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I believe I heard that all the OT footage has been replaced with HD SE footage, but I haven’t watched it myself to confirm. And I don’t remember who said that/where I read it.
Just make all the saber colors match Jedi Power Battles and I’m sold.
New poster from Germany (I think). It looks painted which looks really pretty!
Ooooooh - does anyone have this in higher res? I can’t find it anywhere. Definitely the one that’s going to be used on my custom BR cover if I can find it in decent quality.
Dalton was the best Bond. Can’t believe I said that, but it’s true.
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Season 4 is going to be very different - that book is basically a Western-inspired side story that almost entirely takes place on Ilus/New Terra. But they’re clearly adding more stuff in the Earth/Mars/Belt story between Avasarala, Bobbie, and Drummer/Ashford, so it might not feel that different.
Season 5 has already been greenlit and that book was the best of the first six, though, bar none.
The series isn’t indefinite, though - it was written as a trilogy of trilogies. That’s why season 3 felt like an ending - it was the end of the first trilogy. Book 9 will be the ending of the whole thing and it will be out within the next year, most likely (the book writers, who are in the writer’s room on the show and are executive producers, have been clear on the 9-book plan from the start and have only had two delays on their one-book-per-year schedule - book 8 was delayed a few months, and they decided to push book 9 back a bit as well to make sure they don’t rush the ending while also giving them time to work on season 5 of the show).
Bezos is also a huge fan, so it’s almost certain we’ll get through season 6 (end of the second trilogy) at minimum, and it’s more than likely we’ll get all 9 books adapted. Way back when he announced the Kindle, he debuted it with an image of the first book in the series’ cover on the screen, and that was way before the show was even a possibility.
It certainly seems to be picking up speed - queuing them by runtime seems to have been the way to go!
ESB and ROTJ use the 1980 and 1983 ALTA’s, I believe, rather than their 1997 counterparts.
Wasn’t SW the only one that was changed for 1997? Which means, TESB SE and ROTJ SE should have the originals since they weren’t touched in 1997? It’s been awhile so I don’t remember anymore… Otherwise it doesn’t make sense that they would’ve scanned only the titles from different reels altogether.
I’m not sure, but that sounds right to me.
Re: the 19SE OT looking duller colorwise compared to the 2004 master, there’s a couple things to consider here. For one thing, we’ve gotten so used to the ‘04 look that it seems jarring.
I actually think the majority of people on this site commenting on the dull color are used to Harmy’s Despecialized or 4K77/83’s colors, not the 2004 colors.
ESB and ROTJ use the 1980 and 1983 ALTA’s, I believe, rather than their 1997 counterparts.
Yeah, my post wasn’t trying to say that all forms of Disney+ piracy is an issue - it’s the WEB-DL style (getting the digital files themselves and stripping the DRM) that’s prohibitively difficult. WEBRIP style (recording the video stream from a device through a capture card over an HDMI connection) is easy, but it will result in at least some degradation in quality.
As has been discussed in the several posts above, those screencaps are minus the HDR metadata.
I do remember DVDFab having halfway decent compression options, and it can do basic menus and stuff.
Not without reencoding, since the MKV doesn’t have the letterboxing bars required to get the vertical resolution to the required 720 pixels.
You’ll either need to use a Blu-Ray compliant h264 encoder and decent compression settings to reencode it while adding letterboxing, the output of which you can then remux using something like tsmuxer to make a BDMV folder or ISO image to burn to disc, or use a full-on Blu-Ray authoring program to do it all at once, but those tend to be limited on encoding options, leading to stuff like pixelation.
It’s something I haven’t toyed with in a while since I watch most of my stuff on my media player through rips I make of Blu-Rays I own rather than putting a disc in a player, so I don’t often burn fan projects to disc anyway.
Someone else will probably have more specific suggestions for you, but if I remember after work tonight or this weekend at some point I’ll do some Googling to see what the better (free) options are these days.
Mandalorian is “out there” in 4K HDR, so the drm has clearly been broken on day one, so I think for those of us who won’t get D+ until 2021 (and believe me, if I could get it now, I’d be the first in line), someone will put the new masters out as well.
Apparently the only way to snag the files is through Nvidia Shield, and each time you do it, they ban that specific hardware so you have to use a brand new Shield each time. There’s also the fact that the “release group” doesn’t share their DRM crack. So I wouldn’t expect any more WEB-DL releases to come out of Disney+ for a while, it’ll probably just be WEBRIP recordings from an HDMI splitter, and even if that isn’t the case, a pirate group like that isn’t likely to spend $200 per film or episode to rip something that “already exists” in some form over entirely new content like The Mandalorian.
I know I’ve given views on this topic before but here it goes again. IMO they’re two different scenarios. One makes sense, one partially does.
