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#247891
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OUT: PAL or NTSC?
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Originally posted by: ThunderPeel2001
THX: Why would you say that? 1) not all UK (Region 2) based display devices support "NTSC";
2) not all UK (Region 2) based playback devices support "NTSC";
3) even where both do, they can be rendered effectively incompatible in some circumstances;
3) not all UK (Region 2) based playback devices support region 1 playback (i.e. are region-free/multi-region).

So, without knowing your specific set-up or level of knowledge, and given that the PAL GOUT upscale is a decent one, my advice was good as a general principle. Originally posted by: ThunderPeel2001
Still not seeing why THX should tell everyone to only buy DVDs that are made for their specific region or why you should back it up...
I wasn't telling "everyone to only buy" anything - I was advising you, because you asked. Likewise, Moth3r wasn't backing me up, he was adding his considerable knowledge and opinion to a discussion. However, it seems you know what you are talking about and are quite capable of answering your own question. BTW, welcome to the forums.

Karyudo, I guess he's referring to the fact that the terms PAL & NTSC don't strictly refer to the resolution/frame rate, but rather the color system, even though everyone uses the terms that way for DVD.
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#247670
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Are the PAL GOUT DVDs upscaled from the NTSC masters?
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boris, give it a rest, seriously. You are not a troll, IMHO, and you do contribute to this forum (nice catch on the crawl). I've stayed out a lot of threads where you demonstrated either a lack of technical knowledge or a lack of ability to express it clearly, because others were doing fine setting you straight and I didn't want to pile on the misery. But I don't like to see Laserman's time wasted with this stuff. He is our most knowledgeable poster, IMHO, and I don't like seeing any of his limited number of posts wasted on correcting you. No offence is intended, and I welcome your contributions to other threads.
Originally posted by: boris
I really don't think you can compare that blur. The Laserdisc blur would be true "un-focus", and technically not a blur.
No comment.
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#247081
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Info: Best OUT materials at Lucasfilm?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/247081/action/topic#247081
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The idea is to have an easily readable resource for those interested in the potential for an official restoration and/or anamorphic DVD/HD release. If anyone knows any further information, please post it here. I'd appreciate it if people would refrain from the type of posting sometimes seen in General Star Wars Discussion, along the lines of:

yeah, Luca$$h could give us everything we want but he'd rather stick it to the fans = Luca$$h is teh suxxorz!!!!!!!111!!1!

That's just a personal request. Of course this does not apply to Stinky-Dinkins, who can post anything he wants, as long as it's funny.
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#247075
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Info: Best OUT materials at Lucasfilm?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/247075/action/topic#247075
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Originally posted by: lord3vil
Scruffy, Zombie,

Thanks for a couple of really informative posts! While I've gathered from various reasonably credible sources over the years that Lucasfilm certainly has the means to do a full restoration of the OOT, its very interesting to get to know some more details!
Originally posted by: Scruffy
So, in 1997, we have 90% of the O-neg intact in the SE and the remaining 10% in the digital domain.
When I followed the coverage of the restoration work for the SE on various fansites on the net back in 1996 and 1997, I remember that I picked up from somewhere that the original films were eventually scanned digitally in their entirety, not just the selected shots that were to be updated with new CGI. What's been said here appears to contradict this though. Do we know within reasonable doubt that the movies were fully digitized only quite recently, as in after the turn of the century, or could there be indeed be older fully digital sources from the original SE work as well?