adywan

negative1 said:

i think that blu-ray is just a stop-gap measure before another standard takes its place, or more people go digital..

 

just as digital downloads have replaced/outpaced physical sales with music.. it COULD happen with movies also, given the right combination of infrastructure / pricing / availability...

 

i'd like to think blu-ray will become a high-end videophile niche, much like what happened to laserdisc....

 

it will never go away, unless and IF, (and that's a big IF), they start discontinuing dvd's, and go blu-ray exclusive.. that would really push the format along....or have some (*AHEM STAR WARS*) movie that would also push it further..

 

again, the PS3 factor is really fading away.. PS3 sags in battle against xbox 360/wii http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123050978162738293.html?mod=special_page_campaign2008_mostpop 

 

"But early results from this holiday season aren't promising. U.S. sales of the PS3 fell 19% last month from a year earlier, while sales doubled for the Wii console and rose 8% for the Xbox 360, according to research firm NPD. "

 

later

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But one thing that never seems to be taken into account is the price of the consoles. The PS3 here is still £299 whereas the Xbox360 can now be got for as little as £100. Plus the Xbox360 & the wii can be chipped/ hacked so you can play backups. The PS3 can't. Once that can be hacked then sales will start to take off as long as they start to get better games for the PS3. The ones available at the moment aren't that great compared to ones on the XBox. But has nothing to do with how well blu-ray is doing.

Digital downloading for movies will never work here in the UK as long as BT continues to charge such high prices for lease of their lines. All but one ISP has download limits. Even ones that say they are unlimited have what they call fair usage policies. You can download a couple of GB (sometimes its even as low as 700mb) and then your speeds drop so much that you only just about surf the net let alone download a movie.

DVD's took a long time to take off because many people said they were happy with their videos. The same thing is happening with Blu-ray. It will be a couple of more years before we see which way the format will go.

But with the way the financial climate is at the moment sales will continue to drop for most things as money becomes tight.

I'm not able to view any of the pictures for some reason. Each link just goes to the photobucket home page

MCBarkingSpoon said:

Doctor M said:

What's is bloody hilarious, is I never thought about it before. Mind you I've been hearing him say that line since I was 5 years old.

I stopped thinking about what makes sense in Star Wars 200 viewings ago.

I'm kinda OCD with stuff like that myself, started noticing things like that as a kid. ;)

 

What about when R2 finds Leia on the Death Star in the computer.

3PO: I dont know sir, he keeps saying I found her and that she's here.

Luke: Who?

(At this point R2 makes no sound after the found her bit)

3PO: Princess Leia

What did R2 do, mime who it was afterward?

Adywan, if you ever go back to patch anything else, please add a beep or two from R2 before 3PO says who?

:D

R2 doesn't need to make a sound there at all. He would have already told 3po it was the princess when he was making all that noise

MCBarkingSpoon said:

I ran the test dvd for AOTC,

Looks good from sitting down, but closer to my TV i see artifacts.

My TV is a 52 inch and used my PS3, hdmi cable and all that goodness, could it be that bigger screens will always show some even on BluRay files?

The AOTC test dvd was just a sample from a different source (the hv release which wasn't very good quality) that i won't be using for the final AVCHD.

JediMasterFisher said:

but that is still young vader he changes in 19 years.

 

But he wouldn't have grown about 6 inches though? And if he was more machine than man then surely his bulk would be the same as it was in the OT.  Like i said the transformation was poorly executed and Vader just isn't right. I'm going to have great fun redoing the whole Anakin burned / Vader born section :)

Rhikter said:

Originally posted by Adywan:

"One thing i am planning on, and i really hope that i can pull it off, is i want to replace all footage of Hayden in the vader suit with Dave Prowse's Vader from the OT."

Why?

well for one there is something just not right about Vader's appearance in ROTS. Hayden just does not look right in the costume. His portrayal is just not Vader. look at the end scene when they are looking at the Death Star. he folds his arms. Vader in the OT would never have done that. He doesn't even fill the suit correctly and is too short. he has built up  heels on for gods sake in ROTS. I may not even be able to pull it off but its something i'm seriously considering.

One thing i am planning on, and i really hope that i can pull it off, is i want to replace all footage of Hayden in the vader suit with Dave Prowse's Vader from the OT

Rhikter said:

"That alone proves that there was not enough lung damage, if any at all, to warrant a life support suit. Case closed."

