screams in the void

^ yeah , that looks even more like what I was thinking of in my mind’s eye .Good find .

and thank you for bringing up Mr.1B …it inspired my latest artwork which you can see by clicking on my sig if you like

https://clickamericana.com/eras/1950s/now-hear-this-drive-in-movie-theater-speakers

^ 2-1B’s mouth always reminded me of a vintage drive in movie speaker

and both lifted it from the RAF…https://kotaku.com/the-star-wars-costume-thats-recycled-from-a-doctor-who-1571401648

Dirge said:

Star Destroyer Halloween Test Drive:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfaCPcYHAAQ

That is awesome , I wish I would have had something like that as a kid . would have been over the moon with joy and had hours and days of fun

oojason said:

^ IIRC he was like that about a great many films (and the sci-fi & fantasy genre in general did have issues with it being looked down upon by quite an upper-class / snobbish BBC at times back then).

 

‘Has Star Wars “lost its magic”?’ - by HelloGreedo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEhsitrNzaM

 

‘LEGO Star Wars: All-Stars’ info (a new short animated tv series):-

https://www.starwars.com/news/lego-star-wars-all-stars & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vNXYyxUFhQ

 

^ guess they forgot about their own Doctor Who 😃

^ I enjoyed this and it was a real treat seeing behind the scenes stuff and interviews that I have never seen before . It was great up until about 16 minutes and 45 seconds , and then the host comes off as a snobbish , pompous ass . I mean , wow , he invites Gary Kurtz and Mark Hamill on his show and then proceeds to slam the movie for what he thinks is a weak story , and then provides examples of what he thinks are films with "superior " storytelling . Seems like a dickish move to me . thank you for sharing though , the first 16 minutes and 45 seconds were great .

^ yeah , that is why I said that I would like to see a more concise example . OLED is pretty awesome , a friend of mine has one , that is not what I am interested in though , but thank you for the info .

this is kind of what I am looking for by way of comparison of crt vs lcd display , although , I would like to see a more concise example , this is the closest I have found so far and the black levels and overall picture on the crt in this video look superior to me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5a5kZLvd1w

NextLevelArms said:

Nice

^ Really ? you signed up just to make that comment ? Troll , sock or bot ?

maybe that is another reason I like vhs on a crt …vhs was made with crt displays in mind as those were pretty much all that was available at the time

^ me too , though I admit nostalgia plays a factor for me . That and I found an old 13 inch tv/vcr combo at a Goodwill for five bucks about seven years ago and started collecting vhs tapes because of it .Then my neighbor moved out and gave me about 100 or so tapes , some still in the shrink wrap . I also like to collect the hard plastic clamshell vhs movies from the early 80’s ( I have the first two Rambo movies like this ) as well as box sets . I have come to like the softer look of them .

^ thanks for the response ,I suspected as much , I have seen a lot of videos where gamers swear by crt displays as superior due to the rich deep blacks and other things you mention . I wish they would have put the Star Wars films on D-theatre VHS which was a short lived format that had HD VHS tapes …https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiu0LPeLQPE I would track one down if they did .

it’s like the behavior of a dog , pissing on every fire hydrant it comes across in order to mark it’s territory

I have always wondered how the display you watch movies on effects the quality of what you are viewing . Say you have a very cheap , low quality lcd tv and a cheap ,low quality blu ray player , and then you have a very high end Crt Tv and a high end vcr …which is the better viewing experience ? I would like to see a side by side comparison of this some time .I have a Samsung Slimfit 38 inch widescreen HD crt tv from the mid 2000’s that has hdmi outputs as well as a 60 inch LG smart tv and to me , the crt looks better .I would like to take pics to compare but I do not have a camera that is up to the task . I have also thought about ( just for fun ) taking my old Sanyo 4x3 16 inch crt from 1997 and hooking an av to hdmi converter to it to see how it looks .anyway , I would be interested to hear peoples meaningful thoughts on this

I have HDADD…I don’t always pay attention , but when I do , It’s incredibly clear .

^ I meant they were not in HD in there original theatrical run , not the kind of HD we have today . The picture was clear and sharp , but they also had scratches and film grain

I would like to see the finished 35mm preservations some time

I prefer the 92 vhs box set over the 95 faces vhs set , I am not a fan of the blue tie fighter lasers in the asteroid chase

screams in the void said:

my 92 widescreen vhs box set trilogy also looks awesome on my Samsung slimfit widescreen 38 inch crt tv , via my panasonic hi-fi 4 head vcr , no zoom feature needed

^and I am not trying to be snarky or ironic here , this is my preferred way to watch the movies

Jedi Ttalp said:

LordZerome1080 said:

While this does solve the anamorphic problem it doesn’t solve the motion blur but at least it looks nice when played in a Blu Ray player.

True but that was never a major issue for me just like i don’t mind the scratches and dirt on the Grindhouse versions though they do annoy most of my friends for some reason.

^I am in agreement here …the movies I saw in 77,80,and 83 had some scratches and grain on them and were not in HD in the theatre

you play your vhs through a blu ray player ? you are a very special individual

my 92 widescreen vhs box set trilogy also looks awesome on my Samsung slimfit widescreen 38 inch crt tv , via my panasonic hi-fi 4 head vcr , no zoom feature needed

“I knew at the beginning that I was not doing science fiction. I was doing a space opera, a fantasy film, a mythological piece, a fairy tale. I really thought I needed to establish from the start that this was a completely made up world so that I could do anything I wanted.”
-George Lucas from Star Wars the annotated screenplays by Laurent Bouzereau