This is great news. Downloading now.;) I have been wanting to compare these to captures that I have made using the GOUT DVD's scaled to 1080i from a DVDO Edge and captured to a Hauppauge HD-PVR using a HDMI to component convertor.
That is great news OmegaMattman. I look forward to checking these out. Should be awesome.;)
Looks just about perfect OmegaMattman.;) I wouldn't change a thing and I can't believe this originated from the GOUT DVD.
Great news dark_jedi! Your Blu-rays are the ones I am most excited about. From the samples that I have seen they are going to look amazing and well worth the wait.;)
PM please sir.;) Thanks.
I like the middle image best. It has a slight edge in detail and the color looks more natural verses the other two. The first and third images color is too saturated IMO.
This is fantastic news Adywan. Can't wait to check it out. Thanks for getting the fix out there for everyone to enjoy.
-dlbsyst
Im sorry.( I was trying to post the info for Wookie Groomer's Sith release but having problems with it showing properly.
Wow. That Sucks. Who is your isp?
Sounds like you are having the same problems I was having when I had Giganews. I switched to Astraweb recently and all is well. Good luck.
Wookie Groomer,
I just watched your "Battle of Heroes" video and I can sum up my feelings in one word. AMAZING!!
Great job. I'm looking forward to your prequal releases. They should be spectacular.
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WOOKIE GROOMER PRESENTS
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith
HIGH DEFINITION 1080p
"Battle Of Heroes" video
Forthcoming Bluray teaser
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General Information
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Release Date : September 2009
Source : 1080p German Premier HDTV Cap
Frame Rate : 23.976 fps
Video : H.264 1920x1080 VBR 2-pass @ 25MbpsMin / 35MbpsMax
Audio : English AC3 5.1
Length : 3m 40s
Size : 669MB
Here is a teaser sample of the completed "Revenge Of The Sith" Bluray disk. The sample is a complete video mixed to the thematic John Williams score "Battle Of Heroes" on the "Revenge of the Sith" motion picture soundtrack. The video is encoded with the same bitrate as the yet to be released Bluray and represents the visual quality to be expected. I spent several evenings putting this one together so please enjoy it! This and other 1080p prequal videos are planned for the "The Phantom Menace Deluxe Edition" Bluray that is scheduled for release in the near future.
If you missed them, please check out my original trilogy Bluray disks by searching the newsgroups for the following nzb files:
Wookie.Groomer.Star.Wars.Episode.IV.A.New.Hope.2009.Bluray.Edition.1080p.nzb
Wookie.Groomer.Star.Wars.Episode.V.The.Empire.Strikes.Back.2009.Bluray.Edition.1080p.nzb
Wookie.Groomer.Star.Wars.Episode.VI.Return.of.the.Jedi.2009.Bluray.Edition.1080p.nzb
wookiegroomer@hushmail.com
budwhite said:yeah I saw that now, I'm pretty new to newsgroups.
It's cool. Looks like the upload is about half way done. Should be very nice.
Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:budwhite said:1gb?
The DVD is nearly full - about 4.5 gb. Not sure what was just put up, I don't have anything to do with that.
Uh, the DVD is still uploading. It is not 1gb.
Wookie Groomer said:People are complaining about Giganews and their crappy corrupted files problem on other forums. It's not just Jedi, try a different newshost. I use Astraweb and rarely ever have issues like Giganews people.
Thanks Wookie Groomer. I just signed up with Astraweb. I am re-dowloading some of the files that were corrupted via Giganews. I hope this fixes my problem. As for Giganews, I have been with them for 3 years and until recently I haven't had any problems with corrupted data. In any event Astraweb is 10 dollars a month cheaper than Giganews with the same retention so I will be dropping Giganews.
