources.

2. No HD. The goal is to produce something better than GOUT, so it'd be above LD quality, but below DVD quality.

Basically, this would yield a better/cleaner GOUT from original sources.

This would not compete with Harmy's work at all.