Oh, yeah, that's definitely a valid argument. Although it seemed from poita's comment that he knows for a fact that the decryption can be broken, so maybe the method just didn't spread yet.
dvdmike said:
Harmy said:
So, DCP can now be ripped? That's good news for stuff like this, where the DCP is far better than an existing official release but bad news for the film-makers - it means there are probably going to be perfect 1080p or even 4K pirate encodes of perfect quality online as soon as the movies hit theaters and that's bad.
I still doubt this has if they can be bigger newer films would be about I think this might have been unlocked
I'm sorry, I've read this through three times and I still can't make any sense of it at all. Could you try to rephrase it?
It definitely would be a good thing but from what I hear, most of the better pre-home-video-release pirate releases actually come from people working in cinemas, so if the DCPs can be broken, I'm afraid they probably will be, very soon after they hit cinemas. But maybe they'll come up with some additional protection to keep that from happening. I think it would be a tragedy, especially for smaller films - not many people are willing to watch movies recorded in a cinema with a shaky camera, so the losses from that, while probably not negligible, are not huge and by the time the film hits BD, it's usually earned quite a bit but if a good quality copy made its way to the internet this early, it could really hit the profits badly. Just a few years ago there was a case of this Czech film, which was expected to be quite successful (within the constraints of such a small market anyway) but it leaked on-line in DVD quality and it bombed in the box office, most likely because of that.
As to the screenshots, I only need my eyes to tell me they are not identical - they evidently come from the same original digital source but the WOWOW definitely has more compression artifacts.
So, DCP can now be ripped? That's good news for stuff like this, where the DCP is far better than an existing official release but bad news for the film-makers - it means there are probably going to be perfect 1080p or even 4K pirate encodes of perfect quality online as soon as the movies hit theaters and that's bad.
Well, if all goes well, I should be able to get through the worst school stuff by March or April, so that's when I could start doing some more work on ESB and ROTJ and if I stick to my original plan v2.0s could be done in a matter of a month or two. Those would be far superior to the v1.0s in that they'd be sourced from the BDs and have better encoding, color correction and a bit more despecialization and then I could take my sweet time working on v2.5s, knowing that that there are already the v2.0 versions out there, which are at least on the same level of picture quality as the latest version of Star Wars. But I can't really make any promises.
Not currently. I'm currently working on not getting kicked out of school as my primary occupation, doing my teaching job properly as a secondary one and finishing the SW DeEd docs as a tertiary one. All else is currently on ice.
That looks awesome!
You wouldn't happen to be Old Firehand, would you? :-D
Welcome to the forum, by the way :-)
Well, I thought about that, and the foreign languages wouldn't be a problem, because when selecting tracks with remote, you can see the language of the track but then you have 4 different commentaries, an isolated score track, commentary for blind and stuff, which all need description.
I must agree with this. I'd love to see the original heroes but I'd prefer to see them in supporting roles.
Really? I loved Argo.
Humby said:
I was in high school when ROTS came out, so I'm kind of the in between generation, where I was raised on the originals but I also just young enough to be 'wide eyed' about the prequels. I remember my dad taking me to see TPM and I loved it. Then when AotC came out, I was a little older and wiser, and I still enjoyed it but something about it didn't sit right with me. By the time RotS came out, I understood that these movies were never going to be as good or culturally relevant as the originals. I sat through it, and I enjoyed it, but in the end, it felt like an empty shell.
In the years since, I have trouble sitting all the way through any of the prequels. TPM is probably my favorite, because I think it best captured some of the original spirit and fun of Star Wars. Sure, it has a pretty bad child actor, an annoying cartoon rabbit, and seems to be packed full of plot holes and poor writing, but it none the less had a sense of discovery, and fun moments.