I am getting a lot of corrupted data with the Jedi Proper. After downloading the file quickpar shows 7 missing files and 30 damaged files. With all of this missing data the par files arent't enough to reconstruct the file. My news server is Giganews and I use Grabit to get the data. Any idea guys? As it stands now I will need a lot more par files to fix the data.
pnag said:I'll have ROTJ by Monday? Would have it sooner but my news server's lost more than the PARs can reconstruct, but I'll get there.
Just want to mention, I'm absolutely *delighted* with Empire - seriously, WookieG, you've outdone yourself. I know you get pissed at us from time to time, and I also know what it's like to work in a thankless job, so just wanted to say a big THANK YOU!
Agreed. I just got through burning to a BD-50 RE his new proper Empire Blu-ray. In a word WOW. This is were it is at guys. The picture to my eyes is simply marvelous, but what really blew me away was the dolby digital audio track. It sounds spacous and dynamic with channel seperation that I don't remember the dvd that it was sourced from having. Way to go Wookie Groomer. Thank you so very much for sharing your work with me. Jedi proper here I come!
FazZ said:Ref: Star Wars - A New Hope - PROPER REISSUE
Anyone else have a playback fault at 00:07:41 when Laya meets Vader for the first time? Seems to be missing a chunk in the film and jumps to 00:08:55 to R2 & C3's scene in the desert.
I've tried playing it through 'Total Media Theatre' and my favorite 'HT MPC' but both have the exact same results.
Anyone else? [-_-]
I haven't gotten it yet. I will check and post when I get it.
BD-D2 said:dlbsyst said:BD-D2 said:Dear Wookiegroomer,
I've tried to D/L the latest ESB Proper Reissue but I'm coming up 79 blocks short. Tried to complete using both alt.binaries.starwars and alt.binaries.blu-ray.
Any chance of posting more PAR files?
Wookie Groomer doesn't post here anymore it would seem. Maybe I can help. With the 4 or 5 broken parts, I was able to repair the file with the existing pars. Make sure you got all the parts downloaded and also maybe you should try re-downloading the parts that are damaged. Hope this helps.
Finally managed to acquire the needed PAR files. Thanks anyway though. :-)
I'm glad you were able to get it sorted out.
BD-D2 said:Dear Wookiegroomer,
I've tried to D/L the latest ESB Proper Reissue but I'm coming up 79 blocks short. Tried to complete using both alt.binaries.starwars and alt.binaries.blu-ray.
Any chance of posting more PAR files?
Wookie Groomer doesn't post here anymore it would seem. Maybe I can help. With the 4 or 5 broken parts, I was able to repair the file with the existing pars. Make sure you got all the parts downloaded and also maybe you should try re-downloading the parts that are damaged. Hope this helps.
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WOOKIE GROOMER PRESENTS
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
HIGH DEFINITION
BD50 BLURAY FORMAT
2009 Minor Adjustments Edition
Han Shoots First / Restored Original Darth Vader voice
PROPER RE-ISSUE WITH CORRECTED AUTO SYNC
AS TESTED BY MEMBERS OF WWW.ABHDTV.NET AND MYSELF
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Release Date : July 2009 - Proper Re-Issue August 14, 2009
Source : 1080p Sky Broadcasting/1080p German Premier Caps Hybrid
Frame Rate : 23.976 fps
Video : 1920x1080p @ 35,000kbps H.264
Audio : English AC3 5.1EX
Audio : English DTS 5.1
Audio : Isolated Film Score DTS 5.1 @ 1509kbps
Audio : Isolated Film Score Uncompressed PCM Stereo
Audio : Audio Commentary -Untouched from Retail R1 DVD
Length : 124m
Like Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi, Lucas went back and made color adjustments to the Special Edition releases. With Empire he went blue and A New Hope he went Red. With A New Hope, the bland black and white universe dominated by the Empire had suddenly become more colorful. Some of the scenes were overly hot adding a reddish hue and laserblasts were now a hot pink?!. WTF... I tried to clean up some of those issues. I didn't want to get tied up in some sort or obsessed "restoration" because I am only a little crazy. I tried to "fix" the pink/magenta laser blasts with either red or white depending on what seemed closer to the frame on the original theatrical version. However, I didn't do a frame by frame adjustment through the entire movie so I know I missed a few. I wanted to take away the obviousness of them so watching the scenes with a lot of laser blasts you shouldn't really notice anything except the action on the screen- no pink pops. Again, this is NOT an extensive restoration and against popular belief these blurays are NOT "color corrections" I never said they were. They are simple adjustments here and there to my liking. In fact, I could probably spend months tweaking the colors and brightness and never truly be satisfied. No one knows for sure what "correct" even means and should never claim so. One other tweak worth mentioning is the Cantina scene, I had to lighten it up some. I thought it was way too dark in many scenes and had to give it some breathing room. Compared to the theatrical version it looks like it was shot completely in the dark when in fact it use to be well lit.
