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#486673
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.: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
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Harmy said:

...but capturing the 1993DC doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to me.

It did make a lot of sense when Laserman captured these, GOUT wasn't available back then.

EDIT: I fear that the only thing this XØ transfer have that can be of some use, is one of the best representations out there of the 1981- A New Hope crawl/opening shot.

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#485387
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New Blu Ray Special Editions
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RedFive said:

What about the 2006 DVD's?  I haven't actually seen them, and I understand the quality is pretty lame, but isn't it the OOT nonetheless? 

Those 2006 bonus discs is what is called "GOUT - Georges' Original Unaltered Trilogy" around these parts. Made from an 18 years old Laserdisc master. Cheap pornos are treated better on video than one of the most popular and influental films ever made.

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#485333
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New Blu Ray Special Editions
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RedFive said:

The way I see it, with all the versions available on the interwebz (namely Adywan's SE's and Dark Jedi's GOUT's) why do we still yearn for an official version? 

Because SW-fans and cineasts yearn to finally be able to enjoy these films restored to their former glory like every other movie, and Lucasfilm is the company that can make it happen if the madman just greenlight it. Old SW and film fans like myself have lived in a kind of a twisted nightmare for 13 years where the films we loved suddenly got taken away, for those of us that remember and know how beautiful these films can look, dark_jedi's improved GOUT-set are in no way a substitute for that, no matter how much g-force improved it, it's still a polished lousy Laserdisc transfer. That's why.

RedFive said:

We're clearly never going to get it, so be happy with what you have.  It's probably better than anything Lucas would give us anyway.

On this site we're clearly not happy about it.

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#485319
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Info Wanted: The many releases of Star Wars...
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pittrek said:

The 2006 DVDs don't include the theatrical versions, but the 1993 laserdisc versions. They have a new audio mix (from 1993), different color timing, different editing (missing frames) ... The SW DVD is actually a merge of the 1993 laserdisc version with a 1977 theatrical opening crawl. 

To call a few missing frames lost when making the telecine for "different editing" is very misleading. IIRC the '93/"GOUT" telecine is the one that have the most frames intact out of all SW-releases on video so far.

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#484884
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THX 1138 "preservations" + the 'THX 1138 Italian Cut' project (Released)
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You'll definitely find out where you can get this when the time comes, thanks for your offer of help.

I am sorry it taking so long to get this Italian cut out there, but it is the subtitles that takes the time to do, even though erri_wan did a fantastic job with the translation and timings, it still takes a lot of effort and time to make them read smoothly as a DVD subtitle stream, where you set the line breaks so you can read them as fast as possible, where I split lines that is too long and a lot of retiming and correcting typos etc.

I needed to take a little break from the sub work, before I went crazy but I'll finish it up soon. Everything is almost done, I will send you the corrected subs soon erri, along with a few questions I have regarding some lines I want you to take a look at.

The scan of the rating symbol you sent me was great, but I noticed the Italian DVD-version have a different rating than the one you provided: http://cgi.ebay.it/Luomo-che-fuggi-dal-futuro-THX-1138-ED-SPECIALE-2-DVD-/260392983677?pt=DVD_Cinema_Internazionale&hash=item3ca0a19c7d but the same goes for the US rating that was changed for the '04 release so I don't know about that one. Any thoughts on that? Also weird that even the official DVD have the title wrong with a regular apostrophe instead of an accent mark.

 

Regarding the differences in cropping between the US/JAP and UK LD-transfer, the UK transfer Nerfherder provided will definitely be useful for some sequences where the other is badly cropped, like this one:

US transfer

UK transfer

 

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#484427
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STAR WARS V8 - A Final Attempt (Released)
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Asaki said:

It may not be as easy to work with as the GOUT, but as far as sitting down and just watching the theatrical movies without DVNR, it's obviously not going to look any better until we have 32mm preservations (and even there, it's looking iffy).

 I guess you mean 35mm.

Arnie.d said:

I'm sorry I was never able to finish a transfer. It's just that I began enthusiastically but in the end simply didn't have the time. Real life was catching up with me.

