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#570803
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Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released)
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I've already started a thread to discuss how useful dedicated hardware upscalers might be as another tool we could use.

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/GOUT-V3-and-DVDO-ISCAN-upscaler-processor/topic/14018/

Someone has said that they'll post some comparison clips. So if you have any thoughts/suggestions then feel free to head over to the thread.

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#570487
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Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released)
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I agree 720 is heaven. It seems to have worked out very well. Maybe things happen for a reason sometimes, if Harmy had tried to do it in 1080p the sd elements may not have been so seamless and he might have felt the need to carry on in 1080p anyway. I actually agree with the poster above who said all factors considered that 720p is the sweet spot for this.

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#570472
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Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released)
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As I've broken the psychological barrier to asking stupid questions for tonight, may I just ask one more then... Are all the changes you made 'stored' in a seperate 'execution stream' to the movie itself so that if you had a faster computer you could flip a switch and reapply the changes in a 1080p way? Or is it the case that it's more hardcoded now to 720p?

The reason of course I'm asking is if it's just a problem of a faster computer then there would be a queue of people donating whatever you needed.

I watched nearly all of your youtube clips and have fallen in love with the way you've done it (original colour timing).

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#570454
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Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released)
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I have a question which will no doubt drive people mad, as I'm sure it's been well answered. I did try searching for an answer before I asked though. In an interview Harmy says this about using the blu ray sources: Even with Star Wars finally out on Blu-ray, Harmy doesn't plan to start the projects from scratch. "I also decided against using the Blu-Rays as a source for the new versions, as I’d still have to work in 720p and from the comparisons I've seen between the Blu-Rays and the highest quality HDTV captures, the difference is so small (being the same resolution from the same master) that it wouldn't be worth it," he explained. If I were Harmy I wouln't start the project from scratch either, it's clearly a monumental effort (I watched in awe his youtube clip of despecializing the blast shield helmet / light sabre / target scene). But can some in the know clear up the quote (or misquote) above? Are the blu rays the same resolution as the HDTV broadcasts? Why does Harmy say he would still need to work in 720p? Is it because upscaling oot elements to 1080p becomes noticable? Thanks.
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#570310
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My STAR WARS Thesis; I need help!
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I'm from Europe.I saw star wars in 1977 and I was 7. At 7 i naturally took everything for granted.  At the time the whole NASA and space thing was quite new and was something that attacted the interest of the general population anyway.

Star wars was a brilliant ground breaking film in many ways, but what propelled it into cultural icon status was one simple innovation: movie merchandising.

For the first time I saw characters from the movie in the supermarket. On lunchboxes in my school. I remember once when my family was at catholic mass (church), my brother was wearing a star wars tee shirt and by chance he was chosen to bring some offering up to the altar, so everyone in the church ended up seeing darth vader .

A perfect combination of a faiy tale movie, based in space at a time when space was 'glamorous' with the goodies and baddies being foisted on the population through merchandising.

Merchandising is the conduit through which a great movie made it into the general awareness of the world. It hadn't been done before. There were great movies before. I honestly can't overstate the importance of movie merchandising at a time when movie merchandising wasn't being done.Take it from someone who was there!

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#570131
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Idea: GOUT V3 and DVDO ISCAN upscaler/processor?
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Interesting. I didn't know that. I'm still curious about the potential increase in quality of running gforce/gout through an iscan. It doesn't just do upscaling but also does general image enhancement apparently. I've seen some people mention iscans on this forum but in relation to laserdiscs. So regardless of whether it's avi or vob i'd love to know how much quality is improved with an iscan.
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#451157
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Info Wanted: Is a 35mm reel scan going to be any good?
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Hi, I’m a newbie and I feel like a fly amongst giants here.

My short background story is I bought a new hld-x9 player back in 2003 for $5000 and the ultimate edition as Lucas said he was never going to release the GOUT again. I played each disc to make sure it worked and was pretty impressed withthe quality, then went travelling for 7 years, so my hld-x9 player has had a pretty good life.

I came across this website recently and saw a user say that he has a hld-x9 and the gout dvd processed by g-force’s script is about 10 times better than the laserdiscs, so c’est la vie… although i was a bit gutted at the time.

I’ve spent a lot of time reading these forums and I (correct me if I’m wrong), get the impression that the “holy grail” is a scanned 35mm reel to reel of the sw saga.

However 16mm has a resolution of 1800 lines (better than hd video) and the person who did the puggo release says that it’s not better quality than the gout dvd, and having seen some scans on their website I would tend to agree.

I think I’ve also seen some scans of 35mm (by negative1?) and also they did not seem to be of better quality than the gout dvd.

So I guess my question is, from a “beating the quality of the gout” standpoint, is a 35mm reel to reel scan going to be any good?