CatBus

Cue the Luke "I Care" image.

Some would say not wanting to play along with the charade qualifies as caring.  If you do, then I care.  If you don't, then I don't.

EDIT: Sorry, I was responding to the original question "Who cares?"  As for the point, our failure to entertain the ruse will hardly slow this project down. Maybe I've had too many friends ask me to lie for them in the past. It's just not healthy for a community for people to ask that of them.

AntcuFaalb said:

MrPib said:

Darth / Frink, could you take a moment and explain what you're talking about with respect to the makeup of Team Negative1?  I see cryptic comments here and there, and I'd love to know what you're talking about.

Thanks!

They're claiming that the original member, negative1, is still a member of the team despite the team frequently claiming otherwise because the team account has written several posts in negative1's idiosyncratic style.

Not to mention the frequency and vehemence of those denials is pretty wildly out of proportion to any casual mention of -1 (even to people who accidentally choose the wrong shortened form of team_negative1, not intending to say anything at all about membership of the team), considering they engage in no other discussion of specific current or former team members whatsoever.

jimbotron235 said:

You should not need to reencode the video.  It is already in h264 format.  You would just need to change the container from MKV.

Simply demuxing it and putting it on a BD-R using tsMuxer resulted in an unplayable disc for me (admittedly on a sample of one player, but it's an Oppo BDP-93, which is decently well-regarded, and isn't showing any issues on other BD-R's).  Sure it's h264 and 16:9, but there are a few other restrictions when you make a BD-compliant stream too, and maybe one of those is off.  Just re-encoding in x264 with the "--bluray-compat" flag produced a stream that worked without problems for me.  YMMV.  Not really sure about the audio, but since the main track works, I don't care to dig deeper.

If you want to play off the coffee connotations of Puggo Grande, you could call it "Puggo Ristretto".  A short shot with the same amount of coffee as a full shot.  Or just "Puggo Breve", which is a little easier to say.

team_negative1 said:

The beauty of the digital format is that, you can upgrade your monitor, projector, or TV when you wish, and gain benefit from it, accordingly.

Theoretically the back-end resolution could be bumped as new scans are made, but I'm not sure that's really ever happened.  Furthermore, that puts you even more at risk of having the media you "bought" replaced with a orange-and-teal revised director's cut monstrosity without notice.  If you're just talking about "it's just high res", well, I certainly started buying Blu-rays long before I had an HDTV, so I got the benefit of the hardware upgrade just the same.  That's just an effect of upgrading the players before the display.

Frankly for most consumers, if you buy a (good quality) Blu-ray today, there is no upgrade needed for any future display.  It's a terminal physical format in the good sense of the term*.  It's not perfect, sure, but the imperfections are something nearly every consumer wouldn't notice, let alone care about.  The handful of people who want more will keep chasing the AV rainbow no matter what.

* Terminal physical format in the sense that CD was the terminal physical music format.  Successor formats existed, but few even knew what they were, let alone bought them.

PM sent.  As you've probably read, the Japanese full subtitles for ROTJ are graphical-only, so you're not going to find an SRT file for those.

PM sent. Your niece is lucky she has someone looking out for her. Enjoy the movies!

DuracellEnergizer said:

But you're Team Olie, not Team Ollie.

Unless Team Olie is a superset of Team Ollie.  I wonder how much overlap there is between our various teams.  Could we get a Venn diagram please?

TV's Frink said:

What is all this we don't even.

Team Olie

I suspect at least one of you even.

PM sent.

Yes, that's all very outdated.  All of the languages you listed are now based on the official translations (except American Spanish, which is derived from the official Castilian translations and converted by one of our members).

I don't really mark subs as unverified anymore, since that's not really a useful quality description anymore.  That's not to say that any given translation doesn't still have room for improvement, but things should be much better with the current version.

EDIT: Oh yeah, you can always check the first post in this thread for the current status.

Feallan said:

AntcuFaalb said:

Wazzles said:

What the fuck is going on in this thread?

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♥

Star Wars was obscure for about 26 seconds during the seventies. I was there, man, before it went big time. You don't know.

I doubt this applies to individuals pretending to be teams. Not trying to insinuate anything about anyone's team accounts... but not sure Team Dinkins is entirely on the up and up.

