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Originally posted by: Darth_Evil
I did. I went with a group of friends, and there were 6 of us. Not only that, the adress of the street was 600. And to add to it all, the movie was in Auditorium 6. I'm not making that up. That's so many 6's, it freaked me out more than the movie. \

Anyone else see it on 6/6/6? Did anyone else have any freaky coincedence's with 6's?

Originally posted by: TheCassidy
This has come up here before, and I have no desire to rehash or start a flame war, but suffice to say I want an unaltered version of 'Raiders' with warts and all. If this doesn't fall under the purvue of this site, than so be it. I saw no harm in asking if anyone had this, or had seen it. Yes, but the question is then, is the HDTV version actually the "un-tweaked" version? Where the blue screen effects still look dated and such I know what you mean - but I think you're crossing a line if you're just talking about a version that's no different to the retail disc except that it's higher quality... I mean come on... all I'm saying is that I was quite shocked in seeing this post... it just about made my skin crawl. The last (SD) TV version that I saw was the tweaked version. I can kind of understand where you're coming from if you're genuinely wanting to preserve the movie before it's "tweaks" for DVD ... but it sounded like you were just trying to rip off the movie and get yourself a hi-res version, see:

"Apparently Raiders aired once on Paramount's HDTV channel, and, as the screen grab below attests to, it looks stunning and well above the resolution of the standard DVD release.

Does anyone have this? Supposedly it was floating around on Usenet."

I mean to me yes it's a bit like colourizing a B&W film to have those "tweaks" in it (isn't that the quote that used to be on the front page of this site?). I guess what I'm thinking, is that I don't want to start a war - and although I know the indy movies have some minor tweaks in it, i don't feel it's as bad as star wars... that is to say that if Lucas released the "OOT" without the orange blob under Luke's speeder like he did indy without the plexiglass reflection... well i wouldn't be happy about it, but I'd be happier then if he never released the OOT. I really don't know why they felt they should make digital cosmetic changes to Indy, but as a result it's a release I won't be purchasing. But as I said, last time I saw indy on telle it was the digitally altered version... I could tell after indy jumps out of the plane and they're on the raft - it used to be an obvious blue-screen effect, now it's been "fixed".Originally posted by: zombie84
Considering the title is not available for retail in HD I'd say this falls into the same category as fan-preservation.

Originally posted by: calamari
Of course. This should be covered by the partial frame re-encoding feature I hope to include. I did some reading on the subject, and this technique is mentioned on the doom9 boards, with a hardware device given as an example that it can be done (it put studio logos/overlays on digital footage, etc). It is very encouraging to me that someone has been able to pull this off. I wasn't sure it was even possible.

Originally posted by: Harlock415
Dude, pass the pipe, let me get some of that shit.

Cuz there ain't no way I can endorse this unless I was drunk, high out of my mind, and tortured.

Originally posted by: TheCassidy
Well, it started as a request to see if anyone had a copy of it. Deal.

Originally posted by: TR47
As cool as this is, and as much as I'd like to have a DVD version of it, why is this even allowed? I don't understand why a higher res version of a widely available commercial release is ok, and an original cut of an asian film that is difficult to obtain is not?

Originally posted by: JeremyM
Ah, thanks for that last part. I've been deciding whether to upgrade from my bootlegs when these come out, and I assumed there wouldn't be a quality difference so I didn't know if I should. But if they're at least somewhat better I might consider it it. I guess I'll have to see some comparisons when these come out.

The thought of the original crawl being spliced in crossed my mind, but I'm still just not sure why they would do that and not restore the rest of the film somewhat. I remember seeing "Empire of Dreams" in edited form on television (I never bought the 2004 set), and both the opening crawl and other OT footage (like Sebastion Shaw as Anakin at the end of ROTJ) looked like it had actually been restored somewhat, though I'm not %100 sure. And the ewok song from ROTJ also looked restored on the "Rebel Strike" video game that came out in 2003. Clearly they can at least give the footage some upgrading so I'm not sure why they would put the laserdisc versions on this release.

But again, thanks. That does make some sense at least.

Originally posted by: Falle
ALL COVERS HAVE BEEN CORRECTED!!!

www.thomas-anders.dk/fp I love your new set... how come you don't want your work shared?Originally posted by: MoveAlong
Does anyone here have this logo in vector format? TIA.

Originally posted by: The Starkiller

I've done a few Star Wars covers. I haven't got around to Empire or Jedi yet.

Originally posted by: boba feta
Perhaps its the degradation factor, perhaps its the possibility of breaks, snags and stretches, perhaps its just the inconvenience of having to rewind your tapes, the relative ease of duplication, the lower price and ease of digital distribution afforded the DVD all probably play a factor.

Originally posted by: chuck88
The covers look great, but as somebody mentioned before, you misspelled Emperor on all of them (you wrote Emporer). I know it's a minor issue, but any chance you could fix it and repost the sets?

Originally posted by: Gorram
Well, the HD-DVD titles I have look a *lot* better than DVD, massively better in fact, (except one title which isn't great) the sound however is a massive improvement over DVD, it really is mindblowing.

30GB allows for an extremely high quality 1080 picture.

If it doesn't look much better than DVD, perhaps you need to recalibrate your display device, or perhaps you have something that isn't capable of displaying HD-DVD the way it should look.

Originally posted by: Karyudo
Why change anything? Europeans drive on the same side as North Americans. Eep, I stand corrected. Although Wikipedia suggests driving on the left is safer.

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New Zealand
Even though New Zealand drives on the left, drivers must give way to traffic coming from their right at intersections. Thus, the give way rules have more in common with those of countries that drive on the right than of other countries that drive on the left.

Originally posted by: Doctor M
Also your films being 4% faster are paced differently than the director intended.

Originally posted by: pupil
Essentially, Blu-ray has the ability to display video at either 24/50/60Hz, like Film or PAL/NTSC TV signals, so depending at what frame rate the footage was filmed/produced it can be put onto Blu-Ray disc at whatever speed it needs to be in, either 24/25/30fps. I'm hoping that over time, especially as the whole HD thing is adopted en masse, we will see a universal frame rate accepted. The whole resolution thing is not an issue anymore as everything will be at 1920×1080 (for 1080 naturally).

Originally posted by: Darth Richard
With all this PAL NTSC talk made me think. they need to merge or something. Cuz NTSC obviously is the worse of the two. It wo0uld be nice if there could be a universal one that use the frame rate that is was shot in but with PAL resolution. Or something like that but anyways