A VHS deck could set you back a couple thousand bucks back in the '70's.
Now that there are people on the board who've never heard of Betamax, I'll be retiring to a nice little house in Florida now. ;)
It says in the listing two rewriteable discs are included.
MrBrown said:
All you guys are soo sick!
After I read the first posts I scroll up to check if it was piostet on Aprils fools day.... but .. but.. you are serious!
Well.. how do I get it, after its finished? I really love the idea!
Its bad that LaserDisc is no longer produced, and that it is impossible to find a small private LD-pressing factory where this idead could be released for fans in the forum as LD. :) This isn't a joke, I would love to have adywans revisited on VHS or VHS style.. but in LaserDisc it would be really awesome!
If you've got $5000 lying around, it can be done! ;)
On a related note, has anybody seen that promo on Adult Swim for their block party thing? It looks like they dubbed it off to U-matic and back to have analog video tracking errors on purpose!
I've long thought Tattooine being a desert planet, and Han Solo being in hock to Jabba for losing a shipment of "spice", must be homages to the Dune novel.
The irony is that I recall a clueless critic or two accusing Dune of ripping off Star Wars.
Surprised they didn't wait until the SW Celebration in August to announce this.
I am not getting my hopes up. Not this time...
It covered some of the post production phase as well.
But I fear if they do use any of it, those pesky things Lucas wish he hadn't said in 1979 will be found nowhere outside of slowly disintegrating 30 year old paperbacks.
I did buy the magazine today, and picked up Star Wars insider as well. It has a few pages of Empire storyboards, and yet another picture of Leia and Chewie making out. ;)
Probably because they are similar to other set photos taken at the same time. That cover photo is new to me though!
You'd think the new book release would be timed to the actual 30th anniversary next month. I'm itching to know if the original book is incorporated or ignored completely.
Here's another crazy idea. Have one of the other Voyagers be captured and studied by whoever sent the probe to talk to the humpbacks in ST4. There are whales singing on that gold record after all. ;)
IIRC, the opening scenes of John Carpenter's Starman would have most of the footage needed.
The only problem with that is there's ample evidence from TNG and First Contact that the Borg were around centuries before the events of TMP.
How about a closeup of a Borg style display with V'Gers transmission being intercepted/received, combined with the opening shot from FC of the massive Cube interior? Picard would have to be erased from the shot somehow...
Is there any way to morph the starchild from 2010 into a Decker/Ilia/V'Ger hybrid? ;)
The old full frame CBS/FOX Laserdisc was slightly sped up to fit on one platter back in the day.
I'm glad there wasn't a DVD I missed out on then!
The LDDB says the theatrical cut was out on LD in 1981. I'm pretty sure I saw VHS and Beta copies around before the SLV replaced it after '83. Paramount kept the catalog numbers the same.
The story circulating at the time the Letterbox LD's came out was that Robert Wise preferred the theatrical version. It was also rumored that the footage added to the 1983 ABC broadcast, (which became the SLV on video) had been tossed, making a widescreen version impossible.
Imagine the surprise when all those extra scenes popped up on disc 2 of the DE in widescreen!
If there's a single disc DVD of the TMP theatrical cut out there, I'd like to see a photo of it. Maybe you're thinking of TWOK?
The DE came out last, then Paramount remastered/reissued all the sequels in chronological order as two disc sets. Several of the early single disc sets were from non-anamorphic LD masters.
I though it was "Garth Vader" for a while back in '77. I have no idea why. ;)
When I first saw the DSII on the cover of Starlog before Jedi came out, I was convinced it was the remains of the original Death Star being rebuilt.
I also thought Boussh was a new bounty hunter or mercanary hired to help rescue Han. Boussh would be revealed as a woman, who falls for Han, and cause more complications for the now infamous love triangle. Amazing that the truth didn't leak out before opening day!
This site has some info on the sound mixes. And what came first.
http://www.in70mm.com/news/2003/star_wars/index.htm
There are theatrical DTS discs of the SE in private hands. The labels indicate they have a six track mix. I don't think anybody has ever figured out how to play them without the proper gear though.
Upscaling relates to video, not film.
Even if someone had a good 70mm print lying around, there aren't a whole lot of telecines around that can handle them. Unless someone has one in their basement.
We can still drool over these frame scans, and lament that we'll probably never get to enjoy a 70mm OT screening.
captainsolo said:
Is it worth looking for the early THX mastered snapper DVDs of Dr. No, FRWL, Goldfinger, TSWLM, and Moonraker?
The early Moonraker disc is the only case of DVD rot I've ever had. Even my PC can't read it. It also suffered a bit from cramming the whole movie on a single layer. (Pan and scan version on the other layer as opposed to a being a flipper.) I miss the menus it had though. It and TSWLM actually came out as MGM switched to regular cases though.
Dr. No, FRWL, and Goldfinger are worth getting if you want to see the open matte transfers, or see the wires that were digitally painted out on the Lear Jet models. ;)
I thought it looked familiar! Forgot Voyager was using mostly CGI by that point.
Could it still work for viewscreen shots? Or Chekov's targeting display?
And Jeyl, Voyager was shot on film, but edited on video, which means we may never see it in HD. Cropping the shots can be done, as with the proposed prologue using TOS footage shown a couple pages back.
Caught part of the Voyager episode "Prophecy" tonight, and it's got some Klingon cruiser shots you might be able to use, including an explosion.
I know there were wind-up Robby the Robots, but I've yet to see Krell Brainboost science kits, and Monsters from the ID plush toys. ;)
If that is the case, what was the big deal on the 1997 "restoration" with claims the films would be faded past the point of no return if they had not acted in time?
Wow, since when do we get this kind of spamage around here?
Still wondering what happened to that Bigfoot movie Mayhew was supposed to be doing a few years back...
How hard would it be to dub her lines before V'Ger zaps her? I've only seen Persis Khambatta in two other movies, but she was much more emotional in a cheesefest like "Warrior of the Lost World" than in TMP.
I think the constantly changing script and other problems on the set did't give her a whole lot to work with.
I learned a couple years ago, that Youtube attracts loonies, and people who post comments while either drunk or stoned. ;)
Check your PM's lately?
It's a shame post production was rushed to meet the release date, resulting in dodgy matte lines and such. Douglas Trumbull couldn't have been too happy having his name on the final product.
I've been wondering if the raw FX footage was saved. TNG used a shot of the Klingon cruiser a few times in the early seasons, only it had a new starfield behind it. And the engine glow was changed from red to blue.