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#1092760
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Star Wars Despecialized Editions - Custom Bluray Set (Released)
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J0E said:

The G said:

J0E said:

alatizzle said:

J0E said:

Because people give up and buy it off of him, if it were easier to acquire that would be a different story.

I agree it is a bit tedious but it really shames me that fans are WILLING to put money into this. I mean
the versions I got my hands on were from TUIG and yeah it sucks they have no menus but I can wait until I get into a private torrent site. The barebones versions are plenty to tide me over and they did take me a while to figure out how to convert MKV files to a blu-ray format but after that it was smooth sailing.

Some people find it easier to just buy them, some of us don’t have the internet speed to download 200+GB of data or blu-ray burners etc. I’ve had this argument before, but it’s just supply and demand. Until there is an easier way to get these, which I doubt there ever will be, because if that ever happened it would for sure get shut down at that point, people will always try to find a way to make an extra buck or two.

You don’t need a blu-ray burner. All you need is a DVD burner and some Dual-layered DVDs to get your hands on high quality versons of the DE’s/SSE’s. The AVC-HD versions on TUIG (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yLsvexWBVM8IYSGopKuSfsGk5YIgCwQWd23bqb5ryD4/pub) and do the multi-part rar download. If you have good internet speeds then it will download in like an hour or two, if not then it might take 3-4 hours. Then all you need is something like ImgBurn and burn it to the Dual-layered DVDs. If you’re really that desperate why not take a day to figure that out with the help of an extensive guide and a community more than willing to help you along the way. The AVC-HD versions are perfect for Dual-layered DVDs because they’re only 8-9 Gigabytes. Why wait for 5-10 days to get it in the mail for 200$ or even 50$ when you can do it for the price of some dual-layered DVDs and take just a few hours of your day. Seems perfectly acceptable to me.

Some tv’s (Look up your specific model online.) can even play video files off a usb stick. Just convert the mkv to whatever format your tv accepts with Handbrake and just plug in the usb stick, thats the method I used for awhile and am still using until I can find some blank Blu-ray discs.

Dude my TV is like 10 years old. It’s something like a 50 inch 720p-1080i Panasonic. It’s about the size of a gigantic tube TV. The main reason I use it has almost no input lag which makes it perfect for gaming. Not only that but the amount of picture settings it has for playing fullscreen tapes/DVDs, 4:3 letterboxed laserdiscs and widescreen VHS tapes makes it perfect for my needs and I haven’t found a new model TV with half the picture settings of it. Not to go off on a tangent but sorry no USB 4 me…

I guess modern Television manufacturers only account people doing some lite gaming and watching DVDs and Blu-rays. 😕

I only recently got rid of my 13 year old Panasonic 42" PWD6 monitor (with a massive 852x480 resolution) - no usb, hdmi, dvi, no speakers, not even a built-in tv tuner - just a couple of ‘panels’ (scart and rca) and a vga input…

To get around it’s limited connections… I bought a HDMI to vga adapter for £5 - and connected it to a £30 chromecast which streamed near on anything with no hassle from the pc to the tv 😃

May be an option for you mate?

 

(the ‘chromecast audio’ is a superb option for old hifi systems with an ‘aux in’ too…)

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#1092554
Topic
Star Wars Despecialized Editions - Custom Bluray Set (Released)
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JediFan9728 said:

Also you don’t even need to spend the money on DVD’s or Blu rays, but can instead just keep the files and watch them on your computer. However I like having the physical copies. Plus there’s so much great artwork here to make a professional looking set!

Aye, there are some decent alternatives to having them on dvd/blu ray discs and in cases - a few ideas can be found in here…

http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/A-Star-Wars-USB-Box-Case-Tape-Wallet-Tin-Frame-and-Cover-Thread/id/53879

and also look around pininterest or similar sites like etsy - or re-use old Star Wars packaging or boxes etc - or browse some image search sites for ideas and inspiration…

As others have said it’s making your own set that adds to it too 😃

 

(and that’s not to take anything away from njvc and the many other talented people’s superb work in producing some fantastic quality covers, discart, inserts and boxes etc for this)

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#1092553
Topic
Box set....someday (feedback)
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I’m no expert… but I really like it - though if it is to be a ‘Saga’ cover covering all 3 trilogies then it’ll be interesting to see how your poster evolves given there are still 2 films to go… 😉

There’e certainly not enough Saga covers around (yet), and there are still only a few decent OT posters too that encompass the whole trilogy, detola’s being a cracker - http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Detolas-Custom-BluRay-Set-Pic-Heavy/id/52558 and looking forward to Tyler0013’s new box cover.

Yours is a very nice job in my humble opinion - the layout - the sizes and location of characters - the colouring - all look ‘right’ - and yet maintains that classic ‘Original Trilogy’ look/feel 😃
 

The one criticism I’d level at it is that the 3 stormtroopers underneath the Star Wars logo don’t quite look right - I think it’s a colour thing given the surrounding colours rather than the picture itself (the yellow sandy background clashes with the dusky orange?) - though a nice job blending in the 3 main types of stormtrooper from the 3 trilogies there.

