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adywan said:

Well i have a PS3 and i can play my 1080p mkv HD movies just fine without having to re-encode them or use an expensive burner. i can usually fit a movie on a DVD-9 or split over 2 discs. you can also make blu-ray player compatible HD discs with chapters & menus by using plain old dual layer discs without re-encoding too.

Good luck with getting any new movies for you HD-DVD player :) As has been said HD-DVD is dead and will just fade into obscurity. It won't even have the nostalgia value that laserdiscs have. I think it was pretty much doomed from the start. Microsoft made a HUGE mistake when they didn't build their X-Box360 with a built in drive and a HDMI port. That could have tipped the scales in favour of HD-DVD somewhat.

adywan,

i totally agree with you, up until a certain point...yes, the xbox 360 could probably play mkv movies also...

(check out tversity : [url] http://tversity.com/home [/url]

the fact that i can create hd-dvd movies, burn them on regular or DL dvd discs, means

i will NEVER run out movies....(****** COUGH, bluray rips->hd dvd COUGH******)

that combined with all the HD rips out there, means the actual format is irrelevant,

only the player is important.....and $50 for the player+ (xbox360) was cheaper

than supporting any sony player (yes, i know other people make bluray players,

but it will be a cold day before i support them or the ps3).... i'm sure a standalone

hd-dvd player is dirt cheap compared to bluray players also....

 that and the fact that bluray movies are pretty expensive,

compared to regular dvds.......

so while i'm watching SW ep 1,2,3,4,5,6 in hd-dvd,

how long is it going to be before the appear in bluray format?

(and yes, someone could convert these files over to bluray,

burn them on a bluray disc, etc.......hmmmm......has anyone tried that either??)

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and on another different note..

i'm on a high-definition quest for some reason..

has anyone tried upconverting/resampling/etc.....this to a 720p, or 1080p format yet?

i might try it just to see what happens...

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Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

A guy named Lucas once tried restoring some Ep.IV deleted scenes and re-inserting them into the movie.  Turned out very badly.

your sarcasm and irony are too strong for me...the force must be with you....ha ha..

seriously, not to rehash SE vs GOUT for the 10 millionth time...i didn't mind seeing the jabba scene (yeah, it looked funky, so what)..

but what was wrong with the biggs scene at the end?

and the long intro to mos eisley? or the new sandcrawler scenes? 

like i said i've only seen the original <20 times, so the changes to the SE weren't as dramatic to me...

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skyjedi2005 said:

while your at it why not make your own beta and laserdisc, LOL.

 

HD-DVD died and is obsolete.

 

If George ever gets off his but and releases his preferred version you can bet it will be on blu ray.

well, i will never support bluray, thanx to those idiots at sony, i've been burned by their lousy formats,

overpriced crappy electronics, and shoddy cds/dvds etc way too many times....i hope george lucas NEVER releases a high-def version of

any of the star wars movies on bluray...and that goes double for bluray burners/media/etc........**#$*&#*)#$&)#

besides i could care less if hd-dvd is dead, i have a player that works (just like my laserdisc)...except i don't have to buy an expensive

burner to play the files at high resolutions.....so are you having fun playing your mkv files off your computer?

this way, i can preserve at least some of the quality of the files...and it will be interesting to see how they come out..

actually, a 13gig file could be split across 2 dual layer dvds....without losing any quality....hmmmm......

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wideload,

i'm done transferring the 8gig versions of the prequels,

will be getting back to you shortly..

does anyone here have a hd-dvd player,

i have the cheap one with the xbox 360..

i'm going to transfer all my versions over to hd-dvd

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=705146

lets see if it works..

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Ziz said:

The only way GL would go for that is if someone appealed to his ego and sold it to him as a "before and after" mode - "Look, people can turn the FX on and off to see how much better SW is with the CG than without!"

i like both versions.....but then, i also like computer graphics/effects/art etc....

both versions can exist....depending on what mood i'm in...i could

watch either one..it really doesn't make much of a difference which one you watch..

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Kurgan said:

It'd just be cool to me to be able to sit and watch the movie and when it came to a point in the movie where the Deleted Scene would have occured (according to the screenplay) it would automatically play it. I don't care if it's "jarring" or the quality is bad... I just want to watch it that way.

 Some people have suggested that I create my own Star Wars fan edit just for that purpose, but I'm lazy. It's just too much work for me to do it.

 I figure someone who is already doing a fan edit would have no problem making a branching version. It'd be like what they did with the X-Men dvd... you could watch it with or without the deleted scenes, even though the deleted scenes had unfinished SFX and were of poorer quality than the rest of the film. Heck, people did the same thing for the Episode III deleted scenes (the SFX in that "death of Shaak Ti/fuel tanks" scene looked like crap! there were visible green screens and safety wires too).

Restoring an entire 2 hour film obviously is a ton of work. These deleted scenes amount to just a few minutes in total. Even though they look really bad, I'm sure it'd be easier to restore them than to restore an entire movie. Somebody could even colorize the alternate cantina footage if they wanted to. That'd be sweet!

 

why don't go over to the technical forums, and actually learn how to do it? instead of just blindly asking..

there's plenty of people/experts that will help you out..

i'm new here, and i've gotten a ton of help/rare versions/ideas ...

put some effort into it, instead of waiting around, expecting for someone to hand it to you on a silver platter..

didn't you read my post a bit higher, where i said i'm putting the scenes back into the movie, or was it too

hard to scroll up?

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DMaarten said:

just a quick stupid question, WAY to many pages to read in this topic :)

I just downloaded the dvd-9 ntsc version, does this allready have the fix done or must is still be applied to the iso?

check and make sure the files work on your computer, with a dvd software program,

or some other utility (vlc player, etc)...if it works you're fine..

if not, then use the fix...

don't apply it, if you don't need too..

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is anyone seeding this on myspleen? i haven't been able to connect to anyone..

or is there an easier/better way to get this....thanks

 ***NEVERMIND...i found the files on fanedit.org ****

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SilverWook said:

One used to be able to size up the competition, (recognize the guys with money to burn) before they implemented that feature. >_<

 honestly,

it doesn't help, since most of the high bidders wait until the last minute anyways,

myself and the 1 other bidder are the only ones up there....i just put in a bid,

so i wouldn't forget,and also to see how high this one person is willing to go..

apparently < $1000 so far..

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i'm making a fanedit, that covers practically every version of star wars

from the vinyl/8mm/vhs/laserdisc/dvd/se/720p/1080p versions....and

it will inlclude all the deleted scenes...however, i'm not sure how much

they will be restored...

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thanx solo21,

got all the filters,
installed everything,...
but it crashed on limitedSharpenFaster function,
so i got that also from :

http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/LimitedSharpen

which had further dependencies....(crashed on simpleAverage function)..

so now i'm trying to debug that..
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ok, got everything working, had to replace some functions
with the equivalent mt_* versions, and then it ran..

hmmm..my first working script...lets see how some results come
out...i'll let you know..

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