chyron8472

I don't think you understand.

MySpleen is a private torrent tracker (meaning you must be invited to set up an account and the .torrents it lists are permanently blocked from using any other peer discovery methods outside of the MySpleen tracker itself.)

Suffice it to say, what you should do (after having bought official copies of the Original Trilogy) is:

- get an invite to Myspleen and create an account,

- search MySpleen for "Harmy"

- download the v2.5 AVCHD of Star Wars, the v2.0 AVCHD of ESB, and the v1.0 AVCHD of ROTJ (as those are the lastest respective versions of each)

- buy blank Memorex DVD9's (or DVD-DL's)

- burn each AVCHD to a DVD.

- Enjoy watching them on your Bluray player.

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You will likely not (and hopefully not) find anyone here who will sell copies of the Despecialized Edition to you. For one thing, to profit from this project is illegal. So, either they will give a copy to you entirely for free out of their own expense or else they will help you to do it yourself.

Most likely the latter. Not because we're jerks. But because I would imagine if anyone wanted to give out a copy, they'd want to do it properly and also include DVD or Bluray cases and labels both in the cases and on the discs.

I've always said that the mark of a good fan edit (or preservation/restoration in this case) is that it doesn't look fan made. Giving you a burned disc with Sharpie written on it in a cheap case with a post-it on it would seem to be half-assing it and I don't see the people here doing that for a project as wonderful and as important as this is.

brimforge said:

I think Disney will release the BIG one when Fox gives them back the rights to ANH

Meaning "never"?

I meant that I googled that shot to give a visual reference of what shot I meant. I  didn't  specifically Google the DEED. 

The one thing in v1 that stuck out the most to me as a concern was this shot:

There is jitter between the sarlacc's mouth and and the outer portion of the shot.

EDIT: Nevermind that the corners of the frame on this screenshot are curved. I just googled to find this image, as I am at work and don't have the film on hand to screenie it myself.

Yes, because using 50 GB of HDD space for a single film among the many one has in one's library is totally normal and not at all a waste of space for most people. Not to mention the amount of local bandwidth it would use to stream such a film between an AppleTV and iTunes.

I prefer Media Player Classic over VLC because MPC can hide various parts of its interface at the press of a single button, it's able to easily hide any letterboxing (ie. black bars), and the player borders can snap to the video frame edges if you want. If you have any codec issues, just download the Combined Community Codec Pack.

VLC's only benefits over MPC, for my use, are that it has the necessary codecs already self-contained, so it makes for a very good /portable/ player; and its codec output info page, for such as finding the aspect ratio or bitrate, is easier to find and is laid out better.

anathema said

he was certain that the subtitles for the scene between Jabba and Boushh had been altered at some point

In a nutshell, he recalls one of the subtitles containing a four-letter word.

 The conversation with Boushh wasn't subtitled. 3PO was translating.

If you're referring to the conversation with Han just after he thawed, then no, it always said "Bantha fodder" in the subtitles.  EDIT: Scratch that. Yes, there were subtitles. I'm an idiot. :/ But I don't know what else would have been substituted from Jabba's dialogue.

Zer0Squared said:

Hans Blaster said:

Like many others, I registered just to say thank you to Harmy and the rest of the Original Trilogy users contributing to this effort. Just finished watching ESB v2.0 and I will join the chorus declaring it amazing! As someone who grew up on the original cuts of these films, it is truly heartwarming to see them properly restored to their original state. Thank you for that!

I did have a question thought - still trying to get my hands on Star Wars v2.5. 1.0 looks great, but would love to see the latest version. Is there a torrent available somewhere?

 Go to TPB and do a search for 'despecialized'

 Get a Myspleen invite.

EDIT: I PM'd you with one.

StarThoughts said:

The Despecialized restorations are at 720p because that is what the Blu-ray transfers practically resolve to.

 [whiney_voice]Aww, but I wanted Harmy to release it in 4K!!!!![/whiney_voice]

Matt_Stevens said:

I'm assuming I can just make my own DVD5 from the AVCHD or MKV. I have DVDfab so that might do. I don't do much with DVD anymore. I mean... DVD? Really? But so many people I know have no desire to go up. They are all streaming pukey Netflix.

 To be frank though, you can very likely find a good bluray player at a nearby store for 50 bucks, and DVD movies are becoming harder and harder to find.

Not upgrading to Bluray by now seems a bit silly considering the low price point for basic, non-smart models; plus the fact that if one were to ask for a movie for birthday or Christmas, they would very likely receive it on Bluray (as happened to me a couple of years ago, prompting my eBay purchase of a PS3 slim).

yoda-sama said:

Since it is usually wise to do the opposite of what Nearsighted Scrappile says, I think Harmy should go into hiding.

 Watch out for space slugs.

adywan said:

No more changes or enhancements will be made apart from what is left to do.