They could use percentages as a way to express opinion, but still use the signature.  78.4% of us think this is the case, 12.3% of us think this is complete BS, 5.6% of us went out for tacos two weeks ago and haven't come back yet, and 3.7% of us are a stray cat the rest of us just kind of adopted even though we still behave kinda sketchy when we're inside.

ray_afraid said:

CatBus said:

Tobar said:

Looks like little Annie fell to the Darkside

Goatees lead to handlebars, handlebars lead to neckbeards, neckbeards lead to mutton chops.

Is this a personal attack?

Naw, you go right ahead and rock that dark side.  It is more seductive after all.  Er, so I've heard. *cough*

team_negative1 said:

Projectors are the way to go. But if you don't have the room, widescreen monitors only take up a little more space than standard monitors, but have a huge impact on the viewing experience.

Team Negative1

I'm with you up to a point.  21:9 displays are definitely aimed at being a low-end (in terms of both cost and space) alternative to projectors, but...

21:9 is 2.33:1.  Depending on your source's "scope" ratio, you're still not using your display's full height, albeit pretty close.  Or, if you're watching Ben-Hur, it's still not really even that close.

Home video encoding is still 16:9.  This presents a lot of issues that are nothing new to projector owners (manual AR selection, movies that change aspect ratios, fun with subtitles), but with displays you've also got scaling and pixel mapping issues that may reduce image quality.  But going back to the "nothing new to projector owners" issues for a second though, all of these are very much new to owners of typical displays and aren't that much fun.  The Netflix app in a Smart TV typically disables most TV controls--would it even allow you to select the AR for a scope film?  Who knows?

If you watch in the dark, the invisible edges of the display and the invisible black bars blend in with the rest of your invisible surroundings.  All you get out of a 21:9 display is a bigger picture, which you could also get out of a proportionally bigger 16:9 display.

That said, I still like the idea of a 21:9 display, because nearly all of the content I watch is wider than 16:9, and my living room is small.  I'm just... wary (I also never watch TV with the lights on).  With higher resolutions on the horizon, the scaling/pixel mapping concern should fade away, at the very least.

Danfun128 said:

Also, I'd rather think of something else than Frink when i close my eyes and...

But they are so handsome! And like-minded!

Danfun128 said:

CatBus said:

TV's Frink said:

Are all of you going to tell us that our setups utilize technology there is no demand for?

Well, I play my CED's back on a curved screen that does on-the-fly 3D conversion, using a quadrophonic audio setup, so there's no risk of that for me.

Not sure if serious.

Just close your eyes and think of Frink.

Irony checklist: CED, curved screen, 3D, quadrophonic

FWIW, I think most of our CIH-viewing userbase has projectors rather than ultra-widescreen monitors.

TV's Frink said:

Are all of you going to tell us that our setups utilize technology there is no demand for?

Well, I play my CED's back on a curved screen that does on-the-fly 3D conversion, using a quadrophonic audio setup, so there's no risk of that for me.

SUREFACE said:

Thanks, for Your GREAT WORK!.

Do ou Relase a German One? With Original german Scrolltext and German Outro?

If You Wanna Do This, Please Note: The First Scrolltext have a Failure.

Watch here: http://www.schnittberichte.com/schnittbericht.php?ID=2005824

If You Release a german Scrolltext, Please Check if You Find The One I`Ve send You the Link. This will Comes Nearly to the German Old Theatrical Release.

cu SUREFACE

I'm sure the team responsible for this:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Krieg-der-Sterne-Despecialized-Edition-25-German/topic/15914/

...will release a German version for Empire.  I believe they're waiting for the 2.5 release before making the customizations, but I'm not certain.

Don't underestimate the power of the "Dave's not here, man!" defense.

Tobar said:

Looks like little Annie fell to the Darkside

Goatees lead to handlebars, handlebars lead to neckbeards, neckbeards lead to mutton chops.

At least on the Blu-rays pittrek bought in Slovakia, only the prequels have Slovak subs.  I should mention that Slovaks have a long history of watching Czech-language film and television and it's not really a big stretch, but still, the principle of the thing is that it's just wrong to subtitle only the prequels.  I believe the languages of the Baltic states are in the same predicament.

FWIW, I believe if I added Slovak, that'd leave Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, and Irish before I'd support every official EU language.  And that would be a pretty cool milestone indeed.

My mistake entirely.