Harmy

To me, the blu-ray looks by far the best - sure, the waxines is a problem, but since it still has way more detail, adding some grain should solve that. And even the HDTV seems to have more detail - the problem there is the compression, which eats a lot of the detail up. Check out the handlebars on this picture:
http://www.framecompare.com/screenshotcomparison/J1BJCNNU

But is there less image on top and bottom or more on the sides? Or something in between?

Can that be done? And would it yield a 10 or even 12 bit image? That would be awesome!
As for whether this changes anything for Despecialized, yes, the change is that I will now definitely be waiting for the 4K Blu-Ray or at least a full bitrate 4k web-dl as a source.

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.

There were definitely some recomps done for 2004 - for example the introduction of the imperial fleet in TESB. Would be curious if they recomped it again for 19SE or kept the original compositing.

Rodney-2187 said:

Harmy said:

http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/J1BEFNNU

The Disney+ frame looks the best to me, but I am completely unqualified to properly evaluate.

The Despecialized will continue to be my prefered, because I just can’t stand the special edition changes. I don’t need to see Jedi Rocks any clearer.

Yeah, it looks the best to me too but by a surprisingly small margin considering that both 4K77 and DeEd are scanned from theatrical prints and DeEd is 720p.
But hopefully soon, someone will post some screens of the highest bit rate 4K stream from D+, so we can see properly.

http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/J1BEFNNU

Could it be that for both the 4K and the 2004 masters, this reel of ROTJ was scanned from the same non-ONeg source, which already got blurred when being copied? This is only way I can see that would explain the lack of fine detail in both, if they are different scans.

If that’s the case, which honestly, it probably is, then the quality of it seems to be pretty bad. I’ll probably be sticking to the BD for Despecialized because at least there we know what changes were made to it and the quality seems comparable, if not better.

I’d really like someone to post a comparison screenshot of that ROTJ Luke shot from 4K83 and DEED v2.5. Can’t do it myself right now as I’m at work.

Looking at the screenshots posted so far, it does look like a new master but not necessarily a new scan, because the clarity/detail level is comparable to or worse than the 2004 masters.
It might be that they simply found the 2004 digital masters before the color grading and sharpening and upscaled them and gave them a new grade, which would have been necessary for HDR anyway.

Wow, that’s so cool! To me, it looks a lot more like the ESB Yoda than the puppet in TLJ.

Pretty sure the first one is 16mm, which is a very different aesthetic - but they definitely look awesome 😃

I’m looking at their website and they’re offering fairly expensive premium but it doesn’t say what the limits of free uploads/downloads are. I need somewhere, where I can upload large files for free but also where people can download them for free with relative ease. Uloz.to used to be it but no more 😦

Omg, that’s awful 😄

Actually, lots of the links are dead now, I have to reupload the files. The best bet currently is public torrent trackers. I’m still looking for a good alternative to uloz.to.

Yeah, no problem 😊

Blutopia looks like a private torrent tracker - not something you could just provide links to.
GDrive and Mega both have data limits but I guess I could create a new account for each film.

And another question. What is currently the best place to upload to? Lots of my uloz links died and if there’s a better place to use for the uploads, I’d rather not re-upload to uloz.

Well, the descriptive audio I included was the only version I ever found. If someone can supply a better one, I’d be happy to replace it in the future.

Also, guys, I need to contact g-force and he’s not replying to any of my messages. Does anybody here have an email or some other contact for him? If so, please PM me. Thanks!

I personally only watch 3D at home. The 3D in theaters is usually murky and there’s ghosting, so I gave up on that. But at home on the 120" projection screen, it helps to make it feel more like a real theatrical experience, since when watching 3D, I kinda lose the sense of the actual size of the screen, so it sort of smears the difference between sitting close to a smaller screen at home and sitting further away from a large screen in a theater. So I’m not happy at all that home 3D is dying. Luckily, unlike TVs, most new projectors are still 3D capable and so are most new BD players.

I tried and FreeRapid doesn’t see the links but JDownloader does after installing the latest updates, so it’s likely that in a while, FreeRapid will get updated too.

Yes it is. I’ve just had a lot going on in my live both personally and professionally, so I haven’t had much time.

That would be great!

Exactly.

Well, yeah, on a 4:3 display, the BTS would be window-boxed even in the purist version. But making a version for 4:3 displays in this day and age would be kind of ridiculous.