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#682181
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Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released)
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Not to mention, one of the prevailing theories explaining "Why did they release the GOUT when they explicitly said they'd never release the originals again?" was that the GOUT was released to shut down the burgeoning industry in Star Wars Laserdisc rips (because, at least on the video side, the GOUT was marginally better quality than those rips).  And it more-or-less worked, simple competition.  Superior product at a fair price.

If that theory is true and the pattern holds, that means they may consider the best way to deal with us is to deliver a better-quality product at a fair price.  Although I have my doubts they can actually deliver on "better-quality", supposing for a moment that they actually did it, I think most people here would be happy to pack it in and call it a day, including myself.

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#681998
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Project Threepio (Star Wars OOT subtitles)
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Check the first post.  "native" means designed to accompany video with crawl text and alien subtitles in the same language (thus, these subs do not provide translations for those).  "match" means designed to match the onscreen appearance of burnt-in alien subtitles (which I'll be the first to admit is more of a novelty than something I'd want to use all the time, so it's safe to ignore these).

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#681401
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Info Wanted: Is there 5.1 surround sound on the Despecialized Editions?
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Yep.  Neither has ESB.

Back to the OP, it's just fairly unlikely anyone's going to do this other than yourself, Rebelscum, because the pairing is so odd.  The primary appeal (to me) of the DeEd is that it actually looks like a movie from the late 70's.  Having it sound like a movie from the 90's* while simultaneously looking like a movie from the 70's would seem, at least to me, pretty jarring.

* Except I don't actually think the Blu-ray mix sounds like a movie from the 90's--it sounds like a movie from the 70's that's gone through a weird warping/muddying wringer in a disastrous attempt to make it sound more like a movie from the 90's, but I realize this is subjective and I know some people really like it.

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#681140
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International Audio (including Voice-Over Translations)
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I have been contacted by someone with access to some Russian dubs.  Right now, I have the voiceover-style dub and another more typical dub of ROTJ, and I hope to have access to SW soon, and Empire within a month or so.

They sound good, but unless someone has any need to hear them right now, I'll wait to share until I get the Star Wars dubs (hopefully in time for the DeEd Blu-rays!)

I'm not sure of the history behind the newer non-voiceover Russian dub, and how popular it is with Russian fans.  I didn't know it even existed, and I don't know the status of similar dubs for the rest of the trilogy.

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#681012
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Info Wanted: Is there 5.1 surround sound on the Despecialized Editions?
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Nope.  Sounds fine here.

EDIT: Waitasec... are you expecting the dialogue to be EXCLUSIVELY on the center channel?!?

Nope, you're hearing it right.  This is an upmix from Dolby surround encoded stereo.  There's no way you're getting that sort of bleed-free channel separation.  It's unlikely it was that way theatrically either.

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#680737
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Project Threepio (Star Wars OOT subtitles)
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-1's project is the only 1080p project on my radar, so I'm definitely already willing to do a special release for that one (whenever that happens).  I just wasn't sure if there were any others.

Also, there's still a bit of a question about whether or not -1's project will be GOUT-synced, or if it will be close enough for subtitles at least.  We won't know that for a while either.

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#679418
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The Matrix [spoRv] *BD-25 RELEASED*
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jerryshadoe said:

So that's a total of 15 languages (will be the most complete "International" edition ever made) with a total of 29 audio tracks AND subtitles for the following:


English
English SDH
French
Italian
Spanish
Portoguese(Portugal)
Portuguese(Brazilian)
Dutch
Japanese
German
Russian
Chinese
Arabic
Indonesian
Bulgarian
Croatian
Czech
Polish
Estonian
Hebrew
Hungarian
Icelandic
Romanian
Serbain
Slovenian
Thai
Turkish
Latvian
Danish
Finnish
Greek
Norwegian
Slovak
Swedish
English for commentary track 1
French for commentary track 1
Italian for commentary track 1
Spanish for commentary track 1
Portoguese(Portugal) for commentary track 1
Dutch for commentary track 1
Czech for commentary track 1
Hungarian for commentary track 1
Turkish for commentary track 1
Chinese for commentary track 1
Chinese for commentary track 2
Chinese for commentary track 3
Chinese for commentary track 4
Chinese for commentary track 5 (not sure on this one, will have to verify since there is almost nothing said in track 5 since its mostly a score track)

This makes for a total of 48 subtitle tracks in 32 languages.

So jealous right now ;)

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#678629
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Project Threepio (Star Wars OOT subtitles)
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No, this project is limited in scope to the OT films. However, I've designed this project as a sort of complete subtitling toolkit/template so that others can build on what I've done, as needed.  So, while I don't personally plan on any expansion more radical than adding languages, that's not to say someone else couldn't use some of my tools and workflow to create something different.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and you're very welcome. Making these films accessible to deaf viewers was in fact the whole reason this project got started.  It just got a little out of control...

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#677536
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Info: Hard Boiled and The Killer
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This is the "Japanese Blu-ray" we're all referring to: http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%83%8F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9C%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89%EF%BC%8F%E6%96%B0%E3%83%BB%E7%94%B7%E3%81%9F%E3%81%A1%E3%81%AE%E6%8C%BD%E6%AD%8C-Blu-ray-%E3%83%81%E3%83%A7%E3%82%A6%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A6%E3%83%B3%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1/dp/B006VQ96BQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1386960785&sr=8-1&keywords=hard+boiled

Cheap for a JP Blu-ray, and it cleans up nice.  The photo says Fortune Star but others say it's Mei Ah.  I don't actually know or care, but it's good.