Asaki

Awesome. Totally awesome.

Okay, thanks. Yeah, mine's LucasFilms/Fox, I think the very tiny print says 1996.

Asaki said:

Nearsighted Scrappile said:

This is great! I was just going through my video collection and came across my Droids and Ewoks DVD's and a VHS of the Droids "The Pirates and the Prince."

 I just picked this up from Goodwill the other day, just for the heck of it (never seen any of the cartoons or the Holiday Special). Is it the same as what's on the DVD? Wikipedia doesn't say.

 Nobody knows?

RRS-1980 said:

Few months ago, with all the buzz about Double Fine Adventure and Wasteland 2 ...

It's weird seeing so many people interested in (or even aware of) Wasteland 2. Is Wasteland really much more popular than I give it credit for, or has it gained a lot more interest due to Bethesda's very successful "sequel" of a "sequel"?

Seems like it wasn't that long ago, I would only hear "What's Wasteland? Oh. Those are really bad graphics."

To everyone making suggestions for color sources and etc.: you missed out on the blog, this project is in good hands. I'm no expert, but I think it's safe to say that they know what they're doing.

djchaseb said:

I won't buy a movie if it has excessive DVNR and edge enhancement. The star wars blu rays aren't guilty of this...

 You mean except for The Phantom Menace ;)

jero32 said:

What George Lucas is doing however, is more comparable to John Lennon deciding Yoko Ono was also part of the band, and permanently mixing her voice into the song.

Or, to replace your analogy with an actual historical event, it's like when the first two Ozzy Osbourne albums were rereleased with modern rerecorded bass and drum tracks, and the original albums (plus The Ultimate Sin and the song Shot in the Dark) were withdrawn from the market.

I think I read that they fiddled with Bark at the Moon, too, but I rarely listen to that album, so I wouldn't have noticed.

...or maybe it's not like that, since at least most copies of the SEs let you know that they're not the originals before you open them (thus voiding your chances of getting a refund)...

Well as we discussed elsewhere, the 35mm version has a lot of white clipping that may or may not have been intentional.

jero32 said:

So you're saying people don't "agree" with the blu-rays "feel" so to speak? Due to excessive editing to colors contrast/brightness and that this was done heavily on a frame by frame basis (or even pixel by pixel as you mention)

 I think you just answered your own question ;)

I've seen screenshots of the workprint though, there's no way you could put any of that footage back in. It looks worse than the "producer's cut" of Halloween 6.

I thought the original DVD release was pretty barebones to begin with.

Would love to see an unrated cut of the movie some day, but I have a feeling it's unlikely to happen =(

frank678 said:

AntcuFaalb said:

I now own a like-new copy (ROTJ opened; ANH and TESB sealed). It should arrive on Tuesday, 10 July. I'll capture it whenever I'm finished with PS78. Yay!

 Nice. One thing myscamore mentions in his Technidisc thread is he was unhappy with the white balance via his set-up. The stills Asaki linked of his VHS capture look like they have just fractionally cleaner/lighter whites. It will be interesting to see your results on this tape, especially as its fresh out the box!

 Like I said, I didn't calibrate the picture or anything. The whites are way blown out compared to how it looks on an actual TV.

Also, there's lots of rainbow colored interference from the VRC itself. I just wanted some quick shots, so I didn't bother averaging multiple shots together or anything fancy like that.

russs15 said:

Just wondering if the ANH of this has been completed and made available anywhere???

 I don't think so, but the previously done V8 was released.

He might've released the raw files, but I personally like the Technidisc better.

I wasn't telling a joke, it seemed a bit fast and smooth to me. Maybe my setup was just playing it wrong or something?

I posted a bunch of screen captures of this set here: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Pre-93-Special-LD-transfers/topic/12399/page/4/

My capture card isn't the best, and I didn't calibrate it at all (whites are way blown out), but you get the idea. It's not going to look very good on anything but an analogue TV, and even there you're going to notice the "jaggies".

russs15 said:

It is the first and only pre-THX Widescreen/Letterbox US NTSC VHS release (the other is the Faces set which is also worthy of a transfer).

 I thought "Faces" was THX?

russs15 said:

It is "assumed" to have the 1985 remix soundtrack for ANH so include the tractor beam line. The truth is, we do not know for sure until someone tells us.

 The "tractor beam" line is in it.

Oh, this is just the same trailer from before =(

But it looks like it's not interlaced anymore =)

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

See you folks on wednesday!?

 Happy Fourth of July? =)

frank678 said:

It does look better and not just because of the improved sharpness of the new frames. Looking at those shots of R2D2 the corrected version seems 'quicker' to appear real. As if when its incorrect the brain has to do an additional milli-second adjustment to interpret the image.

 Because it's running without the NTSC pulldown ;) And possibly at the wrong framerate, too?

Oh, or maybe you're talking about the screen captures, nevermind.

Game of the Year Edition?

Too young to have seen them (though I'm pretty sure they did show the SEs in 97), but I saw Episodes II and III there. Place is obviously still standing.

frank678 said:

...its like someone spilled pink blamanche over the mona lisa.

But even the Mona Lisa isn't the same colors it originally was: http://www.lumiere-technology.com/Pages/News/news3.htm

Don’t know if there are any fans here, but I just thought I’d throw this out there anyway.

For those that don’t know, only seasons 1 and 2 were ever released on DVD.  There are three more seasons, a few specials, two episodes from the unfinished season 6, and the Big Picture Show.

Seasons 3, 4 and 5 apparently were only released officially in Thailand…I’m tempted to check them out, though it seems they’re on DVD-5 so I don’t know what the quality would be like (still much better than iTunes, I’m sure).

There’s also “Fools’ Par-Ed-Ise”, which is a compilation containing a few episodes from other seasons, and “Cartoon Network: Christmas Rocks”, which has Jingle Jingle Jangle.

I've seen one on YouTube of someone modelling the all-white prototype, if that's what you mean. I think that was for the movies, though, and not the special.

TV's Frink said:

Kickstarter!

What do I get if I pledge to donate $1000?

AntcuFaalb said:

Sure: Sample 5 Sample 6!

Not bad. It does miss a few spots, but it looks a lot nicer than it did before.

I have no idea what kind of negative effects from the process I would be looking for, though =)

AntcuFaalb said:

I plan to ColourLike against another source anyway.

 I don't know what you would mix it with...the GOUT has nothing to gain from...maybe you could get a tiny sharpness boost from adding the Technidisc's color with the JSC, but that seems like a lot of work for something that will (hopefully) be obsolete before the year is over.

...or TheThirdGathers could just upload the unaltered audio somewhere for us...

xhonzi said:

Oh, and if we could only get these '92 P&S VHS versions, I would like to upscale them to BD and make them 3D. Who wants to help me?!?!

 ...wait a minute, where have I heard that line before??