doubleofive

If I ever complete my A New Hope Revisited ReVHSed, I'd love to get access to your template or just permission to modify your finished cover, as this is exactly what I was going to go for as the basis of the cover.

Adywan has his own ideas and is best when left to them. Not like the collaboration team couldn't use some of his ideas or vice versa!

The third party throws his hat into the ring.

Yes, everything is gone, the DVD-9 is as high quality as it can go currently, so it must be remade from scratch. Now that we have an HD source (Adywan only got the broadcast HD at the tail end of production on ANHR), it will be made in 720p from start to finish. I can't wait to see what Ady does with his new skills.

nightstalkerpoet said:

Does anyone know if Adywan still has his original working files for this?

I'm curious, because ANH:R looks better than the original DVD, yet has been reencoded and still (very slightly) suffers from the compression limitations of MPEG 2.

I know previously I'd asked about an upconverted release (which Ady pointed out would be pointless).

With that in mind, I was wondering if a 480p AVCHD release could be made, using H.264 for much better compression, or perhaps even a BluRay release using lossless H.264?

Mike O said:

I was under the impression that The Hobbit wasn't going to be 3-D.

twister111 said:

(I know you're talking about me)
'Kay I can't change things to be better if no one criticizes what I put on my twitter. In short first complaint is you! So go ahead constructively criticize what I should do to make it better.

zalarcon said:

It gets to the point when you have to ask:  "How much change is enough?"    If he change the movies too much, these movie would start to look very different from the original ones. That is when change can be a bad thing.  I hope to read other interesting posts here at http://www.originaltrilogy.com 

TV's Frink said:

doubleofive said:
EDIT: Yes, we were fighting for who would update you all first. Well, no one can out Twitter me!

twister?

This may be why despecialization has never been attempted before: who's colors are truest? ;-)

And should we be fixing the lightsaber colors when they've pretty much always been inconsistent?

Bester said:

It's just an easy way to resell the series - "Come and watch/buy this! It's got loads of new stuff you haven't seen before!"

It's a proven technique.

TV's Frink said:

I'm semi-interested...

I hate myself.

If you are stuck in a room with a pregnant woman, no matter how far along she is, she will go into labor.

UPDATE:

From Adywan:

Ok guys, i've been quiet lately due to the fact that my internet sucks. had little or no connection for days now and i'm having to use a pre-pay mobile internet dongle, which give you no internet time at all. I'm down to my last 30p credit on it and i refuse to pay for any more, especially when i'm already paying for net use with my ISP. Doesn't look like the problem is going to get fixed any time soon either(crappy TalkTalk). when i do get a landline connection it has been 32kbit/s, which is slower than bloody dial up.

TV's Frink said:

http://www.touchofdeathforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=77282.0

It looks like I'll have to make my own covers. I'll post them when I'm done.

TV's Frink said:

doubleofive said:
Jambe and I are planning a commentary for the Blu-rays. Unfortunately since I don't have ANH, we might have to start with Empire, which wouldn't be strange for Jambe...

Neat!  Sign me up...

Wait, how do you not have ANH?

Ziggy Stardust said:

This is a very different choice for a Criterion release, but I'm all for it.

Jambe and I are planning a commentary for the Blu-rays. Unfortunately since I don't have ANH, we might have to start with Empire, which wouldn't be strange for Jambe...

Sluggo said:

I'm only watching it if it has Chewie's family avoiding Imperial troops while preparing for some type of wookiee holiday.

Who?

I'm actually hoping Ady uses Harmy as a source for RotJR, would save so much time...

Please don't tie it into your Twitter like someone else. My feed is overcome by certain people here, and I just don't get it. ;-)

I got 5 and 6 on Blu from a going-out-of-business Blockbuster, so now that I have ESF's covers for the Harmys, I need individual covers for the 2011 SE's. The problem is that I like too many of the covers here. They are way too good for these editions. I'm asking Video Collector for his leatherized template, then I'm going to modify them for individual use.

For example, I love that ESF's covers use the original titles on the spine with no super-titles or episode numbers. So I'll probably have the episode number on the spine, similar to the DVDs and have "2011 Special Edition" under the title of the movie, keeping the big "STAR WARS" at the top. As for the front and back, I'll probably leave them pretty simple, unless I go all out and have some art for the front and some of my Visual Comparisons on the back...

Anchorhead said:

To this day, I've not seen any of the sequels, nor will I ever.