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Bingowings said:

Going down on the train this time so maybe I might get luck...

Ooops.

That's nice.

It's not new; a moderator can choose whether or not to have an email notification sent out when editing, locking or deleting posts.

You are correct that pasting from Notepad is fine; at least for MSIE and Firefox, although Chrome seems to do something peculiar to the pasted text.

The sources most likely to screw up the forum when pasted are MS Word and Internet Explorer (i.e. copying text from another website).

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Copy-and-paste-discussion-moved-from-Adywans-ESB-R-thread/topic/12232/

Ripplin said:

AuggieBenDoggie said:

just write it out on a note pad, then copy and paste.

Which messes up the thread. :p Perhaps you haven't seen that glitch in action before. (or maybe it's fixed now?)

AuggieBenDoggie said:

Ripplin said:

Which messes up the thread. :p Perhaps you haven't seen that glitch in action before. (or maybe it's fixed now?)

He was talking about his netbook crashing, not about double posts here on the boards. Someone needs to donate and get Ady a better netbook;).

doubleofive said:

Pasting from notepad is fine because it's not formatted. It's pasting from MS Word that messes up te thread.

Chewtobacca said:

AuggieBenDoggie said:

Lol,  just write it out on a note pad, then copy and paste. That way, if your note book crashes again, you wont loose any of your work.

Yeah, Adywan.  You really ought to get a grip on some state-of-the-art modern software once in a while. :-D

Original announcement is here. I don't think Jay maintains the channel any more.

The petition has been up for one year now. As of today, it has 2358 signatures. I'm a bit disappointed with that number - I don't know how many signatures the original DVD petition got in the first year but I was expecting near 5000 to 10,000 by this stage.

Hopefully when the "Special Edition" BDs are released it will generate more interest in getting the original versions.

It's a scan from the book I mentioned in Post 24.

Ah, nostalgia...

According to Lowry, they weren't recomped:

Whenever anyone lit up a lightsaber, it was done with an optical effect, and all of the opticals at the time were done on film--there were no digital effects. So every time you go to a lightsaber scene, bang, you drop two generations of film. It gets grainier and, as it's going through an optical printer, you have different characteristics in terms of contrast. And those are things we have to match up with the scenes immediately before and after. It took a lot of effort to match precisely the granularity, the contrast, and the sharpness. They flow very nicely now and, frankly, in the original movies, there was a distinct change. We were able to eliminate that change, and to me that's a very strong contribution to the storytelling process--removing something that prevents an audience from being drawn in.

However, Zombie reckons they were re-rotoscoped (here).

Not used it myself, but I asked a similar question a while ago on another forum and was recommended to try Presto OCR.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-linear_editing_system

adywan said:

God, i'm away for a little while and it's gone a little mad in here.

Sorry.

Feel free to PM me whenever there's a problem, I'll try my best to clean up the thread.

I forgot to ask - did you filter out the laserdisc "line drops" present on PAL discs?

From the wiki entry for Building Empire:

Changes from Original Version

This is an updated version of 'Building Empire' for the Miami Underground Film Festival. It includes clips from sources that came to light since its initial release, and also has subtitle spelling errors corrected.

C1130-85 A 03
C1130-85 B 03
C1130-85 C 04

I'll try and get some screenshots in the next day or two. 

p.s. Not sure if this counts as memorabilia discussion or not so could a mod move it if I've got it wrong

Just noticed this. I don't think it belongs in the "theatrical vs SE" forum; I can either move it to memorabilia discussion if you want to talk about old VHS tapes, or preservations if you want to talk about converting them to DVD?

Got it: Special Widescreen Edition.

Jaitea said:

Lemonstein said:

 

Damn, Irvin Kershner dies in the 30th anniversary year of his best, and the best Star Wars, film. Leslie Nielsen dying was sad enough; some of his last movies sucked but he was always fun to watch, and Kersh gave some of us one of the defining movies of our childhood.

I said something similar but got my post removed......sad day.

Your post was removed because I felt that tributes to the man who directed the greatest ever Star Wars film deserved to be in their own thread, not buried at page 838 of a thread discussing a fan edit.

I have no problem with suggestions for dedications, or other comments that relate to ESB:R, however.

gpforhire said:

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I don't have a video player to check the quality or such like but wondered if anyone know if its worth bothering to convert them to film or not.

Convert them to film? I'm assuming you mean convert them to DVD, unless you own a film projector?

Of course it won't be DVD quality but they are pre-DVD special edition so I'm not sure what changes (if any) they have

For a comprehensive list of changes, check this thread:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Complete-Comparison-of-Special-Edition-Visual-Changes/topic/11927/ 

They are

Star Wars (Digitially remastered, closed captioned (subtitles?!) HiFi Stereo (bleugh) 1995

ROTJ (Digitally remastered, special widescreen edition, letterbox version (2.35:1), closed captioned HiFi Stereo) 1995 - mould on tape edge so might be buggered)

ROTJ (Digitally remastered, HiFI Stereo, closed captioned 1995)

ESB (Special Widescreen edition, letterbox version - unopened 1994)

Star Wars (Special Widescreen edition, letterbox version 1994)

ROTJ (Special Widescreen edition, letterbox version - unopened 1994)

 

Just realised that my descriptions might be useless so I can post pics if anyone wants to take a look. Should I keep them protected or plonk with the rest of my collection as something to look at but not really worth anything.

Personally I don't think they are worth preserving, as these versions are already preserved in better quality from laserdisc. But others may disagree. Are they PAL or NTSC? 

Darth Mallwalker said:

 

Red5 said:

Could this be the true 'shrink fixed' version davisdvd was talking about, but released in 1993 instead of 1992?

It is precisely that.
lddb.com
Mastering date is etched into the dead wax.

I suspect it's from a different source than JSC & SWE:ISR
Visual evidence will follow....

 

According to LDDb, the etchings on my copy represent the Mitsubushi (1992) pressing. Is there a difference? Does my disc have the shrinking aspect ratio?

What is SWE:ISR? Never added that one to the acronym buster...

So you're saying there was a 1993 laserdisc release that is NTSC but with no DVNR smearing? Is it on LDDb? 

Darthritis?

Replying to this, originally posted in a different thread:

Leguman said:

(Off topic)

Speaking about noise, I'm sure you can clear a few things back here to make the OP readable again: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/The-Empire-Strikes-Back-IMPERIAL-AUDIOPHILE-EDITION-Restored-Remastered-Score-J-Williams-LSO/topic/11871/page/1/

And now please accept my sincere apologies. I have no idea how far my profile change screws up the site's logistics (if it does).

Jay has said that he is working on a forum option that would allow us to merge all four (?) of your accounts. This will fix the transparency issue.

dark_jedi said:

HEY SONS OF BEEOTCHES! LET'S KEEP THIS THREAD ON TOPIC!

Just kidding, this doesn't bother me LOL, sometimes you can learn things in "off topic" ramble.

It bothers me. I prefer topics with a higher signal-to-noise ratio.