Darth Richard

Originally posted by: ShiftyEyes
Lowry Digital only cleaned the SE prints. They never touched the OOT.

Originally posted by: Rebel Rouser


If I had to guess (DISCLAIMER: and this is purely a guess, with no real concrete knowledge) I'd say that the fact that these are considered "Bonus Features" will exempt them from a lot.

Originally posted by: Coov


I can keep from releasing them if you want. i have not released the high res ones yet.

Originally posted by: 20th Century Mark



Now that made me laugh! I needed that after all this OOT shit going on around here!

Originally posted by: boreddusty

haha nice.

I guess if LFL end up releasing a flippin' sweet set next year, I'll just have to buy them again.

I am starting to regret preordering them, although with the free shipping, rebates, and the 10% off code (FYE) they really aren't going to be that expensive...

I know that's not the point, though. The point is that we shouldn't even be having this discussion because the September releases should be anamorphic!

Originally posted by: Coov
...and now, something different....

Originally posted by: Jobel
I hate PAL anyway, with it's 4% speedup and higher pitched sound. I always import R1 NTSC because of this.

Originally posted by: iamstillhiro1112
What you are asking for is for the movie to not only be in the original perspective but you want to be able to toggle that perspective to be something else. If you want a pure experience then stop asking for them to make it toggleble. The movie reels were never Anamorphic and there is no way to have made them that way. So stop asking for him to make DVD's that way. Yes, you can make the dvd support all of a DVD players options but that doesn't make it any truer to the original movie. That is the main reason to buy the release.

P.S. I read the anamophic faq things posted in the forum days earlier so get off the subject.

Originally posted by: Gorram
Ahhh, now this is the problem, some people want fixes (sbres matte lines etc.) other people consider those types of fixes unacceptable and leading down the path to the SEs anyway.

If we could just convince ILM to give us a straight ananmorphic film transfer, then there are plenty of people who could put the fixes in later.

If they don't do a straight film transfer, people can't take the fixes back out again.

There is no way Lucasfilm would go to the big trouble to meet that list (although I'd love it if they did) it would be far too much time and money, but a straight transfer would be relatively cheap and quick to do - it would keep the hardcore fan base happy (that want it with NO changes of any description) and give the rest of us the raw material to just do the fixes that suit each of us (which will probably be different for each person), it would be nice if the different audio mixes were available too, but we already have an excellent PCM track on the laserdiscs and I'd prefer to see a maximum video quality on these releases.

Originally posted by: yanksno1

Exactly. Lucass is known for going back on his word, so I don't think the fight is over.

I suspect we'll get something new next year as well. The fact that he's releasing them this september tells me something. I agree with the post above this is probably a ploy to sell all those unsold 2004 DVDs. The fact that the 30th anniversary is NEXT year, well I have a hard time believing this is the only OOT release we'll see. I have a feeling he'll do something nice for that and hopefully fix the 2004 versions as well (yes more changes, but the set is broken). Next year I'm seeing a new box set with the PT, 2004 (hopefully fixed), and OOT cleaned up and in an anamorphic transfer with a bunch of extras we haven't gotten yet. Hell, we already know the footage exsists, it's IN THE EMPIRE OF DREAMS DOCUMENTARY for crying out loud.

EDIT: Spelling.

Originally posted by: Brimley


That is a really interesting idea...but how do you explain why the DS2 is suddenly at Endor? It may be a neat exercise, though.

Originally posted by: Scruffy
The films, or his heirs? Or both?

Originally posted by: jack Spencer Jr


Or Marcia if that heresay is true, but, well, you know.

Chances are, that is a very real possibility. We now have a fully restored King Kong thanks to remastering and lost footage found and all that to put back in what the censors took out. It may be that our children and our children's children will have to suffer with the SE's but seventy or so years after Lucas eventually kicks the bucket, the original version will be restored to the public. Why? Because at that point, the smokescreen of "artistic vision" will be seen as tha sham it is *AND* the CGI in the SE will not look so hot anymore (if they ever did) so the only people interested in the films will be those looking at them from a historical perspective, which means the originals will be what they want, and they'll get them if they have to painstakinging reconstruct the visual information by hand.