For this release I mainly dialed back on the overall red saturation trying to bring the color tone closer to what appeared natural to me like I did 3 years ago on the original release. I felt the majority of the feature looked pretty good and I did leave a lot of things "as is" because I liked the punch of color. Even though I had already visited the high def saga back in 2007 with several of these adjustments- this go around is my preferred versions because I went much deeper than before and never quit felt happy, not to mention Han does shoot Greedo first as I have always done. I never had access to H.264 encoding and my old obsolete version were compromised in almost every way. These things seem kind of trivial now since several have imitated this technique over the past couple years but up until now no one has actually threw the bits at it to fully enjoy it all on a real home theater system in a convenient "just hit play" format.
In the audio department I dug up an old laserdisc capture I had laying around and extracted the center channel dialog. I pulled out all of Darth Vaders dialog and plopped it into this release because I really liked how the old Vader sounded. I extracted the AC3 rf on an old capture card from a Pioneer DVL-909 Laserdisc/DVD combo player eons ago. I always hated the picture quality of the cap but the audio was bit perfect and sounded great. I also replaced the sound Obi-wan made when he first appeared on screen to scare away the Sandpeople with the original sound also from that cap. So basically, these blurays are still the new Special Editions with what should be minimal "transparent" tweaks. I debated on deleting the Jabba scene but Harrison Ford is in that scene and you can't delete Harrison Ford. Like the rest of this project I am the first to provide a full uncompressed isolated music score that sounds awesome and I will NEVER use mp3 files downloaded from the internet on my releases. For the record the isolated scores on all my releases are directly ripped bit perfect from the original outstanding Sony Classics remastered CD's of the trilogy and carefully edited to match the films score as close as what's reasonable. Even if you are a casual viewer you owe it to yourself to sit back and just listen to the fantastic scores that run through these films.
As a side note, you may notice an audio sync issue with the background sounds on the audio commentary. To re-edit the Han Shoots First scene several frames had to be removed. Since I plugged in the audio commentary as-is that edit will be apparent after the scene is over. I did not feel editing the audio commentary was warranted since it technically does not impact the feature itself. I also omitted all the foreign language tracks as they would have to be re-edited too in order to sync with the film and I did not need the extra headaches. New covers are provided will all these re-issues to accurately depict the actual contents of the disk.
Special thanks to the members at www.abhdtv.net for helping me and understanding the weight of this project.
wookiegroomer@hushmail.com
Guys,
Wookie Groomers Empire proper has finished uploading to the servers.) I should have it in about 5 hours and will post here my impressions later tonight. Also his "A New Hope" proper is currently going up.
dark_jedi said:So is WG's Star Wars Blu-ray fine? and now a PROPER REISSUE of ESB(Great to hear),and I wonder will he do a PROPER REISSUE of ROTJ?
Proper reissue's are forthcoming for Star Wars and Jedi according to Wookie Groomer. His Empire proper is still uploading to the servers. I will be getting it once its complete and post here my impressions. Wookie Groomer says it is perfect.)