electrictroy

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Join date: 4-May-2005
Last activity: 24-Jul-2005
Posts: 54

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Post: #103951
Topic: How is a Star Wars laserdisc ripped?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/103951/action/topic#103951
Time: 4-May-2005 9:49 AM

I assume it involves running the LD's composite output through a COMB filter, to separate the elements into component video, and then feeding it into a computer for analog-to-digital conversion?

Or is it more complicated than that?

Troy Heagy
Electrical Engineer

Post: #103851
Topic: Got the LD rips - Now How Do I Make Them Work?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/103851/action/topic#103851
Time: 4-May-2005 9:45 AM

I have no idea what to do with these *.bup, *.nfo, and other confusing files.

Why can't these LD rippers just use normal MPEG4/avi files that I can view with DivX Player?

(extremely frustrated at having wasted several days downloading files he can't make work)
Troy Heagy
Electrical Engineer

Post: #103944
Topic: I like the Special Editions ..... minus some scenes
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/103944/action/topic#103944
Time: 4-May-2005 9:16 AM

Quote
Originally posted by: Darth Simonharrison ford stepping on Jabba's tail was never supposed to be in the movie from the start.

Nit-picky much? Okay, not "stepping", but Ford WAS talking to Jabba. The original plan was to use a Puppet of Jabba, but it didn't look right, so Lucas dropped the scene. NOT because he didn't like the scene, but because he was limited by technology.

I'm glad he used modern technology to finally do that Ford-Jabba scene, the way he originally wanted.

Also, what do you mean the original didn't need fixing? I already pointed out the black matting squares around all the ships. Even in the 1980s when I was a kid, I thought that looked dumb. That's at least ONE thing that needed to be fixed.

troy

Post: #103857
Topic: I like the Special Editions ..... minus some scenes
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/103857/action/topic#103857
Time: 4-May-2005 4:31 AM

I like the added footage of Harrison Ford stepping on Jabba's tail (which was supposed to be there from the start, but was not doable with 1977 technology). I like the crystal clarity of the new CGI ships (which look better than models with black matting squares around them). I like the new ending showing Emperor Palpatine's statue being toppled (which shows the galactic scale of this war).

Overall, the "fixed" version is better than the original (just as Dicken's "director's cut" of Tale of Two Cities is better than the original newspaper version).

.....

What I *don't* like:
- the new Jedi scene with "Zoot Snooty" or whatever singing that stupid song..... it detracts from the somber & serious mood
- the missing "Yub-Yub" song at the end

If Lucas would get off his "I'm a god" pedestal, listen to the fans, admit that those scenes were a mistake, and delete them from the Trilogy, I'd be perfectly happy with the SE.

troy