JadedSkywalker

We haven’t even mentioned the AstroRes upscales, Q-Tec, or even the standard definition blu-ray anime releases.

Toei is almost a meme with their atrocious handling of galaxy express 999 and dragon ball. They fail is so many ways. When a film scan would be more than good enough, they instead use old composite video master they run through DNR.

And you would say fair enough if they don’t have the film anymore, but in a lot of cases they do and just choose not to spend the money.

Or they may have the film but thrown out the audio tapes.

For Galaxy Express I’m speaking of the previous DVD.

There is a new remaster and i’m not sure if the tv series is a film scan or not on the blu-ray, i know the films got new scans and HDR for cinema release. The images shown in samples look good but not film, obvious DNR and grain management. Sharpening via Q-Tec. Its pretty similar to the Yamato remasters in 4K.

Discotek puts out whatever Toei gives them. We never get the same materials in the states. They may be able to do justice in some way to Leiji Matsumoto work but they still haven’t fixed the Harlock situation those haven’t been redone in HD. And Endless Orbit SSX is in terrible condition and needs more than a shitty upscale. A film scan would be nice.

Is there an HDTV Open Matte Star Trek VI? The 4K went back to the scope ratio for both cuts.

There is no Blu-Ray for the Open Matte.

I guess its laserdisc and DVD. I’ve never even seen a 35mm open matte print.

EU purists who insist it was a part of George’s vision and that the prequel and the EU all fits together as one piece.

Who insist the Saga was always about the father, the son and grandchildren. And the bending over backwards and stretching things to act like EU wasn’t just a way for George to make lots of money on tie in fiction. That he was in no way beholden to, but could borrow from if he so desired.

I may agree with them on Disney SW to an extent, and even on Filoni retcons and destruction of the EU lore. But to act like the prequel was perfect and also didn’t destroy SW canon is incongruous. And its George’s vision the original must be suppressed, George as godhead in a religion, I reject that.

There was one continuity and canon I’ll admit that before Disney made the Expanded Universe legends. But Lucasfilm always put films and tv projects above video games, comic books and novels.

And George allowed Filoni to do whatever he wanted and to throw out the EU completely. It’s like there were two Star Wars universes before there were three branches, but Filoni was taken up into Disney Star Wars and EU was abandoned, made Legends aka lies, tall tales.

Mel Brooks style of humor isn’t for everyone. I never much found his films to be all that funny, except for blazing saddles which had me laughing so hard I thought I would rupture my spleen. My mom was a fan of Young Frankenstein and used to quote it all the time and we watched it on tv, but i never laughed at any of the jokes. I may have smiled at one or two. And me and my friend Victor were fans of Spaceballs, but I recently watched and i can’t recall why. We watched that far more than the actual film. Though we both we stunned to see Empire and to watch Luke get his ass handed to him.

Its only as a teen revisiting the SW trilogy that they grew on me except for ROTJ, which was my favorite, but in time I see all the flaws. The teddy bear movie me and my Tomboy sister used to watch until the tape was watched so many times.

And i can’t forget all the times my brother played Vader and i played Skywalker and our mock duels it’s a wonder someone didn’t get killed.

The pan and scan is so good it makes me wish there was official DVD of the Pan and Scan THX master, but all the Bonus discs in 2006 even on the Pan and Scan 2004 master bundled in they were all letterbox bonus discs in 4:3. No full frame.

The master for SW and for ROTJ are so excellent, i do wonder about TESB. And my copy of the laserdisc for JEDI is flawed and scratched a perfect transfer from a clean copy would be wonderful.

They are sharper and better than the THX VHS. Only drawback is the burned in subtitles. The Hong Kong is so superior to all the other pan and scan versions.

I’ve read up on the whole Domesday thing and the AstroRes method and its quite interesting, like for OVA anime that no film source exists anymore.

It’s not something i can get into because just buying the equipment much less securing the harder to find laserdiscs, I couldn’t find Emissary period in over a year of looking online.

There has been a complete run on all of Kevin Kobos stock since now everyone knows he offers them for the cheapest price. And everyone and their uncle is now into hoarding and collecting Japanese laserdisc.

There is content on laserdisc worth preserving. Mostly music concerts and such, live music orchestra recordings. Music videos, OVA. Most of the reason for laserdisc still even being a thing is for original edits of films and original sound mixes. Plus some shows did get DVD releases but with horrible Mpeg encodes. And never redone.

