CatBus

Or the new Will Smith.  Or maybe the new Anna Nicole Smith.  No, wait...

Project files have been updated to version 5.1 (original post has been updated as well).  The new download links are NOT the same as before, so please PM me for the links.

Rough summary of changes:

Added Thai (scaled only), and re-rendered Arabic using a more legible font.  Instructions for changing subtitles into different formats are greatly simplified.  The packages are also a little different: one package includes everything, and then two smaller packages just have DVD subs and sources.

Actually, you know what?  That picture zoomed in and shrunk down to 100x100 would be a great avatar for Harmy when he gets tired of the Yoda/Joker avatar.  I'm tempted to use if for something myself if he doesn't want it...

It's so beautiful...

lpd said:

Wondering, is that normal/standard for the player to do that?

No.  And 24fps is the less-frequently-encountered framerate, so if a player was just buggy, I'd figure that would be the framerate that would screw it up.  It's possible there's some sort of problem at an intermediate layer, such as if you route your HDMI cable through a receiver.  But it's a bug.

I'd check for firmware updates if you already haven't.  Also I know of at least one player that will only output 60fps if the source is 720p, but can do 24p correctly for any 1080p source, something to do with a bug in the scaling.

bilditup1 said:

There's been a minute but detectable uptick in interest even at the spleen since Simon Pegg's tweet

And I'm also seeing an uptick in subtitle requests, all strangely specifying that they want them for Empire and Jedi, as if they already have them for Star Wars...

So I think it's safe to say that whatever surge in interest we're seeing is global, and that people are following up watching Star Wars DeEd 2.0 with watching Empire and Jedi 1.0.

georgec said:

Am I the only one that sees a front-facing Tyrannosaurus Rex wearing two giant oven mitts?

Riding on top of the moon lander which is strangely suspended over a little white star destroyer?  No.

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

I do consider the non-anamorphic format to be a bug.  Why?  Because industry standard at the time was to release widescreen movies anamorphically.

I have to point out that according to Lucas-logic, the GOUT is not actually the feature film on the 2006 DVDs, but a bonus feature, more akin to a deleted scene or making-of featurette.  And those, I'm afraid, were not only occasionally non-anamorphic in 2006, but also showing timecodes, etc.

That said, aside from Lucas and a few sycophants, I doubt anyone on the GOUT production team believed the Lucas-logic.  Certainly the advertising team believed the GOUT was the primary feature on the set.

Memories...
Like the corners of my miiind
Misty water-colored memorieees
Of the waaay we werrre!

Er, you probably were thinking a different kind of soundtrack...

Not only that, but if it weren't for that nail, the Holiday Special would have been much less entertaining.

I have to say I spent quite a few minutes looking at 13.13.51 saying to myself, "What did he...?  How did he even...?  Holy crap that looks good!"

I just took a look (didn't download, but checked date and NFO) and it doesn't appear updated.  I may have caused a panic, sorry.

negative1 said:

why is using a new mix a bug?

The GOUT was pitched as the "original trilogy as it existed originally in the theatres", which is why they went through the trouble of putting in (or re-creating) the original crawl and flyover for Star Wars.  Given that description of what it was supposed to be, the only appropriate mixes for Star Wars would have been one of the '77 mixes.

It's not a technical glitch, but it is a point at which it clearly deviates from the purported design specs--and it's not even a matter of attempting to meet the design specs and doing badly at it (anamorphic could qualify as that), it's just not even in the same ballpark as the goal.  I think that qualifies as a bug.

You know, like if your software was supposed to be a Word Processor but it turned out to be a toaster oven.  Perhaps fully functional and even good at what it does but still wrong.

Actually I think it's just Star Wars that's wrong.  I'm not sure it's easily provable if ESB and ROTJ are wrong, and I'd err on the side of caution for something trying to be a definitive list.

AntcuFaalb said:

CatBus said:

I thought h_h mentioned once that the GOUT version of Star Wars had the wrong soundtrack--i.e. something that was assembled to resemble the '77 mix in most respects, but wasn't the actual '77 mix.  Anyone know the details, or am I maybe imagining things?

I thought they used the '93 mix?

Possibly--either way, the whole soundtrack can be called a bug.

I thought h_h mentioned once that the GOUT version of Star Wars had the wrong soundtrack--i.e. something that was assembled to resemble the '77 mix in most respects, but wasn't the actual '77 mix.  Anyone know the details, or am I maybe imagining things?

"aliazing" should be aliasing

"Jap" is not a very good choice for an abbreviation for "Japanese" (the term has a racist history).  I'd spell out Japanese Special Collection once with (JSC) in parentheses, then use JSC from that point on.

schorman13 said:

Yeah they are done, I forgot to mention that :)

Wait.  My brain just woke up... do you mean the ducked commentaries are done and already in the updated existing archive, or done and waiting for the rest of the tracks to be done for a big update?  If it's the former, I feel sooo sheepish.

Wait, wait.  Laserschwert is right.  We need to tie this back into Star Wars somehow.

So Darth Vader will be in it.  But he can't wear a black cape, and he can't use a lightsaber.  But other than that, he'll still be Vader.  This is gonna be AWESOME!

Forget Harmy! You and me are going to Hollywood, Mr. Wings!

Put a giant spider in the third act and this thing could go places in Hollywood.

I was thinking he'd be good in a reboot of the F/X movies.  The bad guys try to thwart him using all these fancy digital effects, but he cobbles something together using models and rubber masks that saves the day.

Man, everyone's focusing on the negative!  How about some speculation about which superhero franchise reboot Harmy's gonna star in?

I'm serious, 50-50 odds on a name drop.  Like: I'd like to thank my mother, my analyst, Petr Harmacek, my voice coach, my dog trainer, blah blah blah.  So many people go up there onstage and say the most random things, a name drop is pretty small potatoes, and I think by the time the awards roll around, some of the right people will have seen it to make it happen (yes I know Pegg and Wheaton are unlikely to be up there themselves).  I'm not suggesting Billy Crystal shows a 15-minute clip or something.

You are correct to detect a half-joking tone for the whole thread.  Speculation is fun, especially when we're betting which starlet Harmy will soon be having breakfast with!

I personally think Lucasfilm will say nothing and do nothing, either from a genuine belief that it has no significant impact on them, or for fear of drawing more attention to it.

10000:1 - The Nobel Prize Committee finally caves to the times and expands their Literature category to include "The Arts".  First winner?  You guessed it.