Okay, I'm totally confused now.  What are you arguing?  That Darth Vader should not have a life support suit in the first place?  I'm sure that's not what you're saying given how you revere the OT, but based on your last post that's how it sounds.

No, I'm saying that the argument that his lung damage was caused by the brief seconds he was on fire is such a lame reason and that it should have been handled a different way. The way that ROTS showed Anakin's Damage gave no reasoning why he had a life support suit. His lungs weren't damaged enough to warrant this otherwise he would not have been able to scream while on the operating table. As i said before i want to somehow show a better reason why Anakin's lungs became so damaged that he needed help breathing when i get to ROTS

Jambe Davdar said:

Anybody know any more details about the 2hr edit of the prequels thats going to be shown in the O2 in Greenwich in April 2009?

JD

It's "Star Wars: A Musical Journey" on 10th April. More details can be found HERE.

The thing with all this new canon crap being introduced is that it is pushing the OT further out of the loop. As i have said many times anything outside of the 6 movies does not count to me as being canon. The PT needs to be radically changed to fit in with the OT and not the other way around & that is what i want to accomplish. The "Revisited" saga has nothing to do with any of the spin-offs and never will do. The Clone wars tv series also messes with what we know in the PT so why it is deemed as canon is beyond me. Anakin shouldn't be able to have a Padawan as he isn't yet a master and is still a Padawan himself. Star Wars is becoming a total mess and has done ever since the PT came out. If we are supposed to make the movies to fit in with what the spin-offs include then we have to make the Ewoks speak and revisions to the movies could never end. GL wrote the Ewok films and that makes them canon if we are saying that any star wars stuff GL has a hand in is cannon. Just because he says the series is canon really doesn't mean much any more. He seems to have lost all reasoning as to what the star wars saga is all about and adds anything in without actually thinking if it would mess with something that is already mentioned or is featured in the movies. Also having a video game become canon is damn ridiculous. It seems anything with the star wars name on it now is suddenly canon. The OT came first so everything should be made to fit around those movies. Then everything that followed the PT should also be made to fit those but it doesn't. That is why the only canon that will exist for Revisited is the movies.

And yet again onto Anakin burning then if you're going to say i take a longer look at medical science then maybe you should too because if we are sticking to medical science then Obi-Wan & Anakin would have died long before the battle ended and would ahve both burned to a crisp. Do you know how hot volcanic lava is? The air would be full of poisonous gasses so when outside the structures shields they would have died very quickly. And as i said Anakin is lying face down close and the flames aren't severe around his face so the fire argument doe not work. Smoke inhalation is the biggest factor in any lung damage in a fire. Read about that guy in the link i posted . he was completely on fire, in an enclosed space and he survived without major lung damage. Anakin was on fire for a few seconds. His transformation was very poorly executed. the original explanation having Anakin falling into a lava pit would have made more sense as the lava would have severely burned away most of his body and his lungs & internal organs would have been severely damaged. All we got was a few limbs missing and a bad burn. Also if you listen to Anakin when they are operating on him at the end he is screaming out . So no lung damage. Another thing they screwed up in the PT. That alone proves that there was not enough lung damage, if any at all, to warrant a life support suit. Case closed. lol

rayzine said:

I am a newbie here...

Just want to confirm the following:
1. The "Star Wars Saga - 1080P" mentioned here are refering to the "Revisit" version?
2. Is that only EP 4 and EP 5 available at this moment?
3. Is EP5 also 1080p True 24fps.  As I found some Torrents in the net said it is 23.976fps.

THANKS for the hard works and hope can download to watch them soon...

1. No it isn't the Revisited version
2. Yes. Only Ep 4 & 5 is available at the moment
3. No. Ep 5 is 23.976 because some people had problems with the true 24fps Ep4 with their TV's so Ep 5 was changed to 23.976fps to give it a wider compatibility. There won't be a true 24fps version

Happy Christmas :)

can you not connect to any page using IE or is it just the microsoft one?  If it all sites then check that your firewall isn't blocking IE.

Merry Christmas everybody. :)

I just hope no one has this damn flu bug thats going around like i have. :(

doubleofive said:

Ady, did you find anything on your go-through that any of the "mistake" sites have missed?

