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#40293
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Whats your dream DVD?
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Yeah, but the only thing that changed with VH was that Sammy finally contributed to the songs. 5150 was written before Sammy was brought on board. They still sound like VH from one album to the other. It's gonna take a lot more for Audioslave to make a change. The two bands have completely different sounds (RATM and Soundgarden).
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#40286
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BaseBall talk
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The Phils have a chance. Until they play the Cubbies, that is.

I hate that ballparks, or any stadium for that matter, are named after corporate sponsors. Some of the old ones are fine that have been around forever and a day like Wrigley Field. Okay, let me qualify that statement a bit... I hate when pre-existing stadiums, et al, change their names to represent a corporate sponsor. When it's built with the intent of having a corporate name it's not as bad although it does cheapen it a bit. Comiskey Park in Chicago (White Sox) changing it's name to Cellular One Park or whatever the hell it's called now. Rosemont Horizon (great concert venue and home of the Chicago Wolves IHL team) changing to something or other. I still call them by their old names. I heard that when Bon Jovi played at the Horizon a year or so ago, he announced to the crowd that it will always be the Rosemont Horizon to him no matter what everyone else calls it. Big friggin' cheer erupted from the audience.
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#40280
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the SE films are all that are left!!!!
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Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
First off, be careful who you attribute quotes to. It was the idiot who started this thread who made the cellulite error.
As for scanning @ 4500dpi, consider that most release prints only retain, @ best, resolution easily captured by a 2K scan. This is why most people cannot tell the difference between HD and film. Scnning @ 4500dpi is overkill and may, in fact expose certain elements (matte lines, wires) that were meant to be obscured by the reduction in resolution of a release print.
SW:ANH's biggest problem with film stock was that 5247 was a CRI (color reversal internegative) stock, which is extremely prone to fading. Not all the film was shot in 5247; it was only the effects shots that were handled this way, because it reduced the number of generations required in optical printing. As for shrinkage of the seps, Warner is using a new process (dubbed Ultra Resolution) that scans all the seps in, converts them to their appropriate colours, and uses computer technology to digitally correct shrinkage and prevent the fringing that results when shrunken seps are recombined. The first DVD released in this process was Singin' in the Rain:SE, and it has since been used for The Adventures of Robin Hood and will also be used for the upcoming release of Gone With the Wind. I don't see why LFL couldn't licence this to produce an all new answer print of ANH.
Finally, while 70mm is bigger, bigeer doesn't necessarily equal better. The 70mm prints were blow-ups and as such, bring a lot more grain into the image. The best way to see the OT is still in 35mm. Episode 2 may have looked less than stellar on the big screen, but it looked pretty amazing on DVD. That's because a digital-to-film conversion inevitably saps some of the colour and brightness from the image. If you'd seen AOTC in a DLP venue, you would have been blown away by the image.

Um... yeah! What he said.
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#40278
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George Lucas no longer cares
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Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
I don't know how we can discuss operetta without mentioning Gilbert & Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, HMS Pinafore... all great stuff.

Seen Pirates of Penzance but neither of the others. Closest I came to HMS Pinafore was Sideshow Bob in the Cape Fear spoof episode of The Simpsons.

Anyone seen The Pirate Movie? I think I've asked this before, but it's been a while in any case.