JavaJones

INv8r_ZIM said:

angryboy said:

angryboy said:

At 42:50 there's  a white ball behind Obi-Wan that looks like it's rolling. Is that in the originals or is it a Special Edition addition?

 

Does anyone know anything about this?

 

Did this ever get answered? If not, nope, that's always been there :)

It's there in the SE, at least. I don't have GOUT to check against, but I assume it was there in the original film. It's pretty amazing what tiny details people notice!

Anyway I got it pretty darn quick through the 'Spleen torrent. Woo! Seeding now. Huge thanks Harmy! Also thanks to chyron8472 for putting it on MySpleen, and to all who are seeding. Now to set aside time to give it a proper viewing!

- Oshyan

Ah, my mistake. Got confused between the AVCHD and the m2ts. But now I really am confused why you're uploading the m2ts separately from the rest of the blu-ray. I guess for those of us like me who just want to get an MKV out of it, but personally I'll want all the extra features as well, if possible. I have some great MKV packages that include multiple audio tracks, I was hoping for the same. I suppose some will just want the stand-alone MKV, which they can get from the m2ts?

- Oshyan

So, the take-away message is: if you're going to share this via torrent, wait until the full blu-ray disc is available!

- Oshyan

My understanding is the m2ts is being released before the additional content will even be completed. A sort of pre-release for "beta testing", i.e. the forum denizens to look it over with a fine-tooth-comb and hopefully find any remaining issues before the final release, which will either consist of A: the additional content and bluray structure separately IF there are no issues found with the "pre-release", or B: (presumably) a full re-release with additional fix-ups to the main video/audio track, as well as the additional blu-ray features and structure.

So, there's a reason it's being done this way, and it has little or nothing to do with saving space or not making people download stuff they don't want. As you say, if that were the goal, selective torrent download would be the way to go.

- Oshyan

Gotcha. Well, I would have run a donation drive to get you a new system if I'd known that was a factor. I do see that there is likely minimal difference, and the real problem is that the source material from Lucasfilm is crappy (daaaaamn you George Lucas!), but I frankly feel like the reasoning of "SD material blended in would look worse" doesn't really hold up. You're basically saying we want the whole movie to look crappier so that the crappiest looking bits look better by comparison, which is kind of ridiculous in the first place, but then it also clashes with the example above showing there *isn't* that much difference. 

Anyway, it is what it is, and more importantly there would not be a dramatic difference in detail anyway. I could probably get a 1080p native equivalent result by just running a good sharpening post filter.

Thanks for the info, and all your hard work!

Wait a minute, 720p, did I miss something? The work you're doing is amazing, unbelievably meticulous, so I don't understand why you'd do it on anything but the highest resolution source available. Given the amount of effort, it's not like you'd ever want to redo it. I'm sure there's a good reason for it, I just can't guess what it would be. Sorry if this is rehashing an old topic, it's a long thread. ;)