towne32

Not really.

First of all, I think there's a good chance they will release it. If they don't, it will likely be due to the fact that they're unable to, rather than unwilling.

But even if Disney makes the decision to never release the unaltered trilogy, it has nothing to do with the people making VII, and it remains separate from my desire to see the new film. So far, I'm interested. That may change over the next year, who knows.

I'm not sure if you're proposing an actual boycott. The film is going to be massively successful, financially, either way. I can understand not buying a 'complete' blu ray set that includes the Special Editions, though. If you're interested in boycotts, I recall a very silly thread where people proposed buying and returning blu rays. Worth reading for a laugh.

pittrek said:

Is there any chance it could be uploaded to a different tracker? Yesterday it didn't move a bit and now I get a weird error message - "Trying to seed yourself?" - WTF?

 Hope you get it working. There are 70+ seeders so you should be able to get it at whatever your max speed is (7 MB/s was fine). I used qbtorrent as well. Perhaps firewall/port problems are to blame.

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Any particular scene, Harmy?

I hadn't caught the final image before the site went down.

I did, however, watch the ESB rough cut. It looks fantastic. Can't wait to see the final product from the best reels, with cleanup and all. Really surpassed my expectations even at this stage.

Dennis said:

 That makes no sense.

Also, I'm pretty sure you aren't allowed to post those here.

"It said that this user has reached their private message limit, I'm not too sure if that means me or him"

 What???

tehparadox has manifested itself as a single person now, who supplies everyone with the best files?

Any chance for a comparison shot of the Mos Eisley scene (from various prints) generously donated to Harmy for his Despecialized 2.1+? The low fade color was good, but it seems quite possible that some of your other prints are even better?

team_negative1 said:

16 of ?

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Team Negative1

 of 1138?

Funcha said:

C'mon, now my whole project is RUINED! Lol. Can easily replace Redux with some other adjective. At the rate things are going, this is essentially going to be vaporware with the exception of the approximately 3 people who have seen it. Still haven't gotten around to having someone do disk and cover art. :(

 :(

Still very much looking forward to it. Hopefully you can recruit an artist. 

Stay in milk, drink your drugs, and don't do school. 

kk650 said:

The Empire Strikes Back is now on myspleen.

Return of the Jedi should be coming in the next few days, then i'll create playable AVCHD versions of all three with chapters and selectible subtitles for those that want to write these onto a dvd-9 and watch these releases straight off their players with as little fuss as possible.

Sounds great. And then the 16 gb 'retro' versions?

Feallan said:

AntcuFaalb said:

Harmy said:

Well, these are not so bad

True. I think I read comments too often and expect too much out of people. :-/

 

Whenever DeEds, or OUT in general is mentioned outside of this community, you have:

 Also, assuming you are talking about the comments on yahoo, you're pretty much looking at the bottom of the intelligence barrel on the internet, aside from Fox News comment sections.

Regarding the screenshot comparisons, I've looked on two different monitors now, and I'm not 100% sure I can see the difference. But if I can, I don't have a preference either way. :)

Yep, still voting for classic first.

Based on previous settings I think I'll vote for classic.

Which RoTJ ending are you using? If you do both, will that be 6 versions of RoTJ (at both 9 and 16gb)?!

Love the collaboration. The world needs more of it.

Airwave said:

The fixed version is now on MySpleen.

 And I think the old one is gone, to eliminate confusion. Either way, the description makes it clear.

Harmy said:

What? Well, v2.5 will probably be released eventually but not any time soon. First I want to do Jedi.

 Sounds great!

And that is actually why I stopped by the thread. The newsletter almost made it sound like V 2.0 is almost a temporary version, with 2.5 on its way soon.

poita said:

towne32 said:

kk650 said:

@_,,,^..^,,,_ : I've had a look at all three versions of Star Wars and yes I was right, the retro release is the one that looks most similar to your screencaps.

@Octorox: There is a blanket green tint over ROTS, its pretty subtle though so i'm not surprised that most don't notice it. Annoyingly it seems that imageshack has deleted all my comparison shots, i'll see whether I have the ROTS ones still lying around on my harddisk still.

 Do you know if that green tint was there in the theatrical version? If it's slight, that may be a hard thing to figure out. Wonder if there were DVD screening copies floating around back then.

 There is a 35mm print of ROTS up for sale at the moment if you want to know for sure :)

 Personally, I think I would be okay dying mildly curious about that. :P

But I hope a generous person does end up buying it.

TV's Frink said:

Are you ever going to make your own thread about what you want to see?

And make it that easy to avoid reading another rant about lightsaber color? You've got to sneak it into the middle of other comments to get people to read it!

timdiggerm said:

Harmy said:

Yeah, I guess the consistency isn't 100% but I'd say it's good enough now.

Oh, BTW, I got a green light from Team Negative 1 to say that the 35mm scans come from them. So, thanks Team Negative 1 - without you, the quality of this edit would be much lower, because those shots were the most obvious despecializations in there :-)

 Aaah.

Not only does this ruin my poita theory, but it ruins the old theories that Ream -1 doesn't really have any prints, they're making it all up.

Excellent!

 But wasn't that nonsense disproven when Harmy used their Mos Eisley sequence in Star Wars?

Unless people were suggesting that they had 35mm copies of the first film and were faking the rest? Also, can you imagine the amount of work they would have to put into adding digital damage to the blu-rays for all their previews? Hah. Sorry for off topic (though it's slightly on topic in that Harmy makes great early use of -1's material).

I think he expressed interest in using that site in the future. Even if he doesn't, I'll be happy to re-host myself, or someone else can. But I won't be grabbing every version of every title. And I don't have the prequels.

I agree that the upload sites disagree with my internet. But I managed to get his V1s after a little bit of persistence. 

Anchorhead said:

Verboten said:

 ... that the Empire is still around 30 years after Jedi, just seems stupid.

 Enemies or peoples with different ideals don't automatically cease to exist after being dealt a blow in warfare. 

North Korea is still a functioning country (and threat) 61 years after the end of the Korean War.  Japan and Russia, among others, are also fully functioning nations and people 70 years after WWII.  The Cold War also.

I think it's completely plausible that factions of the Empire would still be operating after Return.  Mild threat, an uneasy peace, occasional terrorism, etc.  That, to me, is another area where Zahn handled the sequels perfectly. The Empire isn't gone.  It's just weak and angry.

 I don't know how well standard storm troopers fit into that model, though. They're great as the sort of disposable, infinitely numbered drones of an enormous, sprawling empire. A smaller, more elite class for a weakened, angry, empire will be more appropriate. 

Anchorhead said:

I'd be completely ok with that.  If James Bond, Kirk, Spock, Bones, Scotty, Doctor Who, Marshal Cogburn, and Batman can be so expertly recast - so can Luke, Han, And Leia.

 Wouldn't bother me much for the spinoffs, as I don't really have any preconceptions or incredible expectations for those anyway. But I hope they keep it out of the main series.

Him leaving for the US was just tabloid nonsense as far as I know.