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#244406
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And on the 8th day, God created socks that wont stay up, mosquitos, Taco Bell, and Letterboxed DVD's. It was not good.
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Originally posted by: Obiwampa
As I sat watching the shimmery pixels of the twin suns setting on Tattooine yesterday, I bemusedly asked myself when was the last DVD I purchased that looked this bad? Had I? I went home to see. Yes I had. Kurosawa's 'Ran'. I'm no expert, but I'm guessing that this early edition was mastered using the same late 80's early 90's technology as the GOUT. What is the correlation between expensive soap and earplugs? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!!! BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! What is the connection between 'Ran' and 'Star Wars'? Read on... George Lucas and F.F. Coppola helped Kurosawa get 'Ran' made. 'Ran' has since been given the ultra slick Criterion Collection two-disc all night spa treatment, with wet and wild super happy fun finish. While at the same time, Lucas is giving us this shut up and take it, prison shower style, dry handed reach around, with sphincter tearing anal invasion at no extra cost. The significance?? I DON'T KNOW!!! I just thought I'd mention it.

Lucas has sort of become like Bush. Shut up in his ivory tower, to high above us all to stoop to answering our pathetic little questions. "Let them eat laser disc masters..." he says through a mouthfull of turkey leg, while waving his ring laden hand at his servants. I guess like the war in Iraq, this is so infuriating because it could very easily have been avoided. What a waste of plastic this DVD is. Long after the human race is gone, this DVD will still be around, along with pop bottles, milk jugs, cockroaches, and Keith Richards. I hope that someday, someone will find a good use for it. Here are my suggestions, Mad Max/Waterworld mutant man... Plane signaler, coaster for your glass of filtered pee, break them into tiny bits for fishing lures, sharpen the edges and use like a ninja star, makeshift rearview mirror for your V-8 interceptor........


The war on terror could have been avoided if Clinton had taken Asama Bin Ladan into custody the five different times he had the chance to do so. His lame excuse for not doing so was that he didn't know whether he had the legal rights. What a load of bull. Bin Ladan is a terrorist who has know American rights and nothing concerning legal rights should ever have been brought into the matter. They should have strapped the sick bastard that Bin Ladden is, to a bomb and launched his ass to hell. I lost a cousin in the Pentagon plane crash and have seen a full video of a terrorist beheading of an American citizen (not the edited butchered versions on the news). Having experienced and seen the wrath of these terrorist, I think we should fight and keep fighting until the very last one of them is dead.
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#243925
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First Impressions of the OOT ...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/243925/action/topic#243925
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Originally posted by: Boris
Mike, I don't think you're a fool. I have a lot of respect for you, as I'm aware you do work in the industry. Some others may also realize this "authority" with which you speak. I was challenging your claims (and then others did as well). Enjoy the rest of your week Mike.


This is the kind of attitude I love seeing around here. It reminds me how it used to be before the GOUT was announced. For your wonderful response, you went up a notch in my book, Boris.
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#243917
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This is all I wanted. I'm happy, no need for another OOT release EVER for me!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/243917/action/topic#243917
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Originally posted by: Zion
Getting rid of the bars and watching something in the correct aspect ratio are two different things. Most widescreen TVs have several modes for stretching 4:3 material to fill up the screen, but most of them use some method of leaving the middle of the screen unstretched while stretching out the sides. If you can't tell the difference while you're in the "fish eye" mode, then more power to you. But at least realize that the only way to view a letterbox source in the correct aspect ratio is to watch it in normal "postage stamp" mode as pictured above, or to use zoom. All modes aside from the normal mode, be it "full", "zoom", or what have you, stretch the picture.


If you are refering to me, then let me clarify. I know how to watch it in its OAR on an LCD T.V. I never brought up OAR, anyways. The the type of "zoom" option I was refering to is called "Wide Zoom" , which leaves the center regular, stretches the edges, and zooms the whole image just enough to get rid of the side lines.
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#243915
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So, a simple question....
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/243915/action/topic#243915
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Originally posted by: marioxb
Well, to be fair, I did stay on topic. The topic was "So, a simple question..." which I also asked. I don't like PAL at all ever. If you ask me, I go by whatever the standard is in Japan. And that's NTSC, which also happens to be USA's standard. Japan will always know best when it comes to technology.


