Harmy

Sorry, I see what you mean. Thanks :-)

So what? vbangle was wrong two years ago and thus the hostility?

What's with the hostility? I don't see anything wrong with that answer. This year is soon compared to three years or ten years but it's not soon compared to next week, so it seems like a completely valid answer to that question.

Well, I recently had a chance to compare it to the BD sitting close to my 27" LCD 1080p monitor and to be quite honest, in movement there is quite a noticeable difference in resolution. But I guess if you weren't sitting with your nose on the screen, the difference would be quite minimal.

Basically just Puggo Strikes Back plus some of the original matte paintings that were on the 2011 BD.

All the replacement track links at tehparadox show up as online in JDownloader.

Oh, BTW. I heartily recommend JDownloader 2. It's still a beta but it works great and is much better than the old one.

I think Samuel L. Jackson wouldn't do a TV series.

Glad to hear it :-)

Well, that's only true to a certain degree, since if that was indeed the case, then it should logically follow that a complete GOUT upscale, like DJ and You_Too's Project Blu, is the best version to watch - and for many it may well be but not for me. Adywan actually gave the same reason to refuse to do his ESB Theatrical Reconstruction in HD back in the day. My main reason for doing 720p was always my computer not being up to the task and the quality of elements matching better was more of an advantage of the decision that was already made for other reasons - at one point I was actually considering trying to do v2.0 at 1080p but seeing what is shown in the pictures above, I decided that there wasn't much point to it, especially since it would mean super slow work and horribly long rendering times.

TheBoost said:

Commutes and yardwork are significantly less lame now. 

Exactly!

That, plus there isn't that much more resolution on the 1080p BD to begin with; here's a screenshot from the BD, showing a cut-out at the original 1080p resolution and next to it is an image that has been scaled down to 720p and then upscaled to 1080p:

And here's a comparison between the DeEd v2.0 and the BD:

What are you talking about, embarrassment? I love audio books (only if they're unabridged mind you). I practically stopped reading any other way. Audio books are awesome; You can read with your eyes closed. You can turn dull work like shoveling or rotoscoping from a bottomless pit of terrible boredom into a fun time well spent. Audio books really help when I'm doing roto work - hours and hours spent shifting dots around on a computer - very easy work that doesn't require a lot of focus most of the time but is horribly tedious - but having an audio book on makes it great. I only regret that as far as I know there are no unabridged Zahn Star Wars audio books other than the Thrawn trilogy. Am I wrong?

Mostly, yes, sometimes I change the resizing method based on the type and quality of video I'm watching. I use MadVR mainly because its full-screen exclusive mode is the only way to avoid tearing on my computer without using the very inconvenient D3D full-screen function offered by the other renderers.

Well, that is interesting about the colors. I personally use MPC with MadVR, so that's what I'm seeing and thus what's intended by me.

As to the sharpness, in switching between the first two screenshots, I don't see any difference in sharpness - and that's how it should be - the image is already sharpened a bit to compensate for the 1080p to 720p conversion, so the third shot seems oversharpened to me but I guess it comes down to personal preference, if you like it sharpened like that, it's of course up to you, but the intended sharpness is as is in the first two screenshots. Also note that further sharpening the picture will bring out compression artifacts and the sharpen complex shader (be it 1 or 2) in my experience has some weird side effects too.

So, some time ago msycamore pointed out that in the SE more shake was added to a few shots when the Falcon is caught in the tractor beam. I knew it would be really difficult to remove without removing the original shake as well, so I left it alone. But recently I saw a direct comparison of the two and the added shake is so violent that I decided to go through it and remove the added shake manually frame by frame and here's the result:

http://uloz.to/x9Si3nS/shake-sample-mp4

wabid said:

Respectfully I disagree with you on all counts. I see the difference and so do others. These releases need to be kept "archival grade" IMHO, you can never get back what is lost.

Then it should be released as a 1080p 40gb mpeg2, or even some lossless codec.  Pretending a 720p 15gb mp4 is archival grade is silly.

You being able to see the difference is more placebo than anything.  You really do need comparison software to see the difference.  The "tiny faction" is people who can actually see a difference, although plenty claim to.

If an archival grade copy is important Harmy should release a HUGE lossless encode into the wild.  It is overkill for 99.99% of use cases, but just having access to it benefits many people.  If it were 1080p, then yes, 15 gigs would be necessary, but since 720p is half the resolution, 8 is plenty.

 

That's not strictly true - while I myself must admit to see little difference here between the AVCHD and the MKV, it really depends on the size of screen you're watching it on and of course the viewing distance - there is a clear difference between a 16GB 1080p and a full BD encode - while the 16GB version is likely to look great, the BD will look even better, especially with grainy film, because grain is hard to compress, so it stands to reason that with half the resolution, you need half the size - that is 8GB for very good quality, 15-20GB for retail BD quality compression-vise. A 40GB 1080p would of course be pointless, since I've been working at 720p from step one, so it would have to be an upscale, but I don't think BD25 size is an overkill for 720p (the mkv release is a BD25 size once you add lossless audio, menus and some extras).

I'm sorry guys. It seems v2.1 is bound for a 2013 release.

Well, that's always good to hear :-)

And the latest version on spleen should be v2.0 for SW and v1.0 for ESB and ROTJ.

It can't be tsmuxer - there's no conversion involved in changing the frame rate in tsmuxer, it simply slows it down but every single frame remains the same as before.

Merry Christmas to you guys :-)

I finally got this downloaded and I must say it's one of the best LD transfers I've seen to date - it has very little noise compared to moth3r's transfer of the PAL LD and it has a lot of detail, plus I like that it's a 720p upscale, because it makes it possible to keep all the extra resolution PAL offers over NTSC and at the same time it can be 23.976 fps. Great job!

You said it!

Just so we're clear, there will be no other color changes than those shown. There will be no change to the over-all coloring, just a few select shots.

Well, sure, if I can get it.

Oh, wow, I never even noticed it in that post and I read it really slowly several times too...