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#239182
Topic
Star Wars DVD Covers
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/239182/action/topic#239182
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WOW! You've got great artistic tallents, Falle.

Two remarks: the white outlines around the characters needs to be a little hazy, or have some glow. And you need some "smoke plumes" around the characters as well (John Alvin uses them a lot).

Another remark: a spaceship! Or some kind of vehicule, like the John Alvin posters.
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#239129
Topic
Slideshow of ANH changes since 1977
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/239129/action/topic#239129
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Originally posted by: Mavimao
My favorite is picture 28 - when the big ronto passes the land speeder when Luke and company get stopped in Mos Eisley. Wow...what an improvement. A high-rez texture in my face.


It completly ruins the scene, IMHO.

I remember a SFX wizard bragging how they were able to put a lot of Rontos in the Mos Esley scenes. In fact, there is at least two of them in every scene. This is so stupid... And that poor beast is not even interesting! It is one of the most poorly designed creature in the Star Wars Universe....
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#236959
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aspect ratio
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/236959/action/topic#236959
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You can find the aspect ratio by hand:

Take a picture of the screen while the movie is playing on your computer
Load this picture in an image editing software (like PhotoShop)
With the "rectangular lasso tool", select only the image of the movie
your editing software should show you the width and height of the selection (I know PhotoShop do that)
The aspect ratio is the width divided by the height!

(by the way, it's 1.33:1, 1.78:1, 1.85:1 and 2.35:1, not 1:33:1 1:78:1 etc. because it simply says that if your screen is 1 meter high, the picture will be 1.33, 1.78, 1.85 or 2.35 meters across)
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#230584
Topic
.: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/230584/action/topic#230584
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Originally posted by: blitter
First of all, I own a copy of the Dr. Gonzo set and on that version there is an impressive CGI remake of the trench scene from ANH that pans out into the THX logo (with the trademark "THX sound"), which then explodes.


This THX trailer is a fan film. More info on this page.
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#228709
Topic
first viewing of the 2006 OOT dvds
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/228709/action/topic#228709
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Originally posted by: garethxxgod
Those screen shots do look pretty terrible.....they aren't going to be that bad are they?


As I said, they are from a quicktime movie (the "DVD Singles Trailer" available in the Hyperspace section of the official site), and they really show too much compression (DVDs have a far better resolution and aren't as much compressed).

To everyone who like to see this trailer (but it's not worth it), it has been posted to alt.binaries.starwars on Usenet. You'll need a newsgroup reader software for that (I use Unison on Mac OS X).
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#227097
Topic
20 years ago, would anyone believe...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/227097/action/topic#227097
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- Greedo would shot first
- Han would step on Jabba's tail
- A special effect from a Star Trek movie would be added to the three major explosions in the Trilogy
- The Wampa would look like an (awfully bad) actor in a fur suit
- Windows would be cut in every room and corridor on Cloud City
- Vader would ask for "Alerting his Star Destroyer to prepare for his arrival"
- The Sarlacc would grow a beak
- Vader would shave his eyebrows
- Sebastian Shaw as Anakin's Ghost would be replaced by a young actor that was in his diapers when the movie was made

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#219890
Topic
OK, the DVDs are coming...so how bad are they going to look?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/219890/action/topic#219890
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Originally posted by: boris
Originally posted by: Mielr
I read somewhere once that DVDs don't look their best on computer monitors because the pixels on a computer are a different shape than those on a TV. I don't know how much truth there is to that, though.

Some of my DVDs look gorgeous on my computer, some don't. The DVDs I record myself don't look good when played on my computer, for some reason- lots of motion artifacts, etc., but look great when played on my TV (I have an old Apple iMac and an early version of Apple DVD player, BTW).
Yep that's right. When you watch a DVD on a computer it suffers from interpolation because "TV" resolutions aren't supported by standard PC resolutions, whether it's anamorphic or non-anamorphic, PAL or NTSC. Computer monitors have "square" pixels (though in some modes this can be altered - if you do this photos and such will be in their incorrect aspect ratio).


This is only true if you watch DVD on an analog TV. Most modern TV, even CRT ones, are digital now. So the signal coming from the DVD player is digitized, and processed, before being displayed. I'm not sure that the process being done in a digital TV is any better than the zooming process being done by a software DVD player. Really good "blow up" algorithms exists.


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#219719
Topic
Say the SE release in theaters bombed in 1997?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/219719/action/topic#219719
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Originally posted by: Darth Richard
Good Idea, but there is one catch then this website would no longer exist


Then CO and Darth-Adroit didn't met, they don't go back in time to change history, then this website still exist, so they can meet each other, change history, and then this website no longer exists, they don't met and don't change history, this website exist..........

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#219716
Topic
OK, the DVDs are coming...so how bad are they going to look?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/219716/action/topic#219716
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Originally posted by: boris
Originally posted by: Z6PO
Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Yes, on a computer, you would have four black bars... well, assuming it's a wide screen, like mine is. That would render it quite tiny on my computer (which is what I primarily use for watching TV and movies when I'm at school).


Some software DVD players have a zoom function that allows you to get rid of the vertical black bars. The Apple DVD Player on Mac OS X (10.4), for example...
Who has widescreen computer monitors anyway? Movies will look better on TV's then on monitors.


People that use Apple computers? Apple monitors and Apple notebooks screens are all widescreens (the aspect ratio is 16:10, on all models).

As to movies looking better on a TV than a monitor, I don't see why there should be a difference.
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#219676
Topic
OK, the DVDs are coming...so how bad are they going to look?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/219676/action/topic#219676
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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Yes, on a computer, you would have four black bars... well, assuming it's a wide screen, like mine is. That would render it quite tiny on my computer (which is what I primarily use for watching TV and movies when I'm at school).


Some software DVD players have a zoom function that allows you to get rid of the vertical black bars. The Apple DVD Player on Mac OS X (10.4), for example...