1. You were off topic, because this topic wasn't about your question, it was about eros' question.

2. If Japan always knows best when it comes to technology, then explain to me their reasoning behind pushing the PS3 release date back 4 months in Europe.
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#243913
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This is all I wanted. I'm happy, no need for another OOT release EVER for me!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/243913/action/topic#243913
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Originally posted by: Scruffy
So you destroy the OAR and happily watch Fat Luke, Chubby Leia, and Chewbacca the Wide Wookiee?


I will hardly watch them on my 32" LCD, and when I do I will watch them in "Zoom"mode instead of "Full" mode. The only reson why I made my earlier statement was to let Zion know that with some T.V.s you don't have to zoom to get rid of the side lines.
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#243901
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This is all I wanted. I'm happy, no need for another OOT release EVER for me!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/243901/action/topic#243901
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Originally posted by: Zion
OK, what you're saying doesn't make any sense. You say you have a widescreen TV and you are not zooming in. That would mean that these LETTERBOX DVDs are sitting in the middle of your TV like this with bars on all sides:

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i139/zombie__84/non-anamorphic.jpg
(credit goes to zombie for posting this on TFN)

If you aren't using zoom, this is what your screen looks like.


I don't zoom my 16x9 TV and it doesn't have the lines on the side, and this is because it has a default "Full" mode. The "Full" mode only stretches the image to fit the screen rather than zooming it in.
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#243897
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First Impressions of the OOT ...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/243897/action/topic#243897
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Originally posted by: Windexed
I watched Star Wars last night, and I have to say I wasn't overly impressed, and I bought it with low expectations. Sure it was grainy (and super-grainy) at times, but what really bothered me was the aliasing. Maybe it's my setup (50" WS DLP, Samsung "upconverting" DVD player via HDMI) but any time there was a line, even a curved one mind you, it became a jaggy. Seriously, it looked like Charles Schultz drew on top of the filmstock.


The DVD's do have some serious aliasing problems.
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#243812
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First Impressions of the OOT ...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/243812/action/topic#243812
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In the setup menu of your DVD player there is probably an option to disable subtitles on DVDs. This has probably been turned on by accident and if it is , it doesn't matter whether you have the DVD's subtitles are turned on from the subtitle menu, the DVD player will still block them. To fix this problem open up you setup menu and turn off anything that blocks subtitles.
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#243753
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First Impressions of the OOT ...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/243753/action/topic#243753
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Originally posted by: mverta
Vigo -

I don't have more solid proof than the images themselves. I agree not all shots are equally grainy. I also have nothing more than my professional expertise to draw conclusions from, and my eye has spotted things in the transfer I recognize as digital post work. This is what I do. It's what Lucasfilm hires me to do for them, from time to time. You can no more make a blanket statement saying such alterations weren't made, then anyone can say they were. I didn't say they were, difinitively, I said I thought so, and still do. I have my experience to draw on; nothing more, and of course, you can completely invalidate my expertise to make your point if you want. Speculations and theories are how things start; then you go off in search of proof to refute or support the theory. This is what I've done. In this case, that proof must largely come from informed supposition and analysis, by expert eyes. I've done that, too... In any case, I hope you never get the proof you're looking for, which I think you're saying would have to come from Lucas himself. Or somebody from Lucasfilm coming right out and saying, "yes, we want to have permanently satisfied the demand for an OT while not infringing upon the sales of the remastered versions, so we made sure they looked like shit." The chances of which, I daresay, are slim.

In any case, just chalk me up as a nutjob who has a whole lot of nothing to say, and bask in the self satisfaction of your rapier perception. Then at least I will have the satisfaction of having entertained you, if I can't inform you. Six of one, really...

_Mike


I think you are being paranoid.

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#243512
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2006 OT DVD: Well today's the day...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/243512/action/topic#243512
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Originally posted by: Marvolo
Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Hopefully, the non-Hoth stuff will look better. I hope...


It's not just Hoth but the entire movie. I am especially erked, because ESB is my favorite movie.
Also,when the Mellinium Falcon is fleeing Bespin, at the end, all the stars turn blue and it looks like everything has been run through a blue filter.