Deep Space Nine and Voyager do need the fan remasters.

Very good quality. That is the best version of Emissary I’ve seen so far. Without access to the actual 35mm film reels and a 2k scan.

https://ew.com/rian-johnson-scrapped-star-wars-trilogy-knives-out-11771734

And I’m laughing that is never even had an outline or treatment. It was just another series of Lucasfilm vapor ware.

I didn’t watch it straight from the beginning but i did watch it from 1:52.00 to the credits and it was fine. The new one you provided.

I was enjoying the end of the film tremendously.

You mean to tell me the only way to get the Mono audio is off Laserdisc or VHS, what in the name of heck were they thinking.

Thank you so much for being so helpful.

Prints of the adapted scope used to appear all the time in 16mm. I do wonder why they hardly ever come up anymore for auction.

As far as I know, and I’m not in the loop only the grindhouse for the Italian cut IB tech was released to donors.

And since I’m not a donor I’m not even sure an HD scan was shared.

There was a combo project on the web at some point in DVD quality using the scan with the laserdisc and the blu-ray to fill in gaps and replace the Italian screens with English ones.

Its quite unfortunate you have the choice to buy the Blu-Ray if you don’t already have it, i have the DVD. Or you can watch a DVD from the laserdisc if you can find one on some place like usenet or something.

But there is no quality release that isn’t some fanedit. And if you want something in retail HD quality you can forget about it.

If American Graffiti and THX 1138 were Star Wars we’ve already have a 4K 71 and a 4k73, a 4k77 THX and 4k78 Graffiti original director’s cuts.

Its not just the lack of interest its Disney Lucasfilm, and fear of their litigious nature. And the fact there is an official 4K for American Graffiti which is the 1998 cut redone with DVNR and a 5.1 mix. But has the redone credits and cgi sunset. And people don’t want to jump the gun because Warner’s is likely planning an official 4K for THX 1138 with George Lucas of the 2004 cut.

It’s a DVD recorder setup he would have to watch the film again and rerecord it to a new DVDR disc.

I would be quite peeved myself. As one doesn’t know where in the chain the glitch happened. And it’s strange that the rest of the film from the beginning up to that point is completely fine.

Jason is going to check the file from .bin to ISO. Maybe he can make heads or tails of it, if not it will have to rerecorded.

Edit: Whelp it was not the BIN to ISO conversion. I’ll wait to see what enater has to say.

Nope you’re right the file has an issue in Leawo it misses Luke’s and company run on the trench and literally skips to Ben telling Luke to trust him.

Some kind or corruption in the file, i hate to have to say so.

VLC literally quits out for me after that point in the film. Can you tell me what Sofware you are using for playback.

Thank you for sharing this and the cover art.

The Mono 2.0 English was left off the shout factory releases. It’s the censored track. The one with the Star Wars style roll up.

But is on the Japanese DVD from Pioneer.

I used to have the Laserdisc of the Euro cut from Japan not the Hill crane. I’d like to know if the Hill Crane is the version with the Star Wars opening and if its censored dialog wise.

Though it’s not worth a few hundred dollars to find out.

What is Finn’s story though? why does he want to join the new Rebellion other than being a Stormtrooper who broke his programming. I get he stays around because he likes Poe and Rey. and has made friendships. I thought he wanted to get away from the resistance and the first order. He was more of a reluctant, almost Han Solo type.

His character doesn’t develop.

Rose is a character for one film and almost written out of the next.

Poe goes from being a Wedge Antilles leader of Rogue Squadron type to being a smuggler like Han as his backstory.

Rey is a nobody from nowhere like Luke was, and then she is Rey Palpatine.

She was searching for her parents. And trying to latch onto an identity. Joining the Rebellion, wanting to be a Jedi. Those are Luke’s motivations.

Kylo wants to be Darth Vader and finish what he started. He finds being on the dark side isn’t all sunshine and rainbows. Nobody likes you and it’s hard to get a date. And he can’t say he hates sand. He hated his father for loving him, a psychopath with no real motivation in the story for his turn to the dark side and corruption. A bare mention of Luke with a pointy saber trying to kill him in his sleep is not enough exposition. Or dollar store Palpatine/ aka space Gollum, reached him through the force and sensed his power. Fair enough it still isn’t explained.

The force dyad thing and Rey being the new chosen one I didn’t even want to broach. One of those seems to explain why she is so powerful with no training. She is The Emperor’s daughter and granddaughter. Born for the sole purpose to house his spirit like some Lovecraftian nightmare. According to ROS he also wanted to possess Anakin and Luke and take over their bodies.

