ZigZig

RU.08 said:

Well in any case I can get an 8tb drive for this project, so storage is sorted at least for a single-flash scan. If someone else wants to contribute the remainder of the storage we can get it triple-flashed.

We will need some substantial donations to get this done though, so let me know if you’re willing to donate to this and how much and we’ll see if we can raise enough to scan or not. I’ll just take pledges for now and if we get enough then move to donations. 😃

I’ll also provide a HD, it is currently on the way to Poita.

DuracellEnergizer said:

I found Jagged Edge a boring, predictable waste of 108 minutes, but I haven’t seen anything else he made.

Did he make anything else ?

For me, ROTJ really sucks. The Jabba scenes, the Ewoks, the Endor “battle”, the sister thing… Not to mention the poor direction (am I the only one to think that Richard Marquand was not a good director at all ?)

Not only does all this make the movie bad… but hey, it was the LAST episode, the conclusion: it was supposed to be the best movie of the trilogy, not the worst!
I was just a kid, and I remember how I was disappointed when I left the theater: the struggle of good against evil, the initiatory quest of the Force, the search for the father … all that ends with teddy bears, a bad dance group at Jabba’s house, Boba Fett that slips and dies just as “POOF”, and a hidden sister?

I’m not trying to compare the OT with the PT. But in terms of personal disappointment, ROTJ was much more disappointing for me - because I expected so much more.
16 years after that, TPM was not as disappointing for me. It was not up to expectations, but the dream was already broken long before…

PM sent.

I have 4 x Seagate IronWolf 8TB in my NAS and I wouldn’t change for anything in the world!
Compared to Western Digital, they are a bit noisier, but I have no problems with stability or performance, they do not heat up unnecessarily and IronWolf’s internal health tools are frankly useful.

poita said:

Only certain models will work, preferred is the Seagate Skyhawk 8TB internal.

Hi Poita,

If you can find the exact model you need on Amazon, please let me know and I will order it and send it to your address (if OK for you, don’t hesitate to PM me).

OK, just let me know how and when I’ve to send money, I’ll be happy to participate to this project.

Ok, so the needs are financial more than technical. Fine for me, just tell me how I can participate!

You can count on me, I certainly can financially participate and maybe provide cloud space for the 21TB of storage. Just tell me how and when I can participate.

poita said:

I have the option of scanning the 35mm version of TPM if there is any interest.

Dear Poita,

I’m deeply interested, and I would be honored to help you in any way (edit: including financial contribution of course) .

The T-shirt appeared at leat 13 years ago in “A Cinderella Story” (2004) : http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FOj0dDyraGg/TCb3iFLbuNI/AAAAAAAAAaI/4ye22RgNiZc/s1600/ACinderellaStory_VaderFramed.jpg

I don’t know the genesis of this gag, but it is pretty old.

Edit: Google shows that some guy used this gag as signature in a forum in 2002: https://forum.dvdtalk.com/2938981-post32.html

So this gag is at least 15 years old…

SilverWook said:

As I’ve said before, I think the Ewoks got tamed in the editing room.

Icky Sex in Star Wars, again.

lovelikewinter said:

How can you not love Wilfred Brimley using the power of Diabeetus to beat up an alien king and rescue teddy bears?

Did you write this sentence under the influence of illegal substances?

I need those beautiful covers prominently on my shelf!

lovelikewinter said:

I like the Ewoks. Except for Wicket hitting himself in the face, the comedy was mostly in their non battle scenes. I also really like the two Ewok TV movies and would love a blu-ray release of them.

Did you write this sentence under duress?

SilverWook said:

Me too! It took Jar Jar to make me realize that of course.

If you invert the syllables of “ewok”, it gives “wookie”.
But if you invert the syllables of “Jar Jar”, it still gives “Jar Jar”.

Incredible but true…

Dear Matt Brown,

Do Apple and MS think that the Prequels are THAT bad?
Is Apple Pippin video console THAT bad ?
Is Microsoft Windows 8 THAT bad ?

Thank you for your answer. May the force be with you.

Or maybe a good H265 compression could drastically reduce the needed size.

Die, Ewok, die!

ChainsawAsh said:

Can a standard Blu-Ray player even play discs larger than a BD50?

It depends on the technology behind the 100GB (triple-layer OR 4-layer aka 3BDXL or 4BDXL, reflecting surface, aso…), and on the player obviously.

From Wikipédia:
In January 2007, Hitachi showcased a 100 GB Blu-ray Disc, consisting of four layers containing 25 GB each.[79] Unlike TDK and Panasonic’s 100 GB discs, they claim this disc is readable on standard Blu-ray Disc drives that are currently in circulation, and it is believed that a firmware update is the only requirement to make it readable to current players and drives.[80] In December 2008, Pioneer Corporation unveiled a 400 GB Blu-ray Disc (containing 16 data layers, 25 GB each) that will be compatible with current players after a firmware update. Its planned launch was in the 2009–10 time frame for ROM and 2010–13 for rewritable discs. Ongoing development was underway to create a 1 TB Blu-ray Disc. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray)

So I’m not sure that BDXL are readable by all players, and I would avoid those big BR…

DuracellEnergizer said:

I don’t believe Genesis purists would even regard those songs as Genesis.

But then, if those songs are not Phil Collins and not Genesis, what are they?

ZigZig said:

Anchorhead said:

ZigZig said:
I did not know that in addition to Star Wars exegetes, there were also Genesis purists around here.

“Darth Vader, agitator, keeps asking questions, says he wants to know why”

You made my day!

I don’t think so.

Only one centered dot is the diagram for “Mono”, so I would use it in this case, even if the encoding is on L/R channels.

Joel said:

I believe the term is “Mono” whether it’s encoded as a center-channel-only file or the same file in both stereo L and R tracks.

“Dual Mono” is usually used to describe amplifier circuit topology in which each channel of a stereo pair is processed/amplified separately.

You are absolutely right.
Mono/Stereo refers to the number of distinct sources (in caricature, the number of microphones), not to the number of channels. So here, there is only one source, even if 2 channels render it.

So yes, it is simply “mono”.