I haven't had chance to go through all the mistakes listed on the sites yet so i don't know

AxiaEuxine said:

adywan said:
I have said many times that i don't hate the PT. Just because i rank them well below the OT doesn't mean i hate them (well apart from TPM). I just can't believe that you placed ROTS at number 1 above any of the OT. Are you serious or was that just to stir up some trouble because you don't like anyone that bashes your beloved PT? That film is garbage compared to ANH & ESB. Its worrying, and saddening,  when i see when some Star Wars fans rate the originals lower than the PT.

 

 Hey Adywan, I just watched your masterpiece again last night with my wife. Great stuff. I am not trying to stir up anything that would be junvenile. I know my opinions are unpopular here so I am trying to treat everyone with respect. My list is genuine. Im sorry you don't get the same jow out of the Star Wars saga that I do, that is saddening to me.

There are times that i really wish i could see the Star Wars saga like you do because it has been such a huge part of my life but i just can't see past all the flaws that the prequel trilogy has.

Monroville said:

Ripplin said:

^That's a really old one that was "fixed" in the 2004 DVD. And it was never his jacket, it's just a shadow trick. There's a video somewhere that shows him stapping back into the shadow and the difference in lighting on his shoulders is tremendous.

um, sorry to knock on your bucket, but that's a jacket, not a shadow.  There's no way his shirt can be white AND black at the same time if he is in a shadow (which would shade his entire shirt, including his collar).

Because you know if this isn't fixed, the whole movie will be ruined for me.  FOREVER!

 

Sorry to knock your bucket (lol) but it is you that is wrong. It is not his jacket at all but just the lighting that created this illusion. Here's the proof taken from Empire of Dreams.

So there you have it. Solved

Sevb32 said:

Adywan, are you going to the look at the stills on moviemistakes.com for a guide on errors to correct?

yes, i've been looking through that site.

1. The Empire Strikes back ( A masterpiece)
2. Star Wars (total classic)
3. Return of the Jedi (the signs of the long slide down to the prequels)
4. Attack of the clones (the only PT movie the whole family enjoyed at the cinema but many cringe worthy moments)
5. Revenge of the Sith ( Total disappointment with everything being wrapped up in a rush at the end and the kids fell asleep half way through which was not a good sign)
6. The Phantom menace (the only Star Wars film i have ever walked out of the cinema speechless and depressed. Haven't been able to watch again since its DVD release. )

AxiaEuxine said:

If we are talking about Star Wars then yes, I love the original editions. I also love the special editions and some fan edits, In fact I just got done watching SW revisted. what a mastepiece. It only makes me sad that he hates the prequels .

I have said many times that i don't hate the PT. Just because i rank them well below the OT doesn't mean i hate them (well apart from TPM). I just can't believe that you placed ROTS at number 1 above any of the OT. Are you serious or was that just to stir up some trouble because you don't like anyone that bashes your beloved PT? That film is garbage compared to ANH & ESB. Its worrying, and saddening,  when i see when some Star Wars fans rate the originals lower than the PT.

Knightmessenger said:

I've seen some of the color correction split screen comparisons on youtube. If anything those are great to point out just how bad the 2004 transfers were. I don't know if those are the final look or still in progress but there are a few cases where I think the part of the shot should stay blue.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTp8mKFxmbg&feature=related

In the Milennium Falcon. There's a bright wide light in the cockpit. One example is at 50 seconds above Leia's head. I'm pretty sure that's part is blue even on the gout.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaskolmE944

Some of the exterior shots of the walkers. The sky looks like it loses too much of the blue hue with the color correction. This occurs at 29 37 49 53 seconds. Now I saw another comparison uploaded about 3 months later in October called Hoth Split Screen. It seems to be the same part but with different color correction. The sky appears to maintain it's proper blue color in this sample.

The hoth battle clip you posted the link to was a first pass of the colour correction. The later one you mention is the final one

as for the cockpit lights here's a comparison between versions:

Hunter6 said:

The thing about majel's voicing the computer for this JJ Trek movie is that when a person looks at the info and facts, it really, really looks like an low move by JJ.

This movie had been finish and Originally this movie was going to be released Dec 25 2008. This Movie was done with the Dec 25 2008 release date in mind and JJ never had Majel recorded her voice or even said she was going to it. Then the release date was changed (which is something JJ hated) to May 2009 and the finish film was put in the can a'till May 2009. All this year with the film in the can waiting for it's new release date, JJ never had Majel recorded her voice or even said she was going to it.

Then days before she died, Majel recorded for the new movie on Dec 4 2008.

Majel died Dec 18 2008 only 14 days after recorded for the new movie.

