screams in the void

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

Titan A.E. , The Running Man , Light Years aka Gandahar , anything by Ralph Bakshi , The cat from outer space

^ I live in Chicago , are you saying Chicago fans are toxic and Florida fans are not ? not sure what point you are trying to make here …

kind of difficult since Disney owns Lucasfilm .

^ but at least the prequels are watchable , right ?

Anakin Starkiller said:

The battle starts too suddenly. Let the scene linger in silence everyone behind the shields for a moment.

^I disagree , I think the very few seconds of the door unlocking at the beginning you did is very good

IsanRido said:

The only I can think of right now (I’m sure there are much worse):
A.P.E (1976).
Space Warriors 2000 (1985))
Magic Lizard (1985).
Curse of the Screaming Dead (1982).
Guinea Pig: Mermaid in a Manhole (1988).
Nekromantik (1987) .
Zombi Holocaust (1981).
Tintorera (1977).

^Mermaid in a manhole sounds like a bad porno movie

^ at the time I watched that episode of TCW , I thought the Priestesses were the Whills , who , as many know , were mentioned in the prologue to the original Star Wars novel and the saga referred to as the journal of the Whills . This concept made it into Rogue One in that The characters of Baze and Chirrut are guardians of the Whills .Chirrut even mentions " the force of others " which is a concept from early Lucas story outlines and drafts .

I’m pretty sure John Knoll came up with the idea …https://www.wired.com/2016/11/john-knoll-rogue-one-star-wars/

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