Harmy

http://www.videohelp.com/software/tsmuxer

This program will create a BD ISO for you - no transcoding so the quality is kept and it only takes few minutes.

None of the releases so far has been completely GOUT-free and I'm afraid v2.0 of Jedi won't be either but the GOUT presence should be absolutely minimal.

What's more interesting is that among his videos is also a couple of video of screenings of Star Wars, which are clearly German too and in the description he claims it's a Technicolor print and from the colors in the videos it seems believable - so were there tech prints made for other European countries than just Britain?

The sample is compressed to hell. You need at least 100MB/s for 4K to look decent with h264 and even then it will crap up the detail and smudge grain. That is why they came up with HEVC for the 4K content.

Oh, yeah, definitely the BD will be used. And commentaries will be included.

The new sources will be Team N1's 35mm scans and possibly Puggo's 16mm.

Audio will be the same as the other 2.x releases except I don't think there's a mono mix of Jedi.

Or one of those fancy new 4K BD players ;-)

Probably for v2.0 already.

Yeah, that's definitely a lens flare - always been there.

I'm sorry, I don't follow. Do you mean the lens flare? Also, this belongs in the ESB thread.

http://www.dvd-guides.com/guides/blu-ray-copy/260-burn-blu-ray-avchd-using-imgburn

Yes, just like the push for 3D TVs - pretty much every TV today, except for the most low end ones, is 3D, just like pretty much all TVs within a couple of years will be 4K.

And sure, 4K BDs will be for cinefiles only but isn't that what most of us are here - most non-cinefiles were pretty happy with the GOUT after all :-)

And while 4K BD may be pretty niche, 4K streaming is catching on pretty fast.

By this, I'm not saying you should necessarily do this project in 4K, because sourced from prints, 4K as a final output may actually be a bit of an over-kill and 4K makes everything much harder to deal with and you need super-powerful hardware if the work's not to become awfully frustrating (I would know, I deal with 4K on a daily basis), I'm just pointing out that your reasoning behind why not to go 4K is flawed.

Well, I have a 4K 58" TV and I brought it home through the front door :D
And as soon as they come down in price a bit, I'm getting a 4K projector for my 135" projection screen (which I also brought home through the front door).

4K BD players are already officially announced and the number of people with 4K TVs is growing rapidly.

I'd also like to point out that I typed the previous msg on my phone after having drunk 5 glasses of wine in abouz two hours, so you'll have to exuse the typos :-)

OK, here's the report: Even though it was the '97 SE as expected, even though I was sitting in the 9th row and the tallest guy in the theater was sitting right in front of me, so I was in dire need of binoculars/periscope, it was still an amazing experience.

I noticed that Hoth was surprisingly white and Dagobah surprisingly blue but over-all, I'd say the colors in ESB v 2.0 are pretty good.

Going into more detail, Hoth was very white (actually almost yellowish) in the highlights and very blue in the shadows. Dagobah was pretty much blue/cyan tinted throughout. One other thing I noticed was that all the "empire shots" (abord Star Destroyers, AT-ATs) were distinctly teal-orange tinted. Another thing was that Vader's lightsaber was more orange that red and Luke's was pretty desaturated blue (with no hint of teal). And over-all, the freezing chamber shots were less saturated than I'd expect.

Another important thing I was watching out for were matte-boxes in non-recomped shots. I definitelly saw some because I was paying close attention and looking for them, so they are visible on 35mm prints, but they were nowhere near as obvious as on the BD and other home-video releases.

But we are talking about the '97 SE here and also the whole thing was clearly too dark (very little shadow detail to be seen), so I don't think the bulb brightness was quite right, so this is no definitive proof of anything, but I still made some interesting observations and I definitely had a good time :-)

I'm on my way to Prague where I've been invited to attend a 35mm screening of TESB. I expect it will be the 97SE but it should still be pretty cool.

It's part both - the color "correction" done to the BD can only be undone to a certain degree and sometimes things like that get revealed when you change the flat colors of the BD.

I certainly hope to, if I can get a 35mm source for that.

Hmmm, boobies! Harmy like! Must buy!

I know. And it doesn't - only has one HDMI connector.

Great! Thank you!

MPC HC with Mad VR. I use Any DVD HD to decode BDs, so that I can play them in MPC as well and the results are far better than when I play them in my BD player - less banding, less visible compression artiifacts, more detail, plus FFDshow allows me to add grain, which helps a lot with hiding DNR and compression artifacts.

yoda-sama said:

Congrats on making the jump to projecting, Harmy.  Which model projector did you choose and what did you go with on the rest of your setup (receiver, screen, etc.)?

I have a Benq W1070+ DLP. It's decent but I can't wait for 4K projectors to become more affordable - I have a 10ft roll-down Elite Screens screen (135" diameter) and my viewing distance is about two meters (6.5ft) and I feel like the screen could still be bigger (I'm one of those people who prefer to sit in the first few rows in the cinema) but at this size and distance, the pixel grid is pretty noticeable on a 1080p projector (as it is in cinemas that still have 2K projectors).

I bought 5 pairs of 3D glasses with it and the 3D is fantastic - way better than on my 58" 4K Panasonic TV - no ghosting whatsoever and the colors are also really good after some adjustment.

As for sound, I have a Panasonic 5.1 BD Home Theater system - nothing fancy but it has a 3D BD player and the sound is really good (at least to my ears). 

I play most movies from my computer hooked to the projector via HDMI for picture and to the Panasonic HT system's audio receiver via toslink. I could also use my BD player but this is actually simpler and produces better quality image, so I usually only use the BD player for stuff that requires menu (like extras) or for 3D BDs.

And I agree that without a new version on the horizon, continually bitching about colors on SW is now bordering on beating a dead horse.  Everyone should focus their opinions on Jedi right now and after that on Empire when V2.5 (with even less GOUT and correct credits) comes into focus.  Never your minds on where we are, what we are doing, you are all reckless.

 Thanks!

Literally nothing has happened on the ROTJ front lately - I've been super busy, plus I've been waiting on some new hardware to arrive (should hopefully be getting it this week). Which is why I unfortunately have no May the 4th present for you guys this year.

I just told Team N1 I'd be happy to help them but nothing much has happened there yet either. I did get some more scans (albeit it far from all of them) and I'll definitely be posting some samples as soon as I get some cleanup done.

There have been some fairly exciting developments on the original Star Wars front but I'll have to keep those under wraps for a while.