Odd timing that JJ record Majel only 14 days before she died and that before then, JJ never had Majel recorded her voice or even said she was going to be in this film for the past 8 months.

It really, really looks like JJ was not going to have Majel in this film, but then JJ heard about Majel dying and ran to her death-bed to have her record some lines for his film before she died just for JJ to say that she is in the film.

Low move, JJ.

It is also Low that in JJ Abrams condolence for Majel that JJ throws in a plug for his Star Trek:

"She will be immortalized by her life’s work, including, I feel lucky and honored to say, her performace in the latest chapter in the Star Trek saga." -JJ Abrams. 

What is the next low move for you, JJ Abrams. are you going to sell parts of Majel's body off on EBAY or just use her name to push your film now that she is dead.

-------

I'm for one is really sick of all Abrams actions with trek.

I really feel that trek-fans need to do like skyjedi2005 said by boycotting this movie. 

 

 

You do realise that what you are doing there could be protrayed as being as low as what you reckon JJ has been over  Majel's death because he mentioned the new film ? You, unknowingly, are using her death to portray what a low life you believe  JJ is.

Majel died of leukaemia and would have been undergoing some really horrible treatment so would have probably been unable to record the voice originally for the movie but when she realised she was dying it may well have been her wish that she record the lines. Do you know that he never asked her to do the voice originally? No.  Just because JJ mentioned star trek in his condolences doesn't mean that he was plugging his movie at all. God you really come up with things that aren't even there. So everyone who worked on the Dark knight and said that it was a privilege to work with Heath Ledger on Dark Knight was just throwing in a plug for the movie and were being disrespectful? Come on, seriously now.

So Gene would have hated the movie because it isn't his original vision for Star Trek? Well Star Trek has never been his original vision from the day the first series started. Don't you even remember "The Cage?" That was his original vision and the network didn't like it so he changed the format of the show to what we all know as TOS. Even James Kirk's middle name changed in the TOS. And Spock originally showed emotion in the cage but became emotionless in the series. 

You know little about the movie and haven't even seen it yet but continue to slate it. I love ST and have grown up with it from the TOS re-runs in the UK in the early 70's. It continued to change a grow with the times, especially design wise.  Star Trek became stale and it needed a good kick in the ass. whether this movie is it, that remains to be seen but i for one won't judge it on a trailer and some gossipy titbits alone. If the movie turns out to be a big steaming turd then i'll be one of the first to admit it but some will still slate the movie even if it turns out to be great.

nohandluke said:

This may have been brought up before, and if so I apologize, but I was watching the GOUT DVD this morning and I noticed that when the Falcon releases its landing claw and starts to float away from the Star Destroyer, the view through the cockpit frame has this awful flub in the composite on the right side of the cockpit frame where it looks like they misaligned the background plate because there is this dark gray "screen edge," a perfectly straight edge that is dark gray and covers some of the Falcon's cockpit windows as they float away - clearly unintended, a serious effects flaw.

Is this in the Special Edition/2004 DVD?

Yeh, that was fixed in the SE

ImperialFighter said:

Serji-X Arrogantus said:

Don't know if this has been mentioned and I'm not going through 186 other pages to find out.

 

The AT-AT pilots have a red stripe down the back of their helmets towards the end of the Walker Battle.

 

 

Yeah, that's definately been previously flagged up, but I don't know what page.  I don't think Adywan confirmed if he was going to add or remove them, so that the shots are consistent.  I hope he adds, as I really like that extra colour in those shots.

Please, no messing around with the Asteroid Worm's dentures....  But yes, John Carpenter's 'The Thing' is awesome stuff still.  :) 

yeh i will be fixing that but not sure if they will be removed or added yet.

Asteroid-Man said:

I fix the aspect ratio and everything but now it's pixelated and laggy.... I just ran a scan over the source DVD and Adywan's cut is 720X304 with a 23 framerate... so looks like I wasn't bringing down the quality.... now onto AOTC!

The DVD version of ANH:R is 720 x 480 and not 720 x 304 because its anamorphic. Are you resizing it to non anamorphic for your edit?

make sure you download the par2 files too. download quickpar and install it then open up one of the par2 files with it. it will scan the files and repair any if necessary.

BarBar Jinkx said:

yeah what the heck is that thing?

you actually answered your own question :). Its from "The Thing". Great movie

no, just shows the yellow box here. No pic