I understand the Emperor change but my problem with it is the added dialogue and the fact that Ian literally delivers his lines as if he’s reading off cue cards. If it had been done similar to Adywan’s version including the look of the Emperor maybe it would have worked better. I’d still pick the original either way just on principle but anyways.
The Anakin switch is a different story. IMO without throwing the nostalgic angle on it it makes the redemption less meaningful and shows a variation of the character Luke never knew. Showing Shaw shows both a figure Luke will recognize and also represents the redeemed man who turned his back on evil, not the young whiny arrogant Jedi who did the opposite.
Was going to respond, but this is exactly how I feel about it so I’m just gonna quote you.
Episode 2 was a bit better, I thought. Really enjoyed the first chunk without any dialogue, and getting a closer look at Jawa life was interesting.
I’ve watched some of AOTC tonight. I don’t know if I can stomach the entire movie in its officially edited form, especially since the Disney+ version doesn’t appear to look much/any different from the Blu-Ray to my eyes.
Though it might be worth comparing the framing of the Reliance demo reel. Because apparently the D+ streams are 2.39:1 vs. the normal 2.35:1 they have been on prior releases. I hope that this is only a quirk of the streaming version.
2.39:1 has been the actual 35mm anamorphic standard since about 1970, but 2.35:1 kept getting used for years even though it was no longer correct. All the OT movies probably should actually be 2.39:1. It’s pretty much an imperceptible difference between the two anyway.
We could exchange this banter ad infinitum and derail the thread. Short and Sweet: I am one of those people who doesn’t like The Last Jedi, and i don’t see a way to restructure the film to make it to my liking. In fact, i don’t like any of the footage Rian Johnson put on film.
If you don’t think 1/3 of the sequel trilogy can be improved in any way, why are you in a thread dedicated to thinking up ideas to improve it in future fan edits?
I’m not trying to tell you to shut up, just saying that this isn’t the thread you seem to think it is. You might be more interested in the Script Writing & Re-Writing subforum, where I’m sure there are plenty of discussions of people coming up with alternate rewrites of the ST at a base level that can’t be achieved by fan editing. This subforum (and thread) are about what we can achieve through editing what we already have.
Luke should have fought against Kylo Ren in person and his confrontation with the walkers should end like Dark Empire(size matters not…). He never, never should have abandoned the jedi order, that’s not Luke.
I often wonder if, had the PT come first and the OT came out decades later and the scripts were all more or less the same, people would say this exact thing about Obi-Wan and Yoda in the OT.
“They never would have given up and gone into hiding! That’s not Obi-Wan/Yoda!”
The suicide scene is now significantly censored compared to the original.
Here’s the movie-censorship report - note that it has screenshots of both versions, and the original version is quite graphic.
Netflix’s statement:
We’ve heard from many young people that ’13 Reasons Why’ encouraged them to start conversations about difficult issues like depression and suicide and get help—often for the first time. As we prepare to launch season three later this summer, we’ve been mindful about the ongoing debate around the show. So on the advice of medical experts, including Dr. Christine Moutier, Chief Medical Officer at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, we’ve decided with creator Brian Yorkey and the producers to edit the scene in which Hannah takes her own life from season one.
Ah yes, they should have consulted the suicide prevention people before allowing that scene in the show. That should kind of be the industry standard, don’t you think?
This does set up a poor precedent, but ultimately, I think we can let this one slide as long as the uncensored version is out there and people know that the alteration happened. I can see the point of the original’s graphicness, but I’m not sure it’s that great a deterrent for youth suicides.
Yeah, I wasn’t trying to pass judgment on which version is more responsible, just to say that the precedent for a streaming service “patching an update” to their content and no longer making the original version available has already been set.
But how would you implement that in a fan edit using the available footage? Or are you just talking about a hypothetical version of the movie that would need to be rewritten from scratch and filmed all over again?
Nope, that’s fixed!
Current discs are NOT this version, they’re repackagings of the 2011 discs. This version is NOT available on physical media yet.
And yeah, the OT is clearly new scans, I didn’t think that was even a question anymore (especially given the comparisons that have been posted that quite clearly show 2004/2011 changes re-done from scratch).
I’m still not convinced TPM is a new scan. I think it’s the same 2011 BR master, but given a new HDR color grade.
The suicide scene is now significantly censored compared to the original.
Here’s the movie-censorship report - note that it has screenshots of both versions, and the original version is quite graphic.
Netflix’s statement:
We’ve heard from many young people that ’13 Reasons Why’ encouraged them to start conversations about difficult issues like depression and suicide and get help—often for the first time. As we prepare to launch season three later this summer, we’ve been mindful about the ongoing debate around the show. So on the advice of medical experts, including Dr. Christine Moutier, Chief Medical Officer at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, we’ve decided with creator Brian Yorkey and the producers to edit the scene in which Hannah takes her own life from season one.