 

Hope you do some more posters and show your cool work here - and also for your boxset - and maybe update this poster (if it needs it) when the other 2 films come out 😃

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#1092175
Topic
Doctor Who
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Warbler said:

oojason said:

Warbler said:

oojason said:

Tobar said:

oojason said:

We have seen / been told that Gallifreyans regenerate into a different sex before too - The Corsair or The Master/Missy for example…

There’s that tired excuse again. This “precedent” was created after Moffat was accused of sexism and the new fangirls started demanding a female Doctor. Since then to combat that image he kowtowed and started to introduce those elements. Nowhere in the classic series is something like this hinted at. If NuWho can’t get the Doctor’s age right, I’m certainly not going to trust it with something like this.

I’ll be watching the Christmas Special and first episode of series 11 but will probably be stopping after that. I would not be surprised to see the show’s ratings start to drop after this.

Not so much a ‘tired excuse’ if it is new, no?

 

To me it’s all the same series - Doctor Who.

We also recently saw a Gallifreyan regenerate from an old white man into a young black woman - just seemed to be part of the Gallifreyan life.

Did it ever happen before Missy came along? Did it ever happen in the old series? We went 50 years without a regeneration causing a gender change. Moffat added that capability for PC reasons, as oojason said.

I certainly didn’t say it was for pc reasons.

Correct, you didn’t. I don’t know how I thought you had said that. I should have said “as Tobar said”. Again, you have my apologies.

No worries mate - it was a busy day in here and lots of cross-posts back and forth between a fair few people.

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#1092174
Topic
All Things Star Trek
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SilverWook said:

How does one “tune in” a streaming show? 😉

I wouldn’t mate - I get my little brother to hold the coat hanger in the back of the tv at the just the right angle to get an ok-ish picture for all 3 tv channels 😃

 

SilverWook said:

Major spoiler ahead.
http://io9.gizmodo.com/star-trek-discoverys-main-character-has-suddenly-becom-1797161552

Stuff like that somehow illicits a response in my head that wants me to watch it a little less (I won’t explain why due it being a spoiler - though it’s not hard to work out if you’ve read the article).

Though fair play to those who like that sort of thing.

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#1091866
Topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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‘Russian lawyer who met Donald Trump Jr had the FSB state intelligence agency as a client’…

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/russian-lawyer-donald-trump-jr-natalia-veselnitskaya-fsb-client-moscow-intelligence-agency-kremlin-a7853251.html

 

‘Donald Trump’s personal lawyer quits top role as administration faces fresh setback over Russia probe’…

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-white-house-legal-spokesman-quits-mark-carallo-administration-staff-team-a7852471.html

 

‘Donald Trump asks lawyers about powers to pardon himself and his children in Russia probe, report reveals’…

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-pardon-robert-s-mueller-special-counsel-russia-a7852181.html

 

This made me laugh - ‘Looks like the First Lady of Japan pretended not to speak English for nearly 2 hrs to avoid talking to Trump’ - https://twitter.com/JessicaValenti/status/887997477680533504 😃

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#1091746
Topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Jeebus said:

http://www.newsweek.com/porn-age-checks-uk-verification-637638

It’ll be very unlikely to happen - it may seem a popular idea by the Tories right now who need something for their supporters to rally behind - and it’ll be a good, though hypocritical, move for the Tory readers of the Mail, S*n and Express.

Yet it won’t work…

It’s similar to that router idea which would ban porn that the UK Govt had a couple of years ago - before they were told it was unworkable and the public found out that a large Tory donor would be the making most of the routers?

Besides…

What is porn and what is art?

What will the appeal process be? - and how much will the regulatory body cost to fund? how quick will the regulatory body be to ease access to Barnados, NSPCC and other websites dealing, helping and educating in sex abuse and other sites mistakenly listed (as in that router opt in/out farce?)?

How about sites that aren’t listed as mainly porn sites but do contain some - or little amount of ‘porn’ material?

a vpn will simply get around this UK ban - even a chrome extension. 'Cos kids are useless with tech…

Even if not, P2P is about to get a little boost next year…

Smaller ISP’s in the UK even still allow access to banned torrent sites - so how will the Govt force them to do this? I doubt the Govt has a list of all the ISPs in the UK…

Storing financial details (if credit card ID) of customers on a porn site isn’t the best idea - and could make them a target for hackers/blackmailers etc - let alone the idea of trusting financial information with untrusted companies (and employees)… are the FCA going to be involved too? 😉

and for 16-17 years olds - you can legally have sex - but you can’t watch others have sex online? Even for education, or ideas etc…

and finally - no kid is ever going to get hold of their parent’s credit card info are they…

 

(and that’s IF the Tories can get this through and made law - which is unlikely - seems to be posturing and preaching to their converted)