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Harlock415

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#193463
Topic
Curbing Fanfilm/Edit Piracy
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/193463/action/topic#193463
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I was thinking of going to Sac Con, but gas, weather being iffy, and being broke kept me. Yes I was at Wonderconad and I saw the same thing. I actually bought the Superman II edit from the guy for $10 after I said I alread had an edit. So he slashed the price. I figured it may be a different version. Same edit but witjhout menues, and without the bonus soundtrack.

Not sure what can be done. It's not like we can sue or anything, but unfortuanately there are enough fans who are willing to shell out $20 or more for DVDs that people like OCP and Dr Gonzo did for free. They are extrememly overpriced, and I think that just carging between$5 -- at most $10 is more than enough to recover cost. $10 to recover cost of running a table. It's ironic when pirates are being pirated. Arrrrh. Maybe a popup during the middle of the movie or just before the movie starts "If you paid for this, you've been ripped off." or "this is for fans, by fans, spread this freely, don't charge."

I know that NYC has a disclaimer on his Blade Runner HD Edit.
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#193445
Topic
Natalie Portman in V for Vendetta
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/193445/action/topic#193445
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I've seen it. She actually does an acting performance in this movie. In fact, 10 minutes of her in V is more acting than she had ever done in almost seven hours of Star Wars.

And I really liked the movie a lot. It does a good job of adapting the Alan Moore graphic novel. Of course, some corners had to be cut, but the themes and the message about public complacency and fascism is still there. I managed to catch it with a preview audience during Wondercon. Even got a few Guy Falkes masks out of it. I'll be seeing it again on opening night on an IMAX screen.
And if you go there expecting an action comic book movie just because it's based on a comic book you'll be disappointed. It is a thoughtful science fiction film that has a lot to say about what direction the world could head toward if we let it.

I think it could symbolyze our struggle to preserve the O-OT when the powers that be do their best to re-write history and say they don't exist. Of course I wouldn't go so far as to blow up Skywalker Ranch, like V wanting to blow up Parlaiment.
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#193155
Topic
Frustrated with DVD burning
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/193155/action/topic#193155
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I've been having some problems with OCP's movies using Verbatim 16x and burning at 4x. I think I read on the afterdawn forum it's not good to burn at too low a speed, but to burn at half the rated speed. Is this true?

I don't have this skipping and freezing problem on my backups of other movies which I burn at the same method, 4x on 16x Verbatim media.
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#193116
Topic
Star Wars becoming "mainstream" and "popular"
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/193116/action/topic#193116
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It emptied out like any other movie. A few of us stuck around, but by the time the lights came up, there were only a handfull of us left.

Like I said before, the midnight show of Serenity had more dedicated fans I think, mainly because it still had a cult staus to it and if you were gonna see Serenity at midnigth, you were definitely a true fan.
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#192955
Topic
Original Trilogy DVD my ideas
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/192955/action/topic#192955
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I'll add another vote to OCP's verson simply because it shows what the DVD's could have been. It could have been a contender, instead of a bum which is what it is.

But as far as LD fan preservations are concerned, I have the Dr Gonzo set which is darn good.

I would love to get either Citizen's or Moth3rs. But I also hear that EditDroid's is good also. Stick around, you'll find a lot to talk about and learn from some very hard working individuals. Right now, I'm following the XOproject by Zion.
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#192668
Topic
TheForce.net
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/192668/action/topic#192668
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While I can still withstand the Basher's sanctuary, I get annoyed by the PT gushers that try to invade one of the last bastions of freedom at TFN. And even then, the rules say talk about the movies, not the fans. But it's the "fans" that have pumped money into the bill of goods that Lucas has been peddling for years now. And I've seen how some of the mods react to sarcasm that is anything but gushing or kissing up to the revisionist history that LFL is forcing down our throats. It's as if TFN is scarred of the long arm of Lucas coming down on them for encouraging dissent.

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#192363
Topic
Star Wars becoming "mainstream" and "popular"
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/192363/action/topic#192363
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It totally irks me that not only is Star Wars mainstream, but it is marketed and made for the lowest demoniation. In other words, served up for mass consumption like Big Macs. Sure the crap makes a lot of money, but like Shakespeare says, it is full of sound and fury signifying nothing. When Star Wars came out in 1977, there was no wait for video mentality. You had to see it again, you saw it in the theater. And you often saw the same people at the theaters time and again. But in the era of the mega blockbuster where midnight shows are a regularity, Star Wars, especially the Prequels are now just big bloated movies. The numbers fall off as soon as the next big movie comes along.

I too was there at the midnight show of ROTS with my club and we dressed up had fun, but the majority of the fans were Poser fans, just along for the ride, slumming it with the geeks. As soon as the credits started rolling, half the theater empties. Over the weekend the audience was even more indifferent, because we were doing some promotions and giveaways with the the theater, many were uninterested in the prizes, or the giveaways. When we tried to pump up the crowd, the best we got was a lukewarm reception. And this was the Saturday after opening night.

I run into fans all the time, the "Star Wars - Rocks" fans who were not there from the beginninbg, grew up with it and loved it like we do. Poser fans, jumping on a bandwagon who will blindly scarf up the next value meal that Lucas has to offer without a complaint.

In contrast, Serenity which did absolutle nowhere near the business of ROTS, had a wild enthusiastic crowd in the midnight show. And I don't remember ever seeing an entire auditorium sit through the ending credits of any movie. But I don't think a single person got up until the lihghts came on.
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#186846
Topic
STAR WARS: The Torrents thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/186846/action/topic#186846
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Originally posted by: arcadayn
I just finished downloading OCPmovies ESB. When I tried to burn this to dvd I got a "dvd video file realloctaion failed" message. I burned the dvd anyway and it plays on my PC, but not on my dvd player (Panasonic DMR ES20). Are there any fixes for this?


I burned it 2 ways, wither by burning as a DVD ROM which had wonky results with my friend's DVD player, but played fine on my computers adn DVD players except for one which Just plain doesn't recognise the disc.

The other way is to run it through DVD-Shrink. I know there's no copy protection or compression necessary, but it seemed to give me the best results and played on all four of my DVD players
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