This is my story exactly, to the last letter :-)
By the way, has anyone actually tried making and exporting the menu in multiAVCHD? Because here it says this:
Menu support:
Maximum number of titles: 252
Maximum number of hidden titles: 251
Maximum number of subtitles per title: 32
Maximum number of chapters per title: 96
>> Maximum number of audio tracks per title: 32
Welcome screen / Intro title: 1
When you preview the menu in multiAVCHD, it shows only six tracks in that small box but that is only static preview with no actual functions, so I thought maybe, when you create the menu, it might actually scroll down to the others but I have yet to figure out a way to test this without actually creating and burning the whole disc.
Interesting idea, but I don't really think I will use it, unless I really have no other option.
I don't know, hopefully sometime in February.
Well, I was thinking that having several different language subtitles would be great but only if it wouldn't mean a big delay (and there are bound to be some deviations from the scripts in the final docs, so the subtitles can't really be done until the docs are finished).
Yeah, that is far too green, I think. It looks to be pre-color correction samples.
PMs sent
Hairy_hen told me he'd give it a shot, so hopefully, he'll find the time :-)
PM sent.
So, I finally found a little free time to finish the scripts for all the extras for the v2.5 BD release, except the one about sound-mixes, which I just can't do, as I don't have a deep enough understanding of it to do it properly.
Now, I'd like a few volunteers (preferably native speakers) to read my scripts and check for consistency and some grammar mistakes I might have made. I'd also prefer people I already know, because I'd like to be sure the scripts won't leak before the docs are done :-)
I also need someone to look at the scripts and write one in similar spirit for the sound doc.
I'm 25 years old and I don't recognize anyone in that picture, exacept for Hamill, Ford and Fisher and Cyrus (and that only because she was on Two and a Half Men last year).
Also, I never noticed the lens flares in either Abrams' Star Trek film before they were pointed out (even in STID, when I saw it first in the cinema in 3D, I already knew about the whole lens flare debate about ST09 and I still was too engaged in what was happening on the screen, to notice any lens flares, let alone be distracted by them) and I think the lens flare is a very good way to make VFX look real to our brains - it was used in Blade Runner and Close Encounters and E.T. and even Star Wars to great effect and it works really well even with green-screen digital effects.
Yes, exactly, there are some parts, which like I said, would have to be replaced with IPs or some such.
In my opinion, the ideal way to do a restoration of the original SW with the access to all the archives would be to use the original negative wherever possible for the luma information. Even if they did actually cut up the negative for the SE, they surely did keep the cut parts in a vault, not to do so would be insane, so they could scan those separately. There should be no need for any guessing games of "was this shot recomposited" or "was this wipe redone" because the original bits should be easily recognizable by their markings and the kind of stock used.
And then whereever the o-neg may be too damaged or faded, they should use the next best source, be it an IP or IN or only in the worst case scenario a theatrical print.
All this should be done to reconstruct the o-neg in digital in the best possible quality.
Then they should scan a non-faded print (be it I.B. or LPP), color correct the scan, so the colors correspond to the print being projected with a 70s projection light bulb and then apply only the color information from this to their reconstructed negative.
Then a carefully controlled cleanup should be done to remove any remaining dirt and scratches but keep the grain structure of the negative intact.
And then SW would be ready for not only BD but also a 4K release (provided the work was done in 4K of course).
But I'm afraid that a release like that is just a pipe dream.
Well, I must say that if the only problem with the release was that it has the 1981 crawl, that certainly wouldn't be a deal breaker for me. An iTunes only release on the other hand, definitely would. I seriously don't understand, why someone would be willing to pay nearly the same price as for a BD to download a 4GB 1080p with vastly inferior sound and little to no extras. I've had the opportunity to see a few iTunes encodes and they were horribly compressed - the only kind of film, where this kind of compression wouldn't matter much would be a CGI animated film with no grain, so an iTunes only release of Star Wars would be a total slap in the face.
And a simple scan of an IB print with no further work done on it would also not be a satisfactory release - you have to do color correction on a scan, to make sure the colors correspond to the way the print looks when projected. The prints are pretty old, so there would be dust and scratches and stuff, that should be cleaned up (although admittedly a wet gate scan could take care of most of those) and even with just that, it would be an acceptable release, but definitely not a good one.