Each OT movie has 3 entries on Prime Video: HD, HD with bonus features, and UHD. Only RotJ’s HD listing has this label. It’s weird as hell, but Amazon is weird as hell.
I grew up with the similarly sped up CED of Star Wars, and I recall it being subconsciously weird when I got the Faces set as a teenager.
This is pretty amusing given that you’re now the “The Originals must be The Originals!” guy.
You’re lucky I’m not going to push for “time compressed” as a required option on the official release!
I grew up with the similarly sped up CED of Star Wars, and I recall it being subconsciously weird when I got the Faces set as a teenager.
When you say “stripe”, do you mean “wipe”?
I love all of this and will add it to the description in the VisComp.
It says I need a decrypter key to download the file.
Between The Verge, Slate, and my article in WIRED, the word is out there.
Engadget posted an article today including DeEd and 4K77. The wheels are turning.
Between The Verge, Slate, and my article in WIRED, the word is out there.
Now I’m curious what’s in the prequel set and the bonus features set.
There’s pictures of the inside of the next tweet. The prequels are the Blu-rays of the movies and the bonus discs from their DVD releases. The Bonus Materials are the Blu-ray bonus discs and the bonus disc from the 04 trilogy DVD release.
I’ll check and add that!
I guess I should update this since it’s been… a decade?
This is just the Original Trilogy.
11SE Blu-rays (purchased used individually, some from a going-out-of-business Blockbuster Video)
ESB GOUT (used media store in 2018)
ANH GOUT (shrink-wrapped from a local grocery store in 2019)
The Digital Six Film Collection (Microsoft in 2019)
19SE UHDs (purchased individually last week)
ROTJ GOUT (eBay this week)
ANH GOUT (“fullscreen”, so I don’t have to open mine, eBay this week)I found a “Faces” VHS set somewhere in the last decade, I have that too.
I’m planning on using a friend’s custom cases to store each 19SE UHD, 11SE BD, 04SE DVD, GOUT, and the new bonus disc.
I’d like to see the custom cases once you’re finished with them.
Here you go! https://twitter.com/doubleofive/status/1248627547857960960?s=21
Do you know if Wired plan to include a version of the article in their print edition?
I believe the stuff I signed was just for online.
I guess I should update this since it’s been… a decade?
This is just the Original Trilogy.
My parents had:
Star Wars Videodisk CED (I grew up with a VHS copy of that)
Empire VHS (one of the first VHS tapes)
Jedi VHS (one of the first VHS tapes)I’ve had:
“Faces” Trilogy VHS in 1995
97SE Widescreen Trilogy VHS in 1997
Episode I Deluxe Widescreen VHS in 1999
Episode I DVD in 2001
Episode II DVD in 2002
04SE Widescreen Trilogy DVD in 2004
Episode III DVD in 2005
11SE Blu-rays (purchased used individually, some from a going-out-of-business Blockbuster Video)
ESB GOUT (used media store in 2018)
ANH GOUT (shrink-wrapped from a local grocery store in 2019)
The Digital Six Film Collection (Microsoft in 2019)
19SE UHDs (purchased individually last week)
ROTJ GOUT (eBay this week)
ANH GOUT (“fullscreen”, so I don’t have to open mine, eBay this week)
I found a “Faces” VHS set somewhere in the last decade, I have that too.
I’m planning on using a friend’s custom cases to store each 19SE UHD, 11SE BD, 04SE DVD, GOUT, and the new bonus disc.
cough Nine Years! cough
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Sources-on-the-Special-Edition/id/12849/page/1
Congrats on perseverance and continuously tweaking the presentation until you captured a more mainstream audience. George would be proud. (kidding!)Contact Kaminski and see if you can get the article added to https://savestarwars.com/
I sold it to WIRED, maybe he could add a link?
Excellent work. I also could not stop laughing at the CGI Yavin, it’s been a very long time since I watched that version and I never realised it either.
There are 30 tiny explosions in that GIF.
Thanks, Anchor!
Ady attempted this for ESBR, if I recall, it was too much work and didn’t look quite right. You can see it in the early trailers he made.
The scenes between Han and Leia should be more intimate. Just a thought.
How would one accomplish this?
The column appears to also be entirely gone in the tracking shot of R2 heading towards 3PO, which seems to confirm my 3D conversion theory. I added both shots of the CZ to my rough draft album and credited you, yotsuya!
It was WIRED’s idea to make it about Disney+ since that’s the big thing everyone is talking about. And it wouldn’t cost them printing and distribution. It’s as easy as uploading.
- Changed light area on wall behind CZ droid to shadow.
We didn’t notice this one, well done! How did you even see it?! I wonder if it was done during the 3D conversion so they wouldn’t have to worry about that weird piece of architecture going off at a weird angle.
- New Sky over Stormtroopers in the desert (1997 SE added scene) including a cloud
Not sure what you’re seeing here, the skies look identical to me.
Sorry if this has been asked, but are the included 1080p blu-ray versions from the new (maclunky) scan too, or did they just repurpose unsold blu-rays?
They’re Maclunkey.
Did I not say in the article that I was going to just go over the major additions? People keep pointing out I didn’t cover this or that. It’s not that I don’t have an opinion on Shaw’s eyebrows or Wicket blinking. I just had to stop going down the rabbit hole somewhere!
LOL, that’s amazing. What Hoffman thread?
1981 was after Empire came out… 😐
🤫 time is fluid.
LOL
https://www.wired.com/story/put-original-star-wars-on-disney-plus/
I finally published my history of the Special Edition, which actually breaks down every addition to the trilogy and how it actively harms the movie, and explains how both versions can live in peace.
I also reveal a mistake introduced in the SE that I’ve never seen pointed out before.
It’s quite a read, I hope you enjoy! A lot of you helped, in the end.