The Bull's Eyed Womprat

It’s looking really good.

Would also love to be able to see this version.

Definitely interested as well.

I sent you a PM about a good next step for this. PM’s are accessed in the upper right hand corner of your screen, next to your profile avatar.

Thank you for all the hard work on this!

We’re all pulling for you, Poita.

Jakefan17 said:

The other digital roll is just marked Star Wars trilogy and seal has been broken…

Pictures or it didn’t happen.

emanswfan said:

Also, I feel like we will see a 4K OOT fan restoration mixing in appropriate elemnts from 4K77/4k80/4K83 in with these official 4K versions. Also Adywan said ROTJ:R would be sourced off the new 4K version.

These already exist, check out D+77 and D+80 from user oohteedee.

YoshiKiller2S said:

Any updates?

https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k80/

pat man said:

The Bull’s Eyed Womprat said:

pat man said:

TNT will be having a Marathon of Star Wars. I’m curious if these are the “crappy” 04 Blu-ray master or the new 4k masters. I believe they got the rights to air the 16x9 cropped Blu-ray/digital (2015 no fox logo) version a few years back. I don’t have cable anymore so I can’t see for myself.
This could be a good time for Lucasfilm and Disney to drop a teaser for the upcoming new physical 4k disc boxset. Plus, maybe, and look at bonus content.
Unfortunately we can only hope and possibly be disappointed that it’ll just be the “Muclunkey” 19SE in the set.
Someone please see when you get the chance too.

I’ll take a look. When is the marathon airing?

Sw is at 9am EST and Empire is at 11:45am EST tommorow.

Crappy blu-ray master. It included fox fanfare, magenta hues all over, and no maclunkey. Nothing to see here, move along…

pat man said:

TNT will be having a Marathon of Star Wars. I’m curious if these are the “crappy” 04 Blu-ray master or the new 4k masters. I believe they got the rights to air the 16x9 cropped Blu-ray/digital (2015 no fox logo) version a few years back. I don’t have cable anymore so I can’t see for myself.
This could be a good time for Lucasfilm and Disney to drop a teaser for the upcoming new physical 4k disc boxset. Plus, maybe, and look at bonus content.
Unfortunately we can only hope and possibly be disappointed that it’ll just be the “Muclunkey” 19SE in the set.
Someone please see when you get the chance too.

I’ll take a look. When is the marathon airing?

ZigZig said:

AotC was digitally shot in 1,5k… So there is really no need to restore it in 4k.

It was indeed shot at less than 2K, however motion picture film should still be scanned at 4K or more. The reasons being many, but in broad strokes: digital video resolution signifies the size of the ‘container’ that contains the image. During film-out the digital image on any given frame is printed onto a piece of film, and film is a very different ‘container’ than digital. These two types of ‘containers’ are a lot different than any consumer facing publications explain. They often explain that film’s resolution equivalent is somewhere around 4-6K, but that is a bad analogy because the two systems are fundamentally different, i.e. Film’s grain structure, and thus image structure, is continuous, whereas digital is discreet. The image does not retain its discreet nature once it’s on film, it is now rendered by film as continuous. So in order to capture the image as best as possible, a higher resolution is needed. I’m not suggesting that the image ‘gains’ in quality from the film-out process, I’m saying that to transfer a continuous film image to digital, there is ‘loss’ of spacial resolution if you scan at say, 2K. Basically film and digital are not 1:1, in fact they are far from it. In other words, whether an image on film came from a digital file film-out or an optical/photochemical process, you lose quality by scanning at lower resolutions. The size of these losses is debatable, but remember that the pixel resolution of an image is only one part of its image resolution, especially when transferring back and forth between mediums.

I’m seeing the word “final” a lot when you all are discussing this latest round of edits. Some people never learn haha…

Color me impressed! They threaded a very fine needle and made it all into a much better quilt than I could have imagined.

I’m interested, but can’t donate again for a little while.

pittrek said:

What we have been told from different sources

• Bob Iger said to the reporter that they’re thinking the same way or something like that (I can’t find that interview) when she asked him about a possible OOT release
• Disney is starting a streaming service and needs content
• they are scanning absolutely EVERYTHING they have in the Disney archives and the archives of their subsidiaries, including Lucasfilm, and not just released stuff but also things like behind the scenes footage, interviews or deleted scenes

So, IMHO, it’s not an “if” question, but a “when” question.

Thinking the same way as what?

The June 25th grade is smokin!!! seriously excited for this.

How does it compare to that other ideal ESB print that you could screen but not scan?

I don’t think linking to the homepage of this site is a good idea. Have any of you seen the homepage? It looks like a defunct niche website from 2007. It says ‘news’ and the newest thing isn’t from this decade… no offense of course.

Now that I like! The 16mm match

After watching the Kennedy interview, I think when she says ‘those will always remain his’ she was referring to the edits themselves, not the SE’s. Implying she doesn’t want to be associated with the changes at all.

DominicCobb said:

I honestly don’t think George’s beating heart has jack shit to do with any of it, I doubt anyone cares about “not releasing the originals out of respect to him” and the idea some have floated that it might have been in the deal he signed with Disney is simply ludicrous.

Ultimately, I think the real enemy here is simply just apathy and indifference on the part of whoever makes the distribution decisions (which might overlap with the rights issues).

One thing that’s interesting is there’s no way these new filmmakers haven’t brought the OOT up (I know Rian Johnson is on record for criticizing them). I wonder if they know the lowdown and if they’re privy to versions we aren’t.

Damn, shoulda asked Rian about that when I met him…

Is Rian Johnson criticizing the OOT, or the people? Who is ‘them’? also do you have a link? I’d love to see what he has to say as i really like his movie, and am stoked he is helming TLJ.

Donate to the 35mm restoration efforts

i.e. Poita and/or Williarob

Same as always…

it’s a lot cleaner than I expected! thanks for your hard work

frame 66 has a black blurp at the top of the frame, right in the middle
frame 270 has some green smudginess in front of R2

pretty minor issues, but thought i’d contribute 😉