michaelkirschner

OK so I just downloaded the PAL and it is working on my computer but I haven't burned to a disc yet because I am unsure how it will turn out. If the video is in PAL why is it working on my computer? My computer is connected to a standard NTSC tv which as far as I am aware is not a universal tv

Duke of Crydee said:

I have a question that probably has been asked before, but I'm unsure how to search 344 pages to find it.

Basically, I've been collecting Star Wars digital material for decades now and while I have not watched each version, can someone who has watched the major ones tell me if I'm right?

Question is, the fan made version which most comes close to the theatrical OT. The top 3 I think are:

OCP Classic Edition

This Harmy Despecialized Edition

Adywan Revisited Edition

My gut is telling me Harmy's should be the closest? If I am remembering right, OCP's is a DVD/LD mashup which is very close but no other updates plus resolution issues. Adywan's, while very good resolution, color correction, etc.....contains a lot of personal additions/upgrades that never existed.

This one though, seems to just be great resolution, purist content with slight updates like color correction.

Am I right or am I really off the mark and need to do a lot more research? :) Thanks.

No you are exactly right Harmy's Despecialized is a purist recreation with some clean up work done to the picture so that it can be presented in the best possible resolution but everything that was shown in the theaters in 77, 80, and 83 is preserved flaws and all. Adywan's Revisited is a different school of thought as it is arguably the way the Special Editions should have been. And of course there are some other projects as well but I consider Harmy's and Adywan's to be the top projects

That's awesome thank you and another successful DVD burn so now the only one I'm missing is Building Empire and my collection will be complete 

And if someone could upload the NTSCs of Star Wars Begins and Empire that would be awesome. Thank you Chyron I downloaded Returning to Jedi last night and put it onto a DVD this morning

I think it would be better if you used the Star Wars font

Never mind it's back up but I can't find a complete torrent that isn't missing files

It looks like myspleen has crashed is it like this for anyone else?

chyron8472 said:

Would someone PLEASE tell me where to get a DVD version of this? I don't want just the Vimeo download.

It's not on the spleen.

 

EDIT: Found it on Fanedit.info (usenet). I will upload to spleen once I have it.

Thank you very much for that do you have the other two? 

Harmy said:

What, are you kidding? Of course the extras will be in HD. Some will even be 1080p. And seriously, what do I care about people still using only DVD? Should I make a VHS version too? It's 2013.

Edit: Just to avoid confusion and unnecessary questions, there will be an SD DVD of this but it will be the only SD content I will make.

Well not VHS but definitely laserdisc they have laserdisc burners right?

You_Too said:

@animemaakuo: There are references for greyscale and color which are used by the film studios to master the discs. If you really want to see everything exactly the way it was mastered, there's a good guide that I learned from: http://www.curtpalme.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10457

If you only want a basic setup of your TV, you can buy Digital video essentials and you'll be able to set brightness, contrast and color/saturation correctly.

Then there's always the usual advice: Set color temp to the warmest setting, turn off all dynamic contrast, edge enhancement, noise reduction, sharpness, wide color gamut etc.

I don't understand why TVs even have that crap in the first place if they are better when turned off maybe it's to trick consumers into thinking the tv is better than the competitor 

I haven't really been following this thread as much as I have the Despecialized thread, do any of the regulars on here have a pretty good estimate on when ESB will be finished?

So let me ask you guys a question. If I was a Star Wars purist what is the definitive audio track? I have heard that The Beatles in mono is considered the "pure" experience over the stereo track, is this similar for Star Wars or are all audio options equal?

doubleKO said:

FreaQ said:

For everybody interested and for the future Harmy BR here are the chapters.

I started making a text file to mux these in, but they must be SE chapters; they go out of whack around Jabba's removal. Can anyone point me to GOUT chapter times or recommend an easy way to extract them?

Well the 2.0 had chapter breaks on it

StarThoughts said:

Harmy said:

Depending on how much space will be needed for the extras, I might actually only include the three '77 mixes in lossless.

That would be disappointing, as I had synched the lossless '85 track to v.2.0 and loved how good the music in particular sounded, but the space limitations make that understandable. Here's hoping that won't be necessary, though.

I love Hairy Hen's work, can't wait to hear the new version.

Why not do a BD-50 setup then?

I see nobody is mentioning this but on 2.1 the (R) during the 20th Century Fox fanfare appears earlier than it does in 2.0

Harmy said:

michaelkirschner said:

...does anyone notice this?

Yeah, probably a lot of people noticed this, back in 1977 ;-)

It's hard to see but there is a sharp border on the green ill put a red circle around it tomorrow 

The green in this has an odd border at the top does anyone notice this? It looks like a green block rather than a glow

Harmy what are you thinking of doing for the special features? Can we see the menu designs? 

animemaakuo said:

How do I merge all of these files into an ISO for burning? And I use DVD Decrypter. Works very well.

Jdownloader should extract all 40 or so rars when the have finished downloading and will put them in a folder labeled v2.1 

OK so now that the AVCHD is out is anyone interested in doing a commentary? 

I'm from Connecticut

I know Simon Pegg is a fan

Fireproof710 said:

@ michaelkirschner if you right click on one that is queued, you can hit force download and it'll start that one. Also check on the bottom how many max connections you have enabled. Ive got 3 going at once.

perfect I set it to 20 connections and it's flying now

Harmy said:

Why in 8 hours? Anyway, try updating JDownloader.

That's the ETA jdownloader is giving me but it may be longer since the rars keep asking me to reenter captchas 

What if jdownloader says almost all the rars are offline? Plugin error out of date

Never mind it looks like I just had to click resume I guess I'll find out in 8 hours if it works