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#666382
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Star Wars Holiday Special - WHIO 1st Gen VHS Preservation (Released)
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Video Collector said:



digitalfreaknyc said:

Is this the same source (before he sold it)?
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oicjDieAyJs" target="_blank" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=oicjDieAyJs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oicjDieAyJs</a>

Also, in an effort to not derail this thread, is there another to discuss VHS decks?


Looks to be from the same broadcast, but the WHIO has better colour and less distorted sound. The YouTube clip is definitely a generation or two further away from the one Tasjo has provided us with.


Well, of course it's the same broadcast. There was only one. :)

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#665580
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Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released)
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guiser said:



Does anyone believe that Disney would do a better or more complete job than what was accomplished here?  Sorry, but I don't see it no matter who is or isn't involved with this franchise at this point.

I will grant that they probably have access to more resources, better source media and all that, but look at all the garbage HD releases out there that claim to be the cats pajamas.  Far too many if you ask me.

More thanks that I have go to Harmy for saving this piece of cinematic history.


Sorry but this was a pretty dumb question.

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#665578
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Making of Return of the Jedi (the book) Thread
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From NYCC:

Rinzler will be releasing eBook versions of his "Making Of..." trilogy of books next week. Each eBook will contain, in addition to the entire text of the hardcopy books, up to 30 minutes of video and up to 30 minutes of audio. The audios and videos will be extremely rare behind the scenes looks at the 3 films. Some of the audio is expected to be very interesting (1 example was a discussion on the set between Lucas and Sir Alec Guinness regarding the proper way to deliver the famous "May the force be with you." line).

2 of the videos that will be included with the eBooks were shown:

1 ) Speederbike chase test footage shot using modified Kenner 12" figures on hand-built Speederbikes (different design from final film) doing basically the whole sequence from the film (with some differences in dialogue and shots/events). All of the characters' voices were provided by Ben Burrit. The miniature forest used for the sequence contained scenery created for the miniature VFX shots for "E.T." which ILM was still working on at the time.

2 ) Rebel briefing scene where Lando announces to Han that that he's a general. Lots of improvised banter between Ford and Williams before they go through the actual dialogue from the script.

An additional video was shown from the filming of the scene where Luke surrenders himself to Vader on Endor. The video features the voice of Marquand both directing the actors and providing Vader's dialogue. This video was really funny, not only for hearing Marquand speaking Vader's lines in his own voice, but for Marquand's stage directions ("Annnnnd...ZING!" when Luke tries to reach Vader's "good side"). Sadly, this video will not be included in the eBook and was going back into the vault after the panel.

http://www.imperialshipyards.net/SMF/index.php?topic=8829.msg166124#msg166124

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#665272
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Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released)
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Popocatapetl said:


I created a working Blu-Ray from the MKV using tsMuxeR. It just remuxes all the streams and creates the Blu-Ray file structure.

<span style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.2em;">If you can live without a custom menu, this is a great solution.</span>


I always use MultiAVCHD but would love something a little more user-friendly.

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#664185
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Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released)
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waspattck said:


The space limit on a single-layer BD is somewhere around 23.5 GB. 17.9 as-is without any extras is fast approaching that.

I suppose you could start dropping selected audio (particularly lossless audio) to create more space, then of course the revised menus.

There wouldn't be any layer break on a BD-25, of course so no worries there. Even if there were, the software would handle that seamlessly.


Hell no. Don't drop the lossless audio. Drop the various languages. Those matter MUCH less.

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#662483
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Help: looking for... 'Superman 2: International Cut' (remastered)?
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Tack said:


I actually have an NTSC dvd, and none of the added footage has the PAL speedup. They authored two different versions, so there's some out there PAL and some NTSC. But they were sourced from PAL tapes, according to the special features.


Then I should try and find a PAL version. It would be easier to slow down.

The problem is that the NTSC versions were never slowed down.

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#662474
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Star Trek Into Darkness Bonus disc (Released)
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BillyBoy said:


 

I only took one class in DVD authoring (and that was for regular DVDs, not blu rays), so I'm confused how all of this works for copying blu-ray files. When you assemble the disc, it is going to have all the features together in HD, and end up something like a 50GB download?  If so, I would prefer just a regular (4.35GB or 8GB) standard definition ISO that I can burn to a regular DVD disc. It should be pretty easy to export the HD files and render them out as much smaller, SD mp4 files, right?

 

I finally got around to buying a blu-ray player for Christmas, but I don't have a blu-ray burner, and I like to have a backup copy of everything on DVD so I can take the disc with me and play it for friends (my blu-ray player is stuck at home in my living room). Plus it's far quicker to and easier to download something under 10GB to my computer.

 

Is it possible to create both a HD version and SD version of the same disc?

 


You'd have to get that from someone else. I'm not making an SD version.