Ronster, it’s been a long time since I’ve encoded anything to DVD. But there is lots of freeware, you’ll probably know. Convertxtodvd I used to use. I watched the segments you uploaded, they were great. Personally I wouldn’t upscale. Perhaps leave it in the native quality and let people’s Tv’s do the upscaling. Many thanks for this great project.
The updated RIC of S1 on capedwonder is great. I’ve also seen the S2 RIC referred to in the previous post, again on capewonder. Although as it says there, it’s not been restored since 2005. Not being critical but when I saw it, the quality seemed VHS standard. I hope Booshman will soon be able to release his restored version of S2 RIC. It’s such a loved film for so many and there are scenes in that extended version that you don’t see in either the theatrical or Donner versions.
Does anyone know if there's a problem with the first zip file in the Pal SL Miami version and perhaps can upload a corrected link? All links downloaded properly but then extraction fails with the message the first file 001 is corrupt, CRC error (tried winrar and another prog to extract and file isn't reparable). Many thanks.
Harmy said:
Welcome crystal1 and thanks for saying that, it's nice to see that some people in the general audience are on our side :-)
Definitely. I'm also keen to view your new HD version of Jedi I saw mentioned on another thread, when it's out (ROTJ DeEd).
What a brilliant website. Just want to add my praise at what you've done and that it's not just hard core Star Wars fans who object that the originals aren't released in proper quality on DVD or at all on blu ray. I'm not a star wars fan as such but came across this site after looking at the blu rays and learning what they contained! Back when the last dvds came out, me and my friends (just general viewers) were highly unimpressed at the changes. Eg the change of Vader at the end of ROTJ and all the CGI. Equally disliked the prequels.
Having looked at this site I can well understand the fans being disaffected at having effectively put GL where he is, but not being given what you want and deserve. Well I think it's a common view shared by non fans too, if they saw the originals all those decades ago.
So far I've just checked out Adywans SW revisited and ESB 1997 recon I think it was. Very impressed and will seek to check out other versions including these from Dark_Jedi. Well done again. It's stimulated an interest in SW again....