pittrek

Thanks for a lovely surprise.

The negative things :

• the aspect ratio seems to be slightly off, I think the image is slightly taller
• some of the scenes are much “noisier” than others. I think it’s because of the optical wipes, the scene gets noisy always before and after an optical wipe, after the next cut it gets cleaner. Do you plan to work on this ? Don’t get me wrong, I don’t REALLY think it’s a big problem, I’m just asking 😃

The positive things :

• colours are beautiful
• the detail in the dark areas - I don’t remember seeing some of that stuff since … probably never before
• nice amount of grain, it’s not distracting but at the same time the persons don’t look like wax figures

I love it, great job guys

Why does the trailer suggest CA will kill Iron Man ? I hope that’s not what the comics is about.

Meesa sorry

Tobar said:

pittrek said:

Clone Wars was for teens and adults, Rebels is for children. Unfortunately.

I think you should go back and watch the first couple seasons of the Clone Wars. Far more kiddy than Rebels has ever approached. It wasn’t until the later seasons that they got away from themselves with how dark it got. It was good but it wasn’t true to what the heart of the franchise is.

Rebels was designed from the ground up to emulate the same kind of adventure romp that Star Wars was. Now they’re slowly working their way toward an ESB vibe.

I mean we’ve seen countless deaths in CW, but I can’t remember one death from Rebels, even the Inquisitor’s death was only “hinted” and not shown

Countless Stormtroopers have bitten the dust at the hands of our heroes. Including that poor fellow who Kallus kicked to his doom off a cliff. Then there was the execution of those two officers by the order of Tarkin. This season has seen the loss of fighters and a frigate on the Rebel side.

But the second season ? I still haven’t seen an episode of the second season which I would consider to be at least “good”.

You didn’t consider the wrath of Darth Vader in the season opener good? Nor the epic clash between an outmatched AT-TE and an AT-AT? You must have some crazy standards.

Nope. I thought it was boring to be honest.

Clone Wars was for teens and adults, Rebels is for children. Unfortunately. I must admit I really liked the first season, even when I thought it’s not going far enough (I mean we’ve seen countless deaths in CW, but I can’t remember one death from Rebels, even the Inquisitor’s death was only “hinted” and not shown), the animation was too “disneyfied” and Ezra looked like Aladin, and Kanan looks like Shaggy from the Scooby Doo cartoons. But the second season ? I still haven’t seen an episode of the second season which I would consider to be at least “good”.

This is simply brilliant 😃 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW_xdftOspA

So … any reviews for Jessica Jones anybody ?

Danfun128 said:

Under normal circumstances I or someone else would put the Bunny there, but it wouldn’t be appropriate, would it?

Is that story true?

Yes and no. The truth is that the plane crashed and Roddenberry and the passangers survived. The question is how much was he responsible for their rescue, it really depends on who you ask.

It really depends on what software are you using. Years ago I used Mediachance DVDLab Pro, that one was capable of doing it.

The basic principles :

• you need one “main movie”
• every alternate / extended scene should be encoded as a separate movie
• the main movie must have I frames put into exactly the frames which you will use as “branching points”, so you must use a mpeg2 encoder which allows you to do this. If you don’t put the “branching points” on I-frames, the branching will not be 100% seamless
• The main movie has to be split into chapters correctly.
• the last step will have to be the correct playlists in your DVD authoring software, so each movie version will have its own playlist.

Episode 1 is stupid, I STILL have no clue what happened in that movie, it’s just a series of colourful moving images. But JW’s score is wonderful.

Episode 3 is horrible. Everything about it is horrible. The effects, the acting, the story, the editing… I have no idea how can anybody say it’s the best one, but I accept that people have different tastes. I mean I know quite intelligent people who like JJTrek and the Transformers movies 😃

Episode 2 is pretty dumb too, but to be honest it was the only prequel I enjoyed when I’ve seen it for the first time. It had some really great action ( I STILL love the arena sequence - at least before the other Jedi come there), but the story is not very well thought out and poorly executed. The Padme / Anakin storyline is just a wasted opportunity. Wouldn’t it be so much better if Lucas did something similar as Cameron did with his Kyle Reese / Sarah Connor storyline? The story is basically the same - a crazy killer wants to kill the hot chick, the soldier protects her and falls in love with her.

Anyway, all 3 movies are stupid, but Episode 2 has probably the best story.

So the new show probably explains why CBS didn’t want to pick up Renegades. And I thought it was because they thought Renegades sucked 😃

I wouldn’t be afraid of that. Each episode will be “available” within few hours. The thing which worries me is the showrunner - Alex Shortman 😦

Somebody fuck me !!!

http://www.startrek.com/article/new-star-trek-series-premieres-january-2017

Hey poita, is there a chance to get somehow your raw, untouched, uncorrected scans? Don’t you need a bunch of new hard drives or something?

I don’t want to see ANY spinoff movie. But I would love to see a new animated show called let’s say “Shadows of the Empire”, which would take place between Episodes 5 & 6. I know there’s a novel (which I never read - I never read any SW novel), but if it’s good I’d like to see it made into a show

ray_afraid said:

StarChewyWar said:

…Take the fact that most stormtroopers are human in The Force Awakens. Did the clones expire after a while?

The troops in the OT are human too. They all have different voices and heights.
I dunno what happened to the clones. I’m not into the PT or EU.

It was explained in Rebels, which is apparently canon.

Didn't he play his father in some of the fan shows?

So, another one classic Trek actor died? This time Lt. Kevin Riley, Bruce Hyde

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/star-trek-actor-bruce-hyde-dead-george-takei-leads-tributes-to-original-cast-member-a6701356.html

I have a dumb little technical question.

I have

- a cable connection

- 1 HDTV

- 1 external TV tuner (DVB-T/DVB-T2/DVB-C)

- 1 HTPC without monitor, connected to the HDTV

- 1 main PC (Windows 8.1) without any TV tuner

- several Android devices (tablets / smartphones)

- home wi-fi

I am searching for a way, how to "stream" the TV signal across any of the devices. E.g. I want to be able to watch TV either on my PC or any of the Android devices.

Any idea HOW?

Oh, the trailer...

Things I liked - the camera work. The sets. The costumes. The music.

Things I hated - the CGI ships. I don't know why but I think CG looks worse and worse in each movie (not just SW). The overall "feel" of the trailer - it "felt" like a random action movie.

The rest - I don't care about right now.

DVD-BOY said:

yotsuya said:

Harmy, I don't think they particularly cared about such a tiny data loss. The entire way they released it shows a complete lack of caring for quality. NTSC native resolution is 640x480, so they resized it anyway.

 Which NTSC tape format has a native resolution of 640x480? 

 He probably meant that 480 * (4/3) = 640

Really? I thought that since Episode 2 the OOT stormtroopers were the same clones created by the cartoon aliens.

I've just seen the second episode and I'm confused. So is Rebels canon? If so, does it mean that according to the current cannon the OOT stormtroopers are not clones anymore?

Possessed said:

i was afraid of that.

 Of what? The fact that Jetrell Fo wants to see the CGI test footage?

Again, Lowry didn't change the colors (I refuse to use the word "correct") - why do so many people think they had something to do with it ? - and they didn't scan it. They received the 1997 SE "negatives" scanned as a series of 1080p pictures.

Maybe this would be helpful ? http://web.archive.org/web/20140528152100/http://secrethistoryofstarwars.com/savingstarwars.html