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#60602
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Boycott the 2004 OT SE DVD release - c'mon, you can do it
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/60602/action/topic#60602
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Originally posted by: TR47
Lucas' own personal mailing address is:
George Lucas
3270 Kerner Blvd #2009
San Rafael, CA 94901-4840
It's a private mailbox, and it is not a commonly known contact to my knowledge.


Part of me wants to know how you came upon this information. The other part wants to figure out if it's of any use to me. As for the boycott, both YourHums and Jimbo are correct. A boycott is the best way to show our disapproval. After all, whether Jimbo likes it or not, the SE wasn't supposed to be released on video, period. Wave after wave of SW fans, eager to see the films on the big screen in whatever form, gave Lucas the idea to release them in the first place. It was puplic ignorence then and it's puplic ignorence now. There are basically three camps.

Special Editionests - Prefer the Se. While some also like the O-OT, other dispise it as "inferior" and take perverse pleasure in tellin O-OTers that "it's dead".

O-OTers - the exact opposite. Believes that the untainted versions are the only true versions, though most don't mind the SE and would buy both.

The Ignorent Masses - The largest group. thousands of times in sze to the other two combined, their usual response to all of this is "There are TWO versions????????". People like my father couldn't tell which version they were watching anyway. And even if they can, they don't care.

That's it in a nutshell. In the end, the fate of SW is decided by people who see it as just another film. End of story.
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#60590
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Episodes 7,8,9?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/60590/action/topic#60590
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Those appear to be video game rips, of what, I don't know. FMV's of some obscure or unreleased game. Texture mapping looks to be a little simple. So It could be an old PC game(there were some that weren't vaunted). They look to be in the 128 bit range otherwise, I know of a SW game released for the old Atari Jaguar(or was it the 3DO, one of the systems killed by the original PSX). I got to sample it long ago, and it was awesome. You're a rebel trainie, on a remote world out practicing in a canyon, when the Empire hits you base. you escape through the training ground and meet up with the rebellion. There, you are given an X-wing and sent against an attacking Star Destroyer. I remember this vividly, because at the time, every single SW game was about destroying a certain number of TIEs, while this one let me take on a SD(which was sweet). Anyone know the name of this game? All I do know, Obi-wonton, are that these are not Next-gen consoul pics, as they're barely 128 bit. Almost Dreamcast quality.
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#60450
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If the classics were released...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/60450/action/topic#60450
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Since I, personally, would be happy with a widescreen VHS copy;and given the fact that I all but destroyed dad's copies of the SE(I'm not proud of it, but he knew how I felt at the time)? No, there's absolutely, positively, no way that I'll purchase this DVD set, nor accept them as gifts. Strike that. The only way I could possibly justify having them, when I dispise them, and everything they stand for, would be to satisfy a completest urge if my Star Wars collection were to ever surpass Steven Sansweet's. They would occupy a "Hall of Shame" along with all the other SE stuff I got at the time(a few store displays my father grabbed, etc. I wouldn't touch the SE toys for my otherwise complete PotF collection). Given that, and the fact that I never rebuy without reason, even an O-OT release would be purchased more as a "give my tapes a break", and "Prove Lucas' revisionest history wrong" kind of thing. It makes a SE purchase even less likely.
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#60449
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Episodes 7,8,9?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/60449/action/topic#60449
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I love animation greatly, american and japanese, traditional and CGI(with a heavy preference on traditional, and an intolerence for slipshod hybreds). That said, Clone Wars was rather weak. If Star Wars is to be animated, leave it up to the people who are good at it, and not the creator of "The Powerpuff Girls". His "Dexter's Laboratory" is enjoyable, and "Samurai Jack" has it's moments, but I'd rather see Star Wars in the hand of Miyazaki, Oshii, Kawajiri, Studio Gainax, Production I.G. or perhaps a rehilbilitated(i.e. Eisner free) Disney. Heck, why not give Evan Cagle a shot, once "Honey" is finished. These are the animators that forge the best in animation. Though even I agree that the old characters would not work. We associate these characters with their actors, a CGI suppliment, no matter the realism would never work. I would fear that there would be more to hate than even the SE.
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#60445
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<strong>Star Wars Radio Dramas</strong> - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/60445/action/topic#60445
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Originally posted by: buddy-x-wing
" Not to mention the fact that you get to hear Mara Jade's voice and I think it salvages it pretty well. "

really, I don't remember this at all? I'll have to go listen to them again.


