beyourowndensity

Off topic, Frink, but your signature is hilarious.

But that's the thing, none of them even had a menu. All three of them (ROTJ included) were completely fine on my laptop, quality and everything. And I've Googled the problem about playing burned DVDs and now I almost definitely think it's because our player is too old. I think we're getting a new one soon anyway, so hopefully this problem will be solved!

Okay! I've finally managed to get the trilogy thanks to some very kind individual offering to burn the DVDs for me then sending them to me. But now I've run into another problem. They work PERFECTLY on my laptop... but they don't work on our DVD player. For the first two movies this weird menu pops up that I can't get rid of with this file reading "VIDEO_TS". The only one that actually plays is Return of the Jedi (maybe because this is the only disc that is DVD-R, while the other two are DVD-RW), but for some bizarre reason the quality is absolutely appalling; the picture is slightly pixelated. The quality is fine on my laptop! But I don't know whether this is to do with our DVD player being kind of old (it's the type that also has a VCR player built in). Anybody know why this is?

Right. I've followed advice from a private message I got and made an account with MySpleen (the only plaze they knew where you could get DVD5 copies), I made a new post asking about the DVD5 versions and how that website worked and also said that I wasn't planning on doing a hit-and-run with the movies...but my post has been archived in a no longer running forum full of people asking about the Harmys. Someone did try to explain it to me how torrenting and seeding worked if I DID get an invite and thus the movies, but it looks like it was a colossal waste of time. I don't have a clue where I'm going to find them. I'm starting to feel like giving up, honestly.

Oh, God. I literally have no idea what I'm doing. I'm looking for this v2.5 DVD5 file thing on Google, but I can't really find what I've been told I need if I want to burn them so they work on a DVD player. Are these movies in one download or do I need to find three of them? And where is there a safe place to get ImgBurn? The links from the official website have all given me warnings from McAfee. And honestly, I have no idea what a torrent is. Also, I'm looking for which discs I need to get from Amazon if I want to do this. Will 4.7gb be enough?? I'm sorry! But I'm so confused here.

towne32 said:

iamsometal said:

After purchasing the retail versions of the films:

Download the .iso files from wherever you can find them.  You'll need to burn them to Verbatim DVD+R DL discs.  There's a helpful video on youtube that will walk you through the process.  Just search "How to get Original Unaltered Star Wars Trilogy on Blu-ray."  Ignore the blu-ray in the title, this video will explain how to burn to DVD+R DL discs.

 I'm not super familiar with the DVDs, so density can ignore me if I'm wrong, but isn't the DVD-DL an AVCHD? And wouldn't that be of no use to him without a blu-ray player?

I thought the only native DVD versions were DVD5s, but I could certainly be wrong. Anyway, the main point of this is good. Density, you can google to find torrents of the DVD versions of despecialized. And google how to use torrents if you're not familiar. Once downloaded, use imgburn to burn it to a blank DVD (the above discussion was whether or not you need a single or double layer DVD - I'm not sure). You might find a ".iso" file as described above, or it might be a folder full of files. I've only seen the latter for the DVD5 Harmy releases. Either way, imgburn can do it and google has anything that we might be leaving out of these posts. 

 Wait, what is meant by "after purchasing the retail versions of the films"? I already have the Special Editions, are the retail movies required for me to download the Despecialised versions? And are there certain types of discs I can use to make the DVDs higher quality without making them unusable on a DVD player? (to add further confusion to the "which disc" argument)

I'm a girl, by the way. Just putting that out there. XD

towne32 said:

beyourowndensity said:

Wazzles said:

Leonardo said:

Hello and welcome! You're in the right place. Nice username.

I've heard of some people pirating these, but I really don't want to steal something that has had so much time and love put into it. So...what do I do?

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. You mean you want to watch the Despecialized but you don't wanna "pirate" it? 

 I'm pretty sure he means just getting these in the most legal way possible. Harmy's recommendation is to purchase the Blu Rays (and maybe the official DVDs, but I'm not sure). That way you own the bulk of the sources that he used that are available. After that, you can torrent these. If you Google well enough, you can find the torrents very easily.

