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#541480
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STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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ray_afraid said:

(damned avatar changes!)

Yeah, I know what you mean. It confuses the heck out of me every time someone does that. But the Lego fad was over, so...

even when it's done mockingly it still annoys me. 

Good point. I'm not gonna edit the post, but I'll remember this for the future

So, I apologize, sir.

Apology accepted, Capta... I mean... Apology accepted.

You're no dick.

Thanks! :)

But in case anyone was questioning my gender, I do have one.

In other news, I am just as skeptical about Ady's PT, but eagerly await it nonetheless. I assume it will be out by the time I have grandchildren?

(Note: I'm not even married yet)

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#541462
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STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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...I hate to explain parody, because explaining jokes kills jokes, but it's apparently necessary.

I'm not saying the PT is worse than the Holocaust. I was parodying the extremes to which some people go when talking about the PT.  If you've never witnessed some of what goes on in General Star Wars Discussion... well, you won't get the joke, but you're probably better of having never seen it.

The Holocaust was a terrible tragedy and an evil act, right up there in the "Worst 10 Things People Ever Did" list (no, I don't have this list). The Prequels are not good movies, but obviously nothing at all like killing millions of people. I'm not sure why anyone would think I meant that, but there it is anyway - an explanation.

Please note that I was also parodying how much people love ESB and the endless thanks that gets poured out here (not that's it's not deserved). My biggest mistake, really, was the idea that we'd actually get 10 posts on topic.

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#541116
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Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released)
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In the strictest sense, a preservation of the GOUT would be a rip of the DVD, available online after GOUT discs are no longer available in stores. It would preserve the GOUT release for future viewing, and nothing more. By that very, very strict definition of a preservation, V3 is not a preservation, because it is not an exact copy of the GOUT. It has been resized/cropped so as to appear correctly on widescreen TVs, and the colors have been fixed. Now, I think we all agree that this was a really great idea, because it puts the GOUT looking a whole lot more like the theatrical version, as it should, but it doesn't meet the strictest possibly definition of a preservation.

Thankfully, we're not using that strict of a definition of "preservation" on this forum.

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#541104
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Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released)
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TV's Frink said:

This isn't a preservation project?  It's in the wrong forum if that's the case.

Depends on how you define preservation. Harmy's DEs don't preserve any particular release of the films literally, but they intend to do their best to preserve the content of the original versions in the highest quality they can. It's exactly what most people want in a preservation, even if it isn't really a preservation.

Of course, I guess you could also say that DJ's not preserving any particular release of the films as he's editing the GOUT... from a certain point of view.

Perhaps Harmy's work, as well as Hairy Hen's, are best described as "Recreations".

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#541091
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Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released)
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For the average person (ie not someone who cares about matte lines) visiting this forum for the first time, both DJ's and Harmy's work seem like good options, because they want the original trilogy and they're told those two are the best. They're told to check out both, so a comparison is inevitable. But for those people, Harmy's will probably win, because it's inherently higher resolution (finer detail).

And then they'll say so, because they don't understand the different goals. And then DJ will post, and then Harmy will agree.

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#540573
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Free &quot;farewell&quot; Screening of 1977 Star Wars collector's print (British I.B. Technicolor)
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Just wanted to draw attention to this...

My friend Peter, who was also at the screening and whose photos have been featured on savestarwars.com, just got around to uploading his videos from the screening. He, himself, points out that there are a million problems with them, but so it goes. I'm not sure if they're at all useful, though maybe the entrance into Mos Eisley could help Harmy, and they do a nice job of demonstrating, once again, the quality of the IB print, but they're at least plenty enjoyable for the crowd reactions in certain places. Anyways, they'rre on pages 3 and 4 of his gallery. This link should start you off, I think? http://photos.petergaultney.com/Movies/historic/Star-Wars-at-The-Senator/13089279_chpNjq#948713561_WKZxo

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#540157
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Info &amp; Ideas: ESB and ROTJ Wishlist
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There's never been any problem with Lando being in the palace without an entrance-explanation-scene. Now, true, he wasn't nearly as talkative as Threepio, but I don't see why Threepio can't be pretending to be any old droid working as Jabba's translator. Similarly, when Artoo turns up on the barge, he's undercover. Luke's holomessage to Jabba isn't even necessary.