She's there alright. If you read the complilation "Takes from Jabba's Palace", you'll know from Timothy Zahn's story that Jade infitrated the palace posing as a dancer named Arika(sp?). Early in the RD, C-3PO talks to a person who refers to herself as Arika.
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#59991
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<strong>Star Wars Radio Dramas</strong> - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/59991/action/topic#59991
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Glad to know I'm not the only one who's experienced these. I stumbled on them at my old library, and dubbed off my own copies. Some things worked so much better then in the films(Alderaan's destruction, Leia's interrigation, etc.) Han meeting Heater in docking bay 94(I seem to remember it being him) made so much more sense than Jabba himself walking around. It even added to the story, giving details on why Han owed Jabba, not just him getting an extension. Personally, I liked ROTJ as well. Though it sounds like Billie Dee got replaced by a white guy. The Emperor was nuts, I loved it(though no McDermid"Glooorius"). I love some of the new lines in Jedi:

After the DSII Destruction

Han: Hey Lando! You kept your promise, right? Not a scratch?

Lando: Well, what's left of her isn't scratched. All the scratched parts got knocked off along the way.

Han(exasperated): Knocked off?!

Emperor's Death

Vader(reacting to Luke's pleas): MY SON!!!!

Emperor: Vader, What are you doing? Put me down!

Vader: Yes, I'll put you down! Down the reactor core shaft! Down to your death!!

Emperor: Vader, you can't do this!! I am your master!

Vader: Darth Vader's master! But not Anakin Skywalker's!!!

Not to mention the fact that you get to hear Mara Jade's voice and I think it salvages it pretty well.
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#58377
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HD-DVD
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/58377/action/topic#58377
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Originally posted by: jimbo
Just about everything you said is wrong.
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My, aren't we so high and mighty. Phrase your sentences better.

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First of all AOD doesn't excist anymore. Its HD-DVD.


It is AOD, the names are interchangable. Exist has no "c".

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Also VC-9 is a compression standard not a video standard. So saying that VC-9 isn't HD makes no sense at all.


As a "compression codec" aka "video codec", VC-9 can not replicate all the luminence of HD. Hence, due to the "compression codec", true HD is not attained.

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VC-9 allows 3x the video storage efficiency.


At the lost of luminence. Not very efficent.

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With that a 30 gigabit HD-DVD can hold 30% more then a 54 gigabit Blu-Ray at MPEG-2.
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With more compression. 54 Gb is more than 30 GB of physical storage.

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Also HD-DVD will use 24/96 MLP of DVD-audio. Blu-Ray is still limited to the next generation of standard doby and DTS.


Again, link or article, please.

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Blu-Ray will sound better then SD-DVD but HD-DVD takes it a step even further. Japanese Studio Poly Cannon and Time Warner both fully back HD-DVD. Universal, Fox, Artisan, and Disney all support HD-DVD over Blu-Ray. They voted for HD-DVD in the Forum and rejected joining the Blu-Ray association. Studios are attracted to HD-DVD for its cheaper price and better sound quality. No studio other then Columbia Tristar has shown any intrest in Blu-Ray.


False. No companies have I read outwardly support HD-DVD. Show me the articles. Sony is set to purchase MGM. Fox supports D-VHS, as does Universal and Artisan. Warner and Disney are swing votes. ALL major makers back Blu-ray, driving costs down. Cost isn't an issue.