This is what I meant, but I heard that since that this was classified as a fan-edit, putting it up for sale in exchange for money was illegal. And I watched a video on YouTube explaining how to do this (via MySpleen.org, but the explanation doesn't seem feasible anymore) - and the guy said that pirating it would also be illegal. Honestly, I've never done this sort of thing before, so I don't really have a freaking clue what I'm doing.

Oh, and is there a version available for DVD if I were to burn it to a disc? Unfortunately we don't own a Blu-Ray player and I haven't been able to convince my family to get one thus far.

 "You must do what you feel is right."

Harmy wants people to own the Blurays because he wants to make sure his work isn't causing a loss of sales for Lucasfilm. If you don't even own a blu-ray player, I personally would see no moral problem with you buying the DVDs instead. Especially if you end up burning the film to DVD. In fact, I believe fanedit.org's policy (not Harmy, but similar standards) is that you own at least the resolution of the fanedit. So, do what you feel is right, and if it's not exactly what others do, but some variation, just keep it to yourself. No one goes around quizzing people on their official discs here. But there are some people who go as far as proudly brag about how they never have or never will buy anything official, but love this or that fanedit. We tend to grab our pitchforks and relentlessly chew them out.

There is no perfectly legal way of doing this. But there are indeed DVD versions on torrent sites that you can burn to a standard DVD-R.

Okay. Okay, that sort of clears it up for me. Thank you. What remains a mystery to me now is this: where do I get the Despecialised Editions for DVD, and how do I burn them to discs? What kind of discs do I need, as well as equipment/programmes? Some help from any of the experts on here would be most appreciated, because I have NEVER done something like this before.

Wazzles said:

Leonardo said:

Hello and welcome! You're in the right place. Nice username.

I've heard of some people pirating these, but I really don't want to steal something that has had so much time and love put into it. So...what do I do?

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. You mean you want to watch the Despecialized but you don't wanna "pirate" it? 

 I'm pretty sure he means just getting these in the most legal way possible. Harmy's recommendation is to purchase the Blu Rays (and maybe the official DVDs, but I'm not sure). That way you own the bulk of the sources that he used that are available. After that, you can torrent these. If you Google well enough, you can find the torrents very easily.

This is what I meant, but I heard that since that this was classified as a fan-edit, putting it up for sale in exchange for money was illegal. And I watched a video on YouTube explaining how to do this (via MySpleen.org, but the explanation doesn't seem feasible anymore) - and the guy said that pirating it would also be illegal. Honestly, I've never done this sort of thing before, so I don't really have a freaking clue what I'm doing.

Oh, and is there a version available for DVD if I were to burn it to a disc? Unfortunately we don't own a Blu-Ray player and I haven't been able to convince my family to get one thus far.

Hey. So, I'm kind of a Star Wars newbie. I first watched the original trilogy in May and loved them. (Had more mixed feelings about the prequels but whatever) But it occurred to me that some of the special effects were really out of place (ANH in particular), I found out that Han should have shot first, and I also thought that that weird as heck song in ROTJ was CLEARLY not the original, and obvously Hayden Christensen shouldn't have been the Force ghost at the end. When I found out that George Lucas had made all these somewhat unnecessary changes, I was... perplexed, to say the least.

I REALLY want to see the original cuts of these films. I found out that there IS a DVD you can buy, a limited edition from around the mid 00's, that has the original versions. But apparently the quality on them is absolutely abysmal.

BUT! Then I heard about these Despecialised Editions! And I got so excited! But I have no idea how to get them. I know it's a download and it involves burning some discs. But how, exactly? I don't know the first thing about burning things onto discs.

I've heard of some people pirating these, but I really don't want to steal something that has had so much time and love put into it. So...what do I do?

Oh, and is this disc-burning thing just for Blu-Ray? Or could it be played on DVD? I don't have a Blu-Ray player.