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HansiG said:

The Phantom Menace:
Theatrical 1080p Recreation

Attack of the Clones:
Official Blu-Ray

Revenge of the Sith:
Official Blu-Ray

A New Hope:
Harmy’s Despecialized Edition

The Empire Strikes Back:
Harmy’s Despecialized Edition

Return of the Jedi:
Harmy’s Despecialized Edition

The Force Awakens:
Official Blu-Ray

Who has done a 1080p version of TPM theatrical version?

I can’t chose just one. The most unbearable changes are

• the new colour grading (I refuse to call it colour correction) of all 3 movies
• new OB1 scream
• CG creatures at Most Eisley
• Greedo shooting first
• the dumb boring added scene where Vader gets the shuttle, flies with it to the Star Destroyer, and then lands with it in a deleted scene from ROTJ
• new “everybody fights the Empire” sequences at the end of ROTJ
• “Nooooooooooooooooooooooo”
• Hayden ghost

I don’t know why, if it’s something with my eyes, but I can’t watch a 3D movie for longer than 10-15 minutes. I then have to take off the glasses and rest my eyes a bit before I can continue. It gives me just a very weird feeling, sometimes even headaches.

My list (before seeing Civil War)

1. Iron Man (9.5/10)
2. Captain America : The Winter Soldier (9/10)
3. Avengers 1 (8/10)
4. The Guardians of the Galaxy (7/10)
5. Ant-man (7/10)
6. Captain America 1 (7/10)
7. Iron Man 3 (6/10)
8. Avengers : Age of Ultron (6/10)
9. Iron Man 2 (5/10)
10. Thor (5/10)
11. Thor 2 (4/10)
12. The Incredible Hulk (3/10)

Don’t forget last year’s Avengers. The first reviews I read were very positive, but some people have slowly started to say it was a mess and not as good as everybody claimed, now almost everybody says Ultron was crap. I hope Civil War will be a good movie (I really liked Cap 2), but there is a little part of me which is afraid that it will be the next Age of Ultron.

nightstalkerpoet said:

HDR on LED technology is what bothers me. Unless there’s 1:1 Pixel to LED ratio, you’re always going to struggle with abnormalities due to light bleed. Plasma was far better suited to HDR than LED, so it’s a shame to see it go. OLED seems promising but I’m hesitant to buy piggybacking new technologies.

My complaint with 4K Bluray (which was my complaint with Blu Ray in general) is that the push is resolution almost exclusively.

Most of the films being released on 4KBD were mastered in 2k. That means that all of that larger 100GB disc space and H265 compression efficiency is being wasted on an upscaled image. Blurays have consistently done that with older tv shows and especially anime - 1080p upscales of 480p material. I’d much rather see the bitrate that is being wasted on Pseudo Picture information piped into the best possible representation of the source.

Star Wars is going to be affected it a LOT due to image quality disparities between films -
Ep 1 was mastered at 2k, but has the potential to be remastered at higher quality if the original film sources are available.
Eps 2 and 3 are limited to their 2k masters, which themselves are upscales from 1080p digital sources.
Eps 4-6 have multiple masters, depending on which version is released. The original negatives have the potential to go even beyond 4k if they’re available in good enough condition - if not, Legacy has shown (well, hinted) that a 4k version is very attainable.
Sadly, we’re more likely to get Special Editions, which were scanned at 2k in the 90s, printed to a film negative, which were then rescanned at 4k in the early 2000’s.
Ep 7 (and presumably 8 and 9 will be) is already mastered at 4k.

With that in mind… everyone knows we’re going to get a 9 film, 4k Bluray Set.
And despite everything above… all 9 will be 4k, H265 encodes. So much wasted space on imaginary “extra detail” at the expense of the actual source material. Your average viewer wouldn’t even know that the film on the disc is only encoded at 2k, but I think there’s a good chance they would notice when watching that it had double the bits per pixel.

Source for the 2K and 4K scans info? AFAIK the original trilogy was scanned only in 1080p

FanFiltration said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

If only they’d killed him way back when in the Terrigen mist instead of Trip (I think that was his name). That way they’d maintain the diversity AND have likeable characters. Everyone would win. Alas…

Agree 100%

I absolutely forgot there was a character named Trip also here 😃 For me Trip will always be the chief engineer of the Enterprise NX-01

Thanks a lot, I thought I am the only person who dislikes the new characters. I mean the first season brought us fully fleshed out 3 dimensional characters, whose names I still remember, and later seasons brought us the black guy, the British guy, Xena, the blond Xena, the electric guy, old Adama, the gay guy and the fast hispanic chick. Instead creating new and new characters they should concentrate on developing the existing characters more.

I hope it’s one of the “new” characters and not Coulson, Fitz, Simmons, May or Daisy

I don’t want to defend or attack anybody but please don’t forget there are countries where downloading a movie is perfectly legal. Not sure if it’s his cause, but I’m only reacting to the suggestion that “watching a downloaded copy of a film” is automatically illegal everywhere.

Could you please always write the source of each picture? They look nice, but way too bright btw 😃

Actually if you only know his website at http://starwarslegacy.com/archive/ the articles were written for a completely different project.

digitalfreaknyc said:

darthrush said:

Wazzles said:

Darth Lucas said:

We can call it whatever we want. I call it an empty spot on my movie shelf that needs to be filled asap.

I’ll go with this.

+1 But I compeletly respect what Mikes plan is and understand why the distribution of this won’t be like Depseiclaized.

And I still have no idea why anyone cares about it. If no one will ever see it then who cares what he does? #movealong

I myself love watching Mike’s videos. As a technical guy (sort of) I am the kind of person who watches behind the scenes / remastering documentaries more often then the main movies.

Wow. Just wow. Who will be next?

Sad, it’s premièring here sometime in May. I love the fact that basically everybody calls it the best MCU movie yet. After seeing the nonsensical Age Of Ultron and “OK” Ant-man I am really looking forward to this movie.

The first reviews are on youtube and everybody seems to like it. Will it not premiere in May?

Mike O said:

Well, at least we’re getting the director’s cut of II. Hopefully Hunt is right and its testing the waters so we can eventually get remastered versions of the rest, but I’m not holding my breath.

You mean in HD, right? Because we got the DC of II already 😃

Some shots would need a small manual correction, but overall it looks great. Can’t wait till the updated tool 😃

TheHutt said:

Does it matter what exactly the title is? According to some of the international Blu-Ray releases, this movie actually has no title:

I think that the picture is only a template, each country should print on it it’s own title. At least I hope so 😃

OMG this looks brilliant

According to some fan sites the new show will be set in the prime universe between The Undiscovered Country and Encounter at Farpoint, but I can’t find it on any source which would look “official”. Is it just a dumb rumour or was it already confirmed?

Is there a chance you would test your newest methods on some faded footage and not just single images if it’s possible?

I still hope it WILL appear on spleen 😃 From your comments it sounds really interesting.

Hm… I have a private 8mm film which is horribly red faded. I have tried various color correcting methods in the last 10 years but none of them worked as good as I hoped. Will you go public with the newest version of your tool?

Was it released already? You guys can call yourselves lucky 😦 It will be available here in 15 days and it will cost 29 Euros (cca 33 USD). Also the “Target Exclusive Extra 20 Minutes of Bonus Features” sound interesting, does Target have an e-shop which sends stuff to Europe?