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Harmy said:

Yeah, same goes for the Czech dub - in the original early 90s dub Greedo was dubbed into Czech and in the later 97SE dub he was subtitled. Now there a third brand new Czech dub on the BD, which apparently sucks ass because the actors they used don't sound anything like the original actors (Luke for example sounds like a 40 year old man and Han is dubbed by the same guy who dubbed Luke in the two previous dubs). Though the translation is probably much better. 

Also, and I brought this up before but it didn't spark the discussion I was hoping for, for the Czech BD release, they changed the Czech title of ROTJ taking "the Jedi" to be plural, so it basically now translates as "The Return of the Jedi Order".

Well you obviously haven't seen/heard the Slovak dub of the 1997 SE :-) All aliens (Greedo/Jabba) were speaking Hutteese, but there were NO subtitles at all :-)

Dammit, my collection didn't arrive yet :-(

It looks like you can't download from ulozto as a free user anymore :-(

Harmy said:

2K is nearly the same resolution as 1080p (2K=2048x1152 and 1080p=1920x1080) and it is the resolution most digital projectors in cinemas use, so the resolution shouldn't be a problem at all.

Funny, I ALWAYS thought that 2K means ~2000 lines, 4K means ~4000 lines etc :-)

Is the bottom video the cleaned up version ? Because I think it looks worse than the original in some places. What's that black "thing" on the sky in the shot where Luke runs up the stairs to the Tosche station ?

I can't wait till my Blus arrive :-)

Come on people, I hope you DO know the band ...

Cobra Kai said:

do people actually watch the SW movies dubbed?  just wondering...

Yes :-)

PAL VHS tapes are ALL interlaced. Not sure about NTSC unfortunately but I assume the same

Great pics. Is there a chance you will release also a version which will be not cropped at all ?

Season 1 is not out yet and they have already released a trailer for Season 2... http://tng.trekcore.com/bluray/#s2trail

It looks amazing, this is the first time ever I am REALLY looking forward to a BD set

Moth3r said:

Attack of the Clones wasn't released on laserdisc.

Hm...That's bad, was there at least a widescreen VHS ? My VHS is P&S

That's of course too on the bluray :-)

toho-scope said:

i would be interested in a modern LD transfer of the phantom menace

Me too. Both the Phantom Menace AND the Attack of the Clones (if somebody has it) :-)

Also, are any of your 1997 SE laserdiscs widescreen ? I think that these versions need proper preservations too

retartedted said:

Not sure why you are looking for tapes without Macrovision.  It is very very easy to copy tapes with it.

How ? Sorry for the offtopic, but I have a few Macrovision-protected VHS tapes which I want to digitize for myself, but I always end with an error message saying that Macrovision protected tapes cannot be transferred. I tried it with a standalone Samsung DVD recorder, and with an PC with a capture card

althor1138 said:

Fox sent me a nastygram over the youtube videos so I took them down just to avoid any trouble.  Just in case anybody was wondering why the links I posted don't work.

Any chance to upload it somewhere else ? Like mediafire etc. ?

ww12345 said:

Interesting. Never knew that.

 

 

This is EXACTLY the reason why these preservation projects exist

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18864409

Personally I want to see at home exactly the same movie which I could have seen in American movie theatres in 1977.

Harmy, one tip - would you mind using the end credits from the early versions of the movie ?

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Credits-Leaders-Thread-was-Star-Wars-Pre-Re-release-Credit-Change-June-77/topic/12960/

doubleofive said:

 

pittrek said:

The interesting thing is that all the remastered special effect shots are widescreen

I believe that ILM shot the effects for the pilot on widescreen film, as evidenced by the recreated credits seen on an early trailer:

http://picasaweb.google.com/102542760950977079734/TNGHD

You'll notice that the two "new" close ups are actually reuses from the shots from the credits, and the long shot is mostly CGI so they rendered it in 16:9 to match the others. The other preview shots (using effects NOT from the opening credits) have been cropped, as the Blu-ray is.

What still bugs me is that they rendered ALL the new TOSR shots in 16:9 for some reason.

 

I remember seeing the TOS footage widescreen but only in some promo pictures. Was the widescreen render actually used ?

The interesting thing is that all the remastered special effect shots are widescreen

There are new pics again : http://tng.trekcore.com/bluray/#comiccon

I absolutely love it :-)

Asaki said:

negative1 said:

haha, actually, the deleted scenes from the bluray are

interesting to me..

 Funny enough, I still haven't watched the deleted scenes...

Funny enough, the deleted scenes were the ONLY reason why I bought the BD set :-)

Those are exactly the reasons why I keep BOTH versions of TOS :-)