LOL! I'm digging the overall arc of Anakin slowly losing his mind. The Awake dialog is a little hard to hear though.
I still think Long Tall Sally should be playing on a radio over the troop transport scene. ;)
Is it credited as a Disney show or Lucasfilm?
This shot also allows for funny business as seen through the macrobinoculars.
He could be looking at the Spaceballs comb guys...
Good luck!
I had problems with Memorex discs before, and double layer is a crapshoot at the best of times.
If this thing is time compressed on top of everything else, maybe we're better off not using it at all. :(
Hopefully, they will officially post episodes online, because hell will freeze over before my cable company gets DisneyXD.
As that BSG episode was an inspiration for Knight Rider, K.I.T.T. has to be in the movie somewhere? ;)
Maybe save him for Jedi...
What make/model of DVD recorder was used? Of course, the discs themselves might be the culprit.
Is there any weird jerkiness to the video? Like frames are being dropped? It's probably my crappy cable system, but I only see this on the SD subchannels.
If you can get your friend to capture the next broadcast on the 25th, maybe just use single layer discs this time?
Is someone here set up to capture such a tape if it comes up on Ebay?
Another cool ancient artifact from the golden age of ILM...
TV's Frink said:
That one was lots of fun. I always liked the little details like all the bootprints in the snow. It also complemented the Turret and Probot playset.
It was great Kenner moved away from those sets that were mostly cardboard. Kenner recycled that "Land of The Jawas" base one time too many.
It's a shame they never did a proper Carbon Freeze chamber outside the Micro Collection. And that cardboard one that was a Sears' exclusive doesn't count. ;)
Keanu's got a new movie coming out that probably will be fanedited into a Matrix film. ;)
Please stop.
Well, this is getting interesting isn't it? It's the ABC cut except for the elevator scene. Saw it on ThisTv this morning before rushing off.
I'm guessing someone at Paramount put in the alternate take before handing off a tape to ABC, and presumably muted the end of David's "You Son of a Bitch!" line. ABC could have made a snip or two on their own, but they likely couldn't put in a alternate take.
Someone is going to have to watch the ABC and ThisTv versions side by side to catch any other slight differences.
To the best of my memory, the TWOK credits are simply squeezed, at least they were on the ABC. As they played out over a starfield and not live action footage, there would have been no need to reformat the titles.
The older Trek films are being syndicated by a distributor I've not heard of before. (I saw their logo on the end of a showing of Nemesis a few months back.) Somebody clearly grabbed the wrong tape in the vault.
Whatever preservation comes of out of this is probably going to have to use a bit of everything.
corellian77 said:
I'm just waiting for the conversation to shift to how zeppelins and penny-farthing bicycles aren't outdated modes of transportation... by today's standards, of course.
;)
I think I need to lie down...
I like the way you think. The third image is coming up broken though.
That makes me wonder if a digital tuner would even work with a monochrome set?
The manufacturing capability is apparently still there, as there karaoke machines with five inch monochrome CRT screens.
I've seen portable tv's hooked up to solar panels. ;)
AntcuFaalb said:
Harmy said:
VCD is a format, which was never really alive :D
It was actually the most popular format in Asia for a long time.
Recent feature films are still coming out. I've seen them listed over at yesasia.com.
DVD players are so cheap these days, I'm amazed there's still a niche for VCD.
As you can still buy blank tape in some places, and DVD/VHS combos are still being sold, I would classify it as pining for the fjords. ;)
This still bakes my noodle...
How hard would it be to have this iconic Trek battle mixed into the canyon scene where Luke gets ambushed by the Sand People? ;)
Threepios fall could trigger the boulder that falls on the Gorn...
Kirk's bamboo cannon could be what knocks Artoo out earlier in the movie.
Alternatively, you could have the canyon scene from Raiders playing out at the same time, as it was filmed in the same location.
AntcuFaalb said:
MaximRecoil said:
the question of objective video quality
The use of the DVNR1000 was not only heavy-handed in 1993, it was unnecessary*. I can see the smearing on my 13" 4:3 CRT (Sony KV-13FS110). This looked like shit in 1993 (DefCol LDs), 1995 (Faces LDs), 2006 (GOUT DVDs), and now.
And, yes, people complained about it in 1993 on Usenet; mostly on alt.video.laserdisc.
I know this is just my opinion, so it's certainly subjective, but I think it comes a lot closer to being objective than many of assessments given in previous posts.
(* FWIW, I've seen the pre-DVNR1000 master used for the DefCol ANH. It's not that dirty; certainly not dirty enough to make the use of the DVNR1000 a requirement for release. I think this is just a case of George&co. wanting to play with toys again.)
There were video magazines that made the same observations at the time. I almost took the DC boxset back to the store because I thought some of the discs were defective in some way, and I was rocking with a 21 inch tv at the time.
I didn't know what DVNR was back then, but I knew something didn't look right compared to previous releases.
There were so many things botched or simply half assed on such a prestigious and expensive Laserdisc release, (it was the flagship THX mastered title) it's not even funny.
The horse is less scary once you've seen World War One photos of the same thing.
However, when I saw this in a old documentary about nuclear weapons, it was freaky.
You'd think the Beeb would have sued Warner's over knicking that Matrix thingy. ;)
The number of concepts Who did years or even decades before anyone else is pretty amazing.
Some toy collecting magazine hung the name "monkey leia" on that hideous thing. I can only imagine what Carrie must have thought! Leia looks rather mannish.
Maybe Kenner used a reference photo of Princess Vespa's stunt double by mistake?
The whole POTF line was popping steroids, except for the droids. Although a buffed out Threepio and Artoo would have been hilarious.