 If I may ask, what is that exactly?

Wow, I've been away too long. I didn't know ESBDE 2.0 was finished.

Downloading now.

[snip] wrong thread.

The original version of the film ought to be considered as the version that was first theatrically released. That means, in this case, that there are 3 original audio mixes. Neither one is more original than the other.

Do you have the AVCHD version?

Thanks for fixing those lights. They look fantastic now.

Also, I think the honorable mention credits should be sorted in order of the number of posts each person has made in this thread, and where that number is equal, they should then be sorted by the distance each person lives from Harmy.  :P

(I'm kidding. I'm neither serious nor do I mean offense.)

I'm not sure where to get the WIP...

can someone tell me that this is fixed?:

originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/post/626383/

chyron8472 said:

If you're going to go back and fix ESB:DE,  the one thing I notice most that could be fixed is the saturation level of the red lights.

 

I don't currently have the WP. And not that I actually care about a couple of pixels, but can someone post a screenshot of exactly what everyone is complaining about?

Really the biggest issue I had with v1.0 is the bleeding/crushed reds from light sources.

I'm late to this discussion. Rounded corners on what?

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/post/696316

chyron8472 said:

I'm finished with my OT covers.

I updated the back cover of "Star Wars" (aka. "A New Hope") to have a paragraph break where the original version was missing one.

Also, the ROTJ cover is done, with Yoda and Chewie on the back. I could have put Vader, but then he'd be the only bad guy; and really Chewie does play a big role in the Trilogy (especially by providing the key turning point of the ground campaign at the Battle of Endor). Albeit, his character is usually overshadowed by Han.

I'm going to include .psd versions of the files for anyone who wants to make personal edits (such as adding "Episode IV" and "A New Hope" to the Star Wars cover and "V"/"VI" to the ESB/ROTJ spines, or else changing the Harmy credit to Adywan or something.)

There /are/ roman numerals on the spines and other such things like that in the PSDs, but their layers are just hidden in favor of the covers being used for Harmy's edition.

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Star Wars (download: PNG -- PSD):

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The Empire Strikes Back (download: PNG -- PSD):

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Return of the Jedi (download: PNG -- PSD):

 

I'm finished with my OT covers.

I updated the back cover of "Star Wars" (aka. "A New Hope") to have a paragraph break where the original version was missing one.

Also, the ROTJ cover is done, with Yoda and Chewie on the back. I could have put Vader, but then he'd be the only bad guy; and really Chewie does play a big role in the Trilogy (especially by providing the key turning point of the ground campaign at the Battle of Endor). Albeit, his character is usually overshadowed by Han.

I'm going to include .psd versions of the files for anyone who wants to make personal edits (such as adding "Episode IV" and "A New Hope" to the Star Wars cover and "V"/"VI" to the ESB/ROTJ spines, or else changing the Harmy credit to Adywan or something.)

There /are/ roman numerals on the spines and other such things like that in the PSDs, but their layers are just hidden in favor of the covers being used for Harmy's edition.A

Also, for anyone who cares (and for myself for future reference) the font used for my crawl is called "Franklin Gothic Medium Condensed" and the font for the text on the spine is called "Trajan Pro".

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Star Wars (download: PNG -- PSD):

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The Empire Strikes Back (download: PNG -- PSD):

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Return of the Jedi (download: PNG -- PSD):

*sigh.* Well, I have an iPad 1. I hate the damn thing, as well I hate iTunes, but if it will help you guys to break the DRM on what you feel to be the superior version of the Making of Star Wars ebook, then I will buy it and try to break it for you. Too bad we aren't using the Kindle version, because I could fix that in nothing flat.

AntcuFaalb said:

digitalfreaknyc said:

[quote=nderthexenocide]

UPDATE: Nevermind, just downloaded an iBook sample and the iBook is CLEARLY better and higher resolution.  Some photos in the Kindle edition are pixelated, and crystal clear on the iBook.  Kind of miffed that the difference wasn't advertised, however, can't complain to be paying $12.99 twice for this collection of amazing content.

Ugh. Is there any way to download the iBook version and use it on my kindle?

 

Unfortunately, no. Nobody has broken the DRM yet. It's a bear.

 

Are you sure?

Wouldn't this help?:

http://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/2012/09/09/

I have plenty of books on my Kindle, and I edit the metadata and formatting on nearly all of them to my liking with Calibre. This, of course, requires me to break the DRM on them in order to do so. I've never had need to break DRM on an iBook file before, but if it can be done, you can bet Alf's blog will give you the low down on it.

re: the Star Wars vs. A New Hope discussion, I often refer to it as "the original Star Wars" or else if I say "Star Wars" and they say "which one?" I say "original".

It's less confusing to say "original" than to say "first."