Ozkeeper

wireless battery-operated glasses that blink maybe a thousand times a second

Originally posted by: Moth3r
Several years ago, when I was on holiday in Zante, I hired a jeep using someone else's driving licence. I also cheated on the girl I was going out with at the time.

By the way, I've learned that our very own Russell Hammond was at the Star Wars panel at Comic-Con on Friday, and his reaction was much like the others we've heard who saw the DVD clips. Apparently, Lucasfilm went to a lot of trouble to first show a doctored clip (supposedly from the DVDs) designed to look deliberately bad - something that they'd spent money to actually create! - in order to make light of the criticisms we at The Bits and MANY others have leveled on the forthcoming DVDs' quality shortcomings, and in order to make the actual DVD clips look somewhat better by comparison. In fact, Russell says that Sansweet's comments (that we posted earlier) were made right before showing the deliberately bad looking clips, as a way of playing up the joke. THEN he played the actual clips from the DVDs, and according to Russell, "It looked like crap too!" (Russell's exact words, spoken in an outraged tone to me this morning over the phone.) In other words, it looked exactly like we figured it would... soft, washed out, lacking in contrast and detail, etc... exactly what you'd expect from 15-year-old, non-anamorphic laserdisc transfers gussied up for DVD and blown up on a big screen. I'd like to refer you all to a lengthy post we made here at The Bits in May, which remains our definitive statement on this issue. In it, we point-for-point refute every single argument that Lucasfilm has made as to why this is the "best they can do." It was written by myself, along with our own Robert A. Harris, who is one of the foremost film restoration experts in the industry. I think you'll find it interesting reading, and we stand by it 100%. By the way, you'll find more fan complaints about the new DVDs here at OriginalTrilogy.com and a funny bit here at MSNBC.

(George Lucas: Many of you are frustrated that you send in dozens or hundreds of comments or questions and never get them answered by me. The problem is that we receive countless thousands of questions and comments here each and every day. I want to encourage all the true fans to donate a little money to SuperShadow. If you send a gift to Shadow through PayPal, SuperShadow will send you my PERSONAL E-MAIL address. You will be able to contact me as often as you so desire. Finally, everything you’ve ever wanted to say to me can come to fruition. I look forward to meeting each and everyone of you. As always, may the Force be with you.)

George Lucas: Well, you do raise a legitimate concern. The original actors are getting old. However, their roles won’t really be all that action oriented except for Luke Skywalker and Leia engaging in light-saber battles. Most of Han’s action will be piloting the Millennium Falcon during dog fights. I don’t think they will be too old. Mark and Carrie will be in their sixties while Harrison will be in his seventies.