And the other aspect is to explain Reylo and their romance. And restore the balance as I once did, a disembodied Hayden Anakin says, per Rey being someone chosen by the whills of the force or destiny and one to bring about the end of Palpatine.

I probably gave it more thought in the last twenty minutes than any of the screenwriters of these movies did.

I wholly dislike Luke’s arc in Rise of Skywalker. Just pointless really. Key jangling. Ooh look he raised the ship out of the swamp like Yoda. and he admonishes Rey on chucking a lightsaber because that was what he did in episode 8, he did the Jake on an island. It’s time for the Jedi to end.

I was a coward, but Rian didn’t write me that way but don’t tell JJ.

He never trained Rey the movie pretends he did and acts like Skywalker was her previous master before Leia.

It also acts like they are surrogate parents to her when they literally never had any connection in 7 or 8. And Han was the kind of father figure that Kylo killed.

They hint at Finn’s force sensitivity in 7 and 9 and do nothing with it.

These films are endlessly debated and disappointing.

They botched so much it’s a wonder if Lucasfilm will ever have the courage to make that Rey film. Endless books, comics and shows to try and fill in plot holes and no outlining of the sequels. The post ROTJ timeline is garbage in Disney.

Porco Rosso. Pathe Canal + DVD 1999. Claims to be anamorphic its letterbox. Single layer DVD obviously the same interlaced transfer as the French laserdisc. Overly bright colors. Not the best transfer. It’s not the worst laserdisc master I’ve ever seen though. Kind of weird to watch with French opening titles, I am used to the Japanese ones with the marching Totoro logo.

I watched it in Japanese mono sound with no subtitles. Because all it has is French signs or French subtitles. the French 5.1 is the main track. The secondary track is Japanese stereo and, third option is Portuguese mono.

I just ordered the French tin box for all 20 James Bond films. Region 2.

And i won an auction for an early Gunbuster anime OVA DVD volume 3 with PCM sound and no English subtitles. Plus, I ordered the Studio Canal Porco Rosso. Its French 5.1, Japanese stereo. Portuguese mono. no English. Single layer. 1999.

I also saw some other stuff i was interested in but have to limit things when on a budget. I nearly grabbed Robot Carnival region 2 but it was 15 dollars. The other 4 DVDs, I snagged were 5 dollars each. Then came across a remastered region 2 set of all of Gunbuster for 25 but had already spent on those other DVD. I was sorely tempted by the Cowboy Bebop remastered DVD box but 40 bucks is a lot.

Money is tight and all but i couldn’t let that Gunbuster set and Cowboy Bebop set go. 60 bucks gone.

Bebop is 7 DVDS in 5.1 sound. HD remaster. Gunbuster is PCM sound remaster.

I’m watching Detective Pikachu on DVD. Why are modern DVD so bad. Pixelated. If you told me it was a bootleg i’d believe it except it is an official WB DVD. Far from my favorite it was cheap.

I also picked up Die Another Day the worst James Bond film of the original 20. Special Edition 2 disc DVD.

Things from Another World. The online comic store died in April. Likely a casualty of the death of diamond comics distributors.

There is nothing that irritates me more than being forced to either pay full price with Barnes and Noble or being forced to buy books from Amazon.

Less competition means higher prices and less customer service.

Going into the heart of darkness to understand the darkside is exactly what Ulic did. It seems to be something Veitch was interested in, if he used it more than once.

I’m going to infiltrate the Sith from within and slowly walk the path, I won’t fully go over. He gets a taste of power like a drug and it’s so seductive he loses himself. Then he slays his brother, a kinslaying there is no going back from that. Nomi took pity on him and cut him off from the force.

Yoda warned Luke. not to walk the quick and easy path. Forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will as it did Obi-Wan’s apprentice.

Working with the laserdisc was the problem i thought, something about Topaz ai and having to mask out Japanese subtitles with other video sources, tv recordings. I would just have accepted a rip of them raw.

I’ve looked at the prices on those sets and they are always 300 and above in price. Its not even a rare laserdisc set but its price gouged. I’ve seen so many of them.

The Japanese sellers think Indiana Jones or Disney, or they want to charge retail for the year of release in Japanese yen to USD. Nobody pays hundreds for laserdisc sets. You can go up from 50-70 to a hundred dollars for a rare set maybe. But a common set that was not low in circulation.