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#518545
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WIRED magazines "100 things your kids may never know about"
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xhonzi said:


We still use Zip discs at work.  Not that I'm proud of that.
Wow. We had some disks when I started here that I threw away because we didn't have any readers.

And freaking MiniDiscs. They had me buy those for my media classes, I thought they were awesome. Then I realized that the average MP3 player even then could hold more music and didn't require disk swaps. We did use them to record our radio shows, so theoretically I have a MiniDisc somewhere that has me hosting "Date Night with Drew" on our Bible College Radio Station.

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#518543
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Lucas to sue Star Wars designer
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Yeah, I'm not seeing this as a good thing either. I can't put my finger on it, but something about blurring the line between film designs and art doesn't sit right with me. Sure, the stormtrooper helmet design is a work of art, but its also immediately identified with a movie series which is under copyright. Does that mean that in the UK you can make a movie visually identical to an older movie, as long as you don't use any of the character names?

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#518541
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Lucas' Red Tails
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zombie84 said:



TV's Frink said:

Are any good movies ever released in January? I always thought it was a dumping ground.


 Is this on for a January release? That is really, really bad news. December is the Oscar-month, when studios push their best material out to be eligible for the Academy Awards a few months later, when the films will be freshest in voters minds. January is then the dumping season, when studios quietly get rid of all those embarassing films that they regret they made in the first place. Once in a while there is a good movie in January, of course. But usually a January release date means the studio has not much confidence in you.
But the studio is LFL. What does that mean!?

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#518504
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Red Tails
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Filthy Pierre said:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpA6TC0T_Lw

 

I'm hoping this movie will be fantastic. A world war 2 air movie without a love story watering it down.

If Lucas can pull this off all is forgiven for Episodes 1, 2 and 3 for me.

While I won't be liking the prequels anymore at least he'll be back in my good books. LOL
When the actors say things like "Lucas didn't like the tone, so he directed a lot of reshoots", I worry.

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#518439
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STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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Mithrandir said:


Well, considering Ady's prequels will be OTish, Adywan could put some elements of HIS prequels into ROTJ:R without betraying himself, couldn't he?

For instance, I read he's willing to replace the imperial shuttle in which Han flies to Endor with another shuttle. We know from the movie things like the shuttle calls the attention of the imperial officer by some reason, and that it has "an old security code" by the time of ROTJ.

Now suppose Ady finds, or designs, or inserts in PT:R some ship meant to be a Republic shuttle, then he could use it again in ROTJ:R as the old ship the rebels use to infiltrate...
Not a bad idea, but I've always thought the "older code" was like a week out of date, not years. It's not supposed to be a long lost freighter, it's supposed to be a supply ship that's a week late.

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#517991
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Star Wars coming to Blu Ray (UPDATE: August 30 2011, No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!)
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zombie84 said:


It's the 2004 telecine/transfer, but not the same master. It's a new master derived from the 2004 HD master. The difference is that they have increased the gamma to resolve some of the dimness issues of the 2004 release. Of course, this introduces its own set of problems.
Ah, but do we know of the enhanced gamma besides the pictures online, that the web designer may have brightened because of their darkness? That's my new question.

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#517986
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Star Wars coming to Blu Ray (UPDATE: August 30 2011, No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!)
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Adium said:


So I'm pretty sure it's confirmed, but I'd like to double check: we're looking at a 2004 DVD transfer, right? I want to change the title of the thread.

 

 

And I'm officially not buying this shit until it's in the bargain bin.
We believe its confirmed, but there are some among us who are still on a "wait and see" attitude, even after the ComicCon video has the color issues and Humdinger glitch.

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#517981
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Harmy's RETURN OF THE JEDI Despecialized Edition HD - V3.1
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Harmy said:


And me having to make another version could have been avoided if these things were already spotted in the workprint. I'd really like to avoid that situation with Jedi and I therefore decided, that I'm not gonna release ROTJ until somebody spots that glitch I already know about in the WP.
Is this an incentive to have them go through the movie frame-by-frame?

It'd be awesome if we found another Humdinger!