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Roobyoo

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#1622824
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Star Wars Prequel Trilogy DTS CD ROMs...(First Post UPDATED 08 DEC 2012) (Released)
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I don’t want to open a new thread, so I’m trying it here:

Is someone in the possession of the DTS/AUX tracks or CDs of the first and second trailers from The Phantom Menace? Maybe they are titled Trailer A and Trailer B, but I’m not sure. Because I found a picture from a DTS CD titled ‘Trailer C’,… but don’t know what trailer that could be.

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#1612392
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New Lucas interview 2: 'Insists Unaltered Versions Of The OT Will Never Be Released'
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YAREL_RGP said:

Does that mean that the original negatives are archived in a place where they are available for scanning at any time today? From what source do you get this information? It is really very interesting

One can only hope. They are trying to tell us that the negatives were used for the Special Edition in 1997, but there are too many references and hints that this may not be true. There was a dedicated website to this matter, but I can’t recall its name.

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#1608572
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Current SW & ESB 35mm reels on eBay..
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Why are there trailers from Twisters, Titanic, Men in Black and Air Force One attached to the prints? With the exception from Twister, all these movies are from 1997 - the year the Special Editions were released. Strange… but the movies themself seem to be definitely older, as they have the old Fox and LucasFilm logos.

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#1607403
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In what ways "Revenge of the Jedi" and Leigh Brackett's Empire Strikes Back different from what we got?
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The other hope Yoda speaks of is Luke’s sister Nellith, who has been trained in the Jedi arts at the other side of the galaxy. Leia was just a princess / love interest.

To me that is the thing I would like to have seen the most. I very well love Vader being Luke’s father, but the Luke/Leia thing… it still bugs me.

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#1562562
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'Return of the Jedi' Tennis Shoe Easter Egg
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timdiggerm said:

LexX said:

Well, there’s the confirmation. Congrats to the OP, he was probably the first one to find it.

I almost wonder if OP was actually a researcher for Prop Store, running this by the fans discretely to judge if we’d accept this as true.

(for the record, I do think it’s true)

Haha, no, I am not. It was just a coincidence. I saw EC Henry’s YouTube video and thought ‘Na, this definitely looks nothing like a tennis shoe’. A few days after that I saw 4K83 (or a scanned 35mm ROTJ trailer), and then out of nowhere it hit me directly in the face.

It’s great to finally see the real ‘prop’ after all these years, I must admit. Now give me all the TESB asteroid potatoes!

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#1550212
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The end of Star Wars physical media
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Fang Zei said:

Roobyoo said:

jpb19 said:

Roobyoo said:

This is a punch into the gut. I recently tried to watch The Phantom Menace (don’t blame me) on Disney+, but the low bitrate and bad sound quality had to force me to turn it off. So I decided to plug in my HDD with an own rip of the film from my Blu-ray, with a prestine bitrate and DTS sound. The podrace scene was like night and day compared to the stream.

Bad bitrate and sound quality? Disney Plus version is 4K. Streams are based on your Internet connection. I prefer digital 4K versions of Star Wars over Star Wars on disc for the altered versions of the six films. I own Star Wars on digital HD. Eventually, I will purchase 4K versions of all 11 Star Wars movies. If you have ITunes, you can download 4K versions locally to your PC and cast the video to a smart TV screen or Roku device.

Resolution isn’t the same as bitrate. The lower the bitrate, the more compression artifacts you’ll get. With a 4k Blu-ray you’ll probably will get around 1000 mbps, although Disney+ in 4k dumps around 17 Mbps.

My internet connection is very good, and I’m streaming via direct cable connection.

I’m guessing that’s a typo, but just to be clear, a 4k disc will peak at 100mbps, not 1000.

Whoops!
Yes, a typo. Sometimes I’m glad not to work at a money bank 😄

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#1548767
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The end of Star Wars physical media
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jpb19 said:

Roobyoo said:

This is a punch into the gut. I recently tried to watch The Phantom Menace (don’t blame me) on Disney+, but the low bitrate and bad sound quality had to force me to turn it off. So I decided to plug in my HDD with an own rip of the film from my Blu-ray, with a prestine bitrate and DTS sound. The podrace scene was like night and day compared to the stream.

Bad bitrate and sound quality? Disney Plus version is 4K. Streams are based on your Internet connection. I prefer digital 4K versions of Star Wars over Star Wars on disc for the altered versions of the six films. I own Star Wars on digital HD. Eventually, I will purchase 4K versions of all 11 Star Wars movies. If you have ITunes, you can download 4K versions locally to your PC and cast the video to a smart TV screen or Roku device.

Resolution isn’t the same as bitrate. The lower the bitrate, the more compression artifacts you’ll get. With a 4k Blu-ray you’ll probably will get around 1000 mbps, although Disney+ in 4k dumps around 17 Mbps.

My internet connection is very good, and I’m streaming via direct cable connection.

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#1548619
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The end of Star Wars physical media
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This is a punch into the gut. I recently tried to watch The Phantom Menace (don’t blame me) on Disney+, but the low bitrate and bad sound quality had to force me to turn it off. So I decided to plug in my HDD with an own rip of the film from my Blu-ray, with a prestine bitrate and DTS sound. The podrace scene was like night and day compared to the stream.

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#1537932
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how did you react to the Yoda Reveal?
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I was 5 or 6 years old when I first saw TESB, so I can’t really remember if I was ‘fooled’ by Yoda’s speech about ‘Yoda’. But I do remember that I was very afraid of him. There was something menacing about his apperance (real looking puppet, strange way to speak, lived at a dark place). So it took some years for me to finally realize that he was really one of the good guys!

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#1531258
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'Return of the Jedi' Tennis Shoe Easter Egg
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Hello dear members.

Many of us have known that during the making of ‘Return of the Jedi’ one of the special effects artists, Ken Ralston, placed a sneaker as an easter egg within the Battle of Endor. For many years, fans have been trying to figure out where - and if - one can see this shoe. So far there has been no notice.

The YouTuber EC Henry claims to have found the shoe in one of the shots (www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyomUOwLBpA). But he admits himself during the video, that the model he found may look like a shoe, but not like a tennis shoe - as stated by one of the special effects guys. It looks more like a slipper.

I have my doubt about this conclusion that this has to be the tennis shoe easter egg. The problem with the new releases of ‘Return of the Jedi’ is that they denoised the hell out of the movies for the newer blu-rays, streaming and 4k versions of the movies.

I recently saw the teaser from a complete scan of an original 35mm print. And immediately my eyes catched something:

Are you seeing it? Let’s take a closer look with a little help from me:

Let’s zoom in one more time:

It is still blurried, but this looks more like a tennis shoe/sneaker from the 80s.

And it became clear to me why the fans couldn’t find this easter egg for years - simply because the newer ROTJ releases have this and a few other models removed from this shot:

Of course this isn’t a 100% confirmation, but I think it is at least a little closer to the real thing.

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#1345173
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Is it Lucas, or Fox, who has prevented the restored OOT release?
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I think it’s definitely contracted between Lucas and Disney to not release the OOT. No loyalty. Since 2012 there hasn’t been any official word spoken or written if/why they/they won’t release it. And that’s probably because they won’t endanger another shitstorm on Lucas - at least during his lifetime. Because that is going to happen when they tell us that he is the only reason.