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Also the DVD forum is made up of 210 companies. Only 13 companies back Blu-Ray. Also both formats are backwards compatible. Anything else would be suicide. The difference is HD-DVD can read both red and blue lasers with the same diode. Blu-Ray requires two diodes to read both formats. Since the majority of a players cost is in laser diodes Blu-Ray players will be signifigantly more expensive then HD-DVD players.


Blu-ray uses the same diode at different wavelengths.

Both formats have strenghes and weaknesses. However, blantenly telling someone they are wrong with little to back yourself up with makes you appear no less wrong. Like I said, show me where you got your info. Then, be more polite and my rebuttel or aceptence will be in turn.
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#58373
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A Picture is worth a thousand words...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/58373/action/topic#58373
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Originally posted by: INv8r_ZIM
To bad, KJ, that both Nemesis and Insurrection (hmm...actually, everything since WoK, actually) has blown multi packs of goats as films.


I, personally, wouldn't go that far. Just saying that model assisted FX(Nemesis, First Contact, LOTR, etc) tend to work better than ones without(Insurrection). My point was that the SE wasn't up to snuff with stuff ILM had just done. They are better than they've shown, you know it, and I know it.
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#58367
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a Star Trek thread...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/58367/action/topic#58367
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I liked Nemesis. The overall theme of striving to better yourself beyond your own experience was well done, IMO. Much more of a thinking man's Trek than Enterprise. It's not without it's flaws however, but it gives hope. I blame Paramount for V. Read(or listen in my case) to Williams Shatner's Star Trek Movie Memories. The stories in it are priceless. Try the audiobooks as well, I usually don't care for audio books, but Shatner and Nimoy really bring their stories to life. Shatner's ST fiction is among the best, and I count it as kanon for the most part. YThe books try not to contradict one another. I say, cancel Enterprise(or greatly rework it). Let ST drop for awhile with new kanon novels. Then bring it back. The EU revitalizes and kept me active in SW up to and including my expansion of intrest in animation to include anime. It would probably help ST.
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#58364
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a Star Trek thread...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/58364/action/topic#58364
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I have been a Trek fan and a Wars fan for as long as I remember. I actually thought fandom of both went hand in hand. A huge fan of the originals, I eventually decided that a man can't live on 79 episodes alone, and branched out.

1. TOS
2. TNG
2. DS9
3. VOY



Thanks to DS9, I also became a B5 fan(came on right after it). I don't have many favorite as I tend to like everything. I do love "The City on the Edge of Forever"(Gene Coon's masterpiece inspired by Ellison's original), "Space Seed", "A Balance of Terror", and "The Trouble with Tribbles" of TOS. My favorite DS9 episode has to be "In the Pale Moonlight", Avery Brooks' performence was outstanding in that one. I've read some novels, but it hurts that they aren't canon. I used to watch the animated series all the time when I was a kid. My favorite films are II/IV followed by VI.

