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Only if you Photoshop Vader's freaky bushy eyebrows off.

mverta said:

There is truly no force in the universe more powerful than the human ability to rationalize.

Have to throw my predictably pessimistic hat into the ring with you, there, Mike.  While it's true in a general sense that 90% of everything is crap, and we tend to only remember the good stuff, so the past has a rosy tint, there are other trends, big trends that outweigh all of that.

In my opinion, sometimes studios are risk-averse and sometimes they're not.  When they take more risks, they can produce truly great (and also terrible) things.  When they feel risk-averse, the best they can usually hope for is decently entertaining.  We have been in a risk-averse period for a long, long, LOOOONG time.  Not saying good stuff isn't made, but often it happens outside or in spite of the studio system.  The last long-lasting "risky" period was the so-called auteur movement, lining up more or less with the seventies.  The crap was phenomenally crap, but the good stuff was divine.  Nowadays, it's generally by-the-numbers with good execution, or by-the-numbers with poor execution.  Bleh.

My wife and I have been complaining about the "Hollywood Writer's Strike" for the last ten years or so, even though we know there sadly isn't one to explain all this.

EDIT: I'd add City of God and Amelie to poita's generally pretty good noughties list (Million Dollar Baby notwithstanding...)

I don't remember anything about a new higher-bitrate video encode, but then I also don't remember breakfast.  I'd say go for it.

I've offered a few updated files to the guy who was working on it, and haven't heard a peep back.  Not that he can't roar back into action soon, but I think he got sidelined for a bit.

On the other hand, a menu-free Blu-ray is very easy to make with tsmuxerGUI and ImgBurn, nothing to it really.  It's how I prefer to watch these.

No, but it is a bit of an inside joke.  We've had one estimate that was wrong by over a year.  Basically, "when it's done" is your most accurate answer.  If you want inaccurate answers, I can set you up with that too.

Right now, Harmy is very busy with real life, and his priority is getting Jedi up to 2.x-quality, and even that may be a long wait.  Only after that's done will you see any movement toward 2.5 on ESB.

PM sent.  The older the preservation, the less complete the built-in subtitle support would be.  Eventually I hope excellent subtitle support just comes standard with any preservation, without having to ask for a separate download--but we're not quite there yet.

EDIT: However, the latest release of Star Wars Despecialized does have English subtitles, so if yours doesn't, you've got an old version and should definitely consider an upgrade--there have been major improvements since the subtitle-free 1.x series.

So I won't book that flight to Virginia just yet if I'm parsing that correctly.

My guess is the MKV support in your player is pretty rudimentary/buggy.  You might try to make a proper Blu-ray with tsMuxerGUI and ImgBurn.

I care.

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I don't hate magenta -- I pity magenta.

Easterhay's got some competition, it seems.

There's a topic?

PM sent.  RE: the Japanese subs, I recommend always using the graphical subtitles regardless of whether or not text subtitles are available.  The graphical ones for ROTJ are from the Region 2 GOUT, while the partial ones are extracted from a lesser-quality SE fansub, no idea what its original encoding was--it was a long time ago.

Anyway, converting the official subtitles to text is a process that's already underway, but slow for reasons explained on the last page if you're curious.  Anyway, just use the graphical ones and you'll be fine.  Instructions are included in the README.html if you're not familiar with using graphical subs.

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Yes, the bitrate is higher on the MKV, and there are lots of extra niceties in the form of alternate tracks.  That said, the AVCHD still looks and sounds very good.

Sounds pretty good, let me know how it works out.  For the Greedo scene, you'd end up with three sets of subtitles on the screen at the same time!  Good luck.

TV's Frink said:

If you really want your mind blown, come to FE.org and watch me moderate the forum.

Okay, now with the personal pronouns.  Where's Rod Serling?

TV's Frink said:

There's a whole subforum known as "off topic" for that sort of thing.

Okay, first Stinky-Dinkins posts completely helpful messages, and now Frink's telling people not to post offtopic in Harmy's thread of all places.

I can't decide if I want to stick around for team_negative1 to post an "I'm actually still here" message, or if I want to run away before I read a pollyanna-saccarine "don't worry be happy" post from generalfrevious.  Does this all mean I'm still Elaine?

joefavs said:

Assuming it was in fact an autocorrect flub, "Greedo" to "Gringo" is now my favorite autocorrect flub of all time.

 Not autocorrect.  It's an OT.com legend.

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Regarding two subtitles at the same time--adding two subtitles to one file is certainly easy, but watching the movie with two sets of subtitles simultaneously will not be easy (I've never done it).  Switching between the two--picking one or the other--is how it's typically done.

If you want to watch it in two alternate languages at the same time, you could use the Japanese or French dub, then use subtitles from the other language.  The subtitles don't 100% match up with the dub tracks, though, since they're designed to accompany the English tracks, but they work decently.

Darth Mallwalker said:

Well there it is finally-- it could be our slowest posting evar.

The SFV file was made by segaflip, and the alternative spelling folder name and all, all his.
All I done was preserve it for nine years.

For n00bs, there's 2 incredible shrinks to look for:

After Ben said You'll have to sell your speeder.
--- ratio shrink ---
Before Gringo asked Going somewhere, Solo?

The 2nd shrink is pictured above.
We can't recall the dialog in that shot off the top of our collective heads.
Is it before Solo asked Didn't we just leave this party? ?

Just in case you were wondering, I saw what you did there.