Nice to hear from you, and I'm also sorry to hear that you were never able to finish them, but it's also understandable, real life is more important, you did however put out one damn fine DVD in "V8" when you were at it. :)

Arnie.d said:

I ofcourse still have the raw X9 captures of the JSC. I'm happy to somehow give them to someone who can finish the project. However, the JSC isn't the holy grail. It has in my view 2 big problems. One is the rainbowing which I think isn't a capture artifact but was on the source itself. And second the ghosting effect, which might be a capture artifact, although I adjusted the sharpness of the capture card to minimize it.

I agree, the rainbowing and ghosting are pretty horrible on these, it looks like Empire have less ghosting than SW though, or am I wrong?

And the JSC are definitely not the holy grail, and I don't think anyone has made them out to be that either, that's the Technicolor prints IMO.

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#484060
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STAR WARS V8 - A Final Attempt (Released)
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I'm glad you're finally able to get a hold of this DVD pittrek, I agree with you, it's one of the best SW-preservations out there, that's why it hurts so much when his continuation with the X-9 seems to have died.

The brightness of this transfer you're talking about, could it not be your nostalgia that is kicking in, watching SW on video in the eighties? IMO it is too bright and the colors is fu**ed up, but its strong parts are the lack of DVNR, clipped white levels and it also have more vertical detail and less gate weave than the GOUT. It's quite a revelation coming back to if you've gotten used to watch the GOUT transfers.

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#484053
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Complete Comparison of Special Edition Visual Changes
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Noticed this when I last skimmed through the '97 version of Empire, I've sort of pointed it out before but then I went by your screen-caps. Anyway, these two shots of the bridge have a static Stardestroyer outside the windows in the original, but they added some motion to it in the SE, which is nice I guess but as there is some time going on between these two shots, the second matte should have had a differently positioned Stardestroyer, both are using the same fx-work which makes it a little deja vu-shot.

^ Love the deliberatly removed color red in the '04 transfer. ;)

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#483785
Topic
Complete Comparison of Special Edition Visual Changes
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hairy_hen said:

Looking more closely I think they are the same stars, but in some shots they're positioned way differently in addition be being very dull, so it's hard to recognise sometimes . . .

Yeah, these three shots definitely have the starfield-plates composited in different positions compared to the original, if these screen-caps are matched up perfectly that is, but it looks like it.

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#483769
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Info: a Smear-free '93 ?
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Darth Mallwalker said:

After all, the Technidisc factory got some not-so-glowing reviews:

Blam Entertainment Group said:

Technidisc continued to suffer from generally poor replication. Most discs contain an excessive amount of single-line dropouts and all CLV/CAA sides suffer from excessive crosstalk on all laserdisc players.
Full article here

I don't even know what crosstalk looks like, but it doesn't sound good.

 

 Hmm, interesting. Will check it out.

Darth Mallwalker said:


And don't forget this comment from mitch@lddb.com:
"The Technidisc pressing from 1993 is not very good"
Maybe he meant crosstalk?

While some of us find the content of this LD quite interesting, possibly the disc itself could be (relatively) poorly mastered.

Yeah, I saw that comment, now I need to find out what "crosstalk" actually means in this case.

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#483524
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Info: a Smear-free '93 ?
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pittrek said:

My jaw just dropped.

The video looks absolutely amazing ! It looks just like I remember Star Wars including the brightness, dirt and grain.I absolutely LOVE it

Who should I kill to get a copy ? :-)

I think it's still up there on usenet. Arnie.d did a fantastic job with it.

Sorry, Mallwalker for taking up your thread with this. I should maybe have posted those clips elsewhere.

 

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#483518
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THX 1138 "preservations" + the 'THX 1138 Italian Cut' project (Released)
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I'm almost done with the subtitle-work for "The Man Who Escaped From The Future". Just taking a little break as it is incredibly boring work.

This is the font I'm going with:

The font is "Calibri" and I think it looks quite good and it's also easy to read. Let me know what you think.

So what is the correct way when typing FUGGI' in the Italian title? I also see it typed like this, Fuggì ...are both ways correct perhaps? I just want it to be correctly done on the cover I'm doing. I'm talking about the accent mark or whatever it is after the letter "I".