I saw some episodes of Enterprise, but I hate how the Vulcans are depicted, how Scott Bakula gets another high profile sci-fi role(he's Sam Beckett, dammit), I all around didn't care for it. Then I catch some new episodes. They try the B5 route, with story arcs and such. It all focused on "the weapon", that and that stupid twist at the end sealed it. I hate Enterprise. I hate the fact that they use a song written for something else as the theme. I hate the continuety errors it causes by not having the NX-01 displayed proudly in the NCC-1701's rec room. I hate the 7 of 9 ripoff T'pol especially, she's a Romulan, not a Vulcan. I despise the fact that they alienated the fans by removing the Star Trek name from the title(then they wentr and added it). That was like saying, "we don't need you anymore, this is our saga". I don't know what's worse, Lucas ruining his own vision(which at least has a usually excellent EU to preserve it) or Paramount, Berman and crew destroying Roddenberry's.
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#58361
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HD-DVD
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/58361/action/topic#58361
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Once again, VC-9 isn't actual HD, and its AOD's main codec, so the picture has less info, not more. The studios are known to mostly support Blu-ray, while none fully back HD-DVD. More improtantly, the manufactuers support Blu-ray. We're talking Matsushita, Mitsubishi, Hitachi, Pioneer, Samsung, Sharp, TDK, Hewlett Packard and Dell. Sony even removed the one flaw it originally had, having no backwards compatibility. HD-DVD had to modify itself to a blue laser(originally, it was red). I still haven't read of AOD using the DVD-A audio format. Could you show me a link? Blu-ray is also considering AVC for a codec. They'll barely cost more than regular DVDs, and are certain to dominate the PC and gaming market.
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#58314
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Lucasfilm Animation Singapore
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/58314/action/topic#58314
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Originally posted by: Obi-wonton
I know it was a mix of painting, cel work, and CGI but they did state at one point that every scene in the movie, 100%, has some CGI on there and was therefore revolutionary. I could be wrong, but I seem to remember that's what all the hype was about. BTW, I am refering to Blood: the Last Vampire.


The big deal I heard about it was that it was partially finianced by the US distributor and that it was partially in english and japanese. You want revolutionary, check out Ghost in the Shell: Innocence. Personally, I can't stand overuse of CGI(i.e. thing that could be done by hand but wasn't). As such, its hard for me to like a lot of studio GONZO's work(Blue Sub 6 especially,Vandread maybe, since the CGI is rarely in the same scene) Even the celebrated Last EXILE fail greatly in that area. I'm simply not impressed much by CGI, especially when mis-used. It's really jarring at times.
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#58311
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A Picture is worth a thousand words...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/58311/action/topic#58311
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I haven't liked McCullum ever since I first saw him in that Fox special on the SE. That infamous line that would become a cornerstone when I started hating the SE after Jedi. The euphoria of seeing the films on the big screen wore off, and my mother's comment on the absence of the Ewok song set many thoughts into motion. That line, "The essence of the storytelling...had to be sacrified...due to the limits in technology". It says that the old effects caused the story to suffer, a stance I strongly disagree with. After that, I started blaming the SE on Fox(wanting something like ID4 to help sell the rerelease) and Rick encouraging Lucas. That stemed mostly from my respect for Lucas, and the shody work of ILM. Just look at Star Trek: First Contact, released the previous November. The SE can't hold a candle to the realism of the FX. THey look more like Star Trek Insurrection's, which were done by a company that didn't believe in model-aided CGI. All of the ships in the PT are models, loaded into the computer and manipulated. ILM is the master of this stuff. Stand alone CG like Insurrection's can't compare(fortunately Nemesis was done by Digital Domain, the 2nd best, IMO).
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#58293
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HD-DVD
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/58293/action/topic#58293
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Actually, Bluray will be out before AOD. It's already out in Japan. Also, not just the PS3 will have it. They also announced plans that the next wave of PS2s will have them as well. Sony is also considering Apple's AVC as a video codec. Hopefully, they'll avoid VC9.

Bossk, a S-VCR is a format JVC released in the 80s. Due to lack of promotion, interest,and lack of pre-recorded software(I hear there was an Indiana Jones release for displays), it never achieved what would have been a simple task of replacing video. It has the same luma res as LD, but the chroma of VHS. Prices back it the 80s had them in the $1000s. Now you can get one for about a $100. Most come with SVHS-ET, which let's you use a regular tape(a feature I use often). The biggest benefit for me, however, is the S-Video out. A simple S-Video cord cleans up a VHS tape like you wouldn't believe. If you use your VCR often(assuming you're not like the jack@$$es) I've seen who claim to have long junked everything connect to video, an S-VCR is well worth it. Better yet, get a D-VCR if you have a HDTV(which records exactly what you feed it, line for line). Yes, I did mean DVD-Audio. A consequential purchase, dad often buys hardware without consulting me. I put him through hell finding a TV when we moved.