Darth Richard

Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
No medal for Chewie is blatant Wookism.

Originally posted by: Sluggo
I don't know how a medal on Chewie would work. Since he only stays in the back, there is no chance for Leia to give him one. Unless he had one before this, but why would he get one before Han and Luke? And I certainly wouldn't want to try to animate a medal on Chewie while he was walking.

Originally posted by: Scruffy
I don't remember this scene, but I do remember Leia kissing Luke and missing on her first try in ESB.

Originally posted by: Dug
Hahaha! You see, this is funny... um... how can I explain this... I was rewriting ROTJ to make it more palatable for myself, and I in research, I found that Lucas, in an early creative session, came up with Endor as the moon that circles Coruscant (There is evidence of this still in the final script---the story was that the Emperor was going to move his palace from crowded Coruscant [not called that in the script btw] to the Jedi Temple on Endor. So, if you ever why the Emperor calls Endor the 'sanctuary moon' this is why)... On Endor there was suppose to be a Jedi Temple. This would have EASILY settled my clamoring for a Jedi Temple on a nature-filled world, and would satisfy those who want a temple close to Coruscant.

I truly say that if Lucas had stuck with some of his original ideas (Leia not Luke's sister, the rebels invade Coruscant, two or three small weapons platforms instead of one giant DS...) and committed to them, we would've had a better ROTJ, and better prequels. But that's just IMHO.

Wouldn't Coruscant have a protector, too?

Not necessarily. Jedi are not as numerous in my rewrite ideas. However, I toyed with the idea at one point that there was a protector for Coruscant, and he had turned to the dark side. Obi-Wan was forced to battle him and killed him. Then, when I was treating Vader and Anakin as separate characters, Vader took the position left vacant.

Originally posted by: boris
HVD is the future. I'm unimpressed by HD-DVD, it's only 15Gig/layer - that's not very much of an improvement upon DVD. In fact if you were to record a 2-hour movie onto a DVD-9 maxing out the space using the latest Mpeg-4 codec you'll have something in a quality at least 10 times better then the DVD standard alone allows for - yet HD-DVD doesn't make a "huge" leap in the quest for greater space. Remember Laserdiscs would split movies up between discs to keep them in high quality - HD-DVD dual layer discs are 30GB? That's less then half the size of a standard HDD. Also remember if you want to reduce piracy, you should release a movie in a higher format then can be easily ripped. HVD has claimed they will exceed 1TB discs - now I'd like to see a consumer rip and pirate THAT! a movie on a 1TB disc could be presented uncompressed - and still be of a quality equal to cinema. Boost it up with some lossless video and audio compression and the disc will probably hold information in greater then cinema quality, and it's good business because consumers can't easily copy it (even if they crack your encryption).

I wonder if they'll try regional-lockout again? Surely it'll be ruled illegal within 6 months if they do.

Originally posted by: Trooperman

I want to pick a couple with great interest in the project, as well as one person that likes fan edits but hasn't heard of the changes in advance. I'd like these people to get me a written report as to what (if anything) was jarring in terms of editing, pacing, or dialogue. Then, I can implement any changes into the much more time-consuming dual-layer encode for general release. The first version could also hold over those of you who are losing sleep because this isn't in their DVD player yet (where are you, MTH?)

Sound good to you?

-TM

Originally posted by: shanep
boreddusty hehee. That has triple meaning here!

Darth Richard
It was a joke. As in: window dressing and Ranch(house) flavour. Get it?

Originally posted by: pupil


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1080p

Essentially, Blu-ray has the ability to display video at either 24/50/60Hz, like Film or PAL/NTSC TV signals, so depending at what frame rate the footage was filmed/produced it can be put onto Blu-Ray disc at whatever speed it needs to be in, either 24/25/30fps. I'm hoping that over time, especially as the whole HD thing is adopted en masse, we will see a universal frame rate accepted. The whole resolution thing is not an issue anymore as everything will be at 1920×1080 (for 1080 naturally).

PAL and NTSC are really terms used to define the colour encoding systems in analogue TV signals, but is used (kinda incorrectly) to describe resolution and frame rate, but it's not a term that is appropriate for HD signals. The only difference between regions now for HD is the frame rate.

The 24Hz Disc is for Blu-ray only though. HD DVD doesn't allow this, it's still holding on dearly to the old DVD technology of 50 or 60HZ only. IMHO the MAIN reason that Blu-ray should be the successor and not HD DVD.

All this is to my understanding though, correct me if I'm wrong, I'm no expert

Originally posted by: Hal 9000
I agree with Darth Richard. It sounds like LFL really does want to release them nicely and give them what they deserve. Lucas himself, however, is doing what he can to prevent that.

And sadly, he can do a lot.

Originally posted by: boreddusty
Ranch window dressing???

Originally posted by: pupil


It exists (but better) and it's called Blu-Ray at 1080p/24.


.... and all this is wildly off topic.

Originally posted by: greencapt


Money, money, money, money, money!!!!



Now THAT would be worth it!