https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4caGtkt0fQ
I’m assuming this will have a dedicated thread in a short while, but boy is it exciting.
Looks great. Very nice color as well. And who better to depict that than our go-to rosy cheeked favorite soldier?
Officially endorsed by Harmy as 2.7, and distributed him. Rendered by me.
Thank you for clarifying. Why is v2.5 the one which is still widely available?
2.7 is pretty widely available. It’s available on myspleen, tehparadox, following the directions on Harmy’s facebook page, etc. I don’t know if it’s on public trackers, since such postings are never the work of the people around here and typically happen pretty long after initial release.
Hope Neverar reads this.
I’m sure it will be quite a very long time before he gets to RoTJ, assuming he doesn’t get burnt out by then. But I’ve seen about half of ANH with his grading, and I can say it’s very impressive that he got the color looking like he did. It looks like something that would be created with look up tables from one of the fancy Dre type apps using print scans to match it to, but as far as I know he just used manual color adjustment. I’m sure he can work wonders for Jedi as well, if he did so well with the bigger abomination of the 2011 ANH.
Officially endorsed by Harmy as 2.7, and distributed him. Rendered by me.
I’ve managed to upload the full movie to YouTube: https://youtu.be/_H5hfAzE-iI
There’s no telling how long it will be up, maybe weeks from now, days from now, or even only minutes from now, or maybe we’ll get lucky for it to be left up indefinitely, though I doubt that. Enjoy while you still can!
Somehow, they had the SSE up there for months. I think it might finally be down, though.
Here’s a comparison video of the Battle of Yavin between the DeEd, SSE, GOUT, and Blu-ray: https://youtu.be/hXVVwcMJCk8
I’ll try to have an ESB comparison up very soon and an ROTJ one either later today or tomorrow.
Looks like your footage stops too early for 3/4 of it.
This is one chunk of the film that I definitely like the SSE color for most shots, and for which I didn’t touch Harmy’s Technicolor look much at all. Though I personally prefer the more grey look of the Death Star (whether that’s the eastman look or the home video look or whatever it is, it’s what I’m used to), this seems to have been what Harmy was going for and to try to reverse it in all of the hundreds of quick individual shots would have been a disaster. (In fact, it was, I tried it! And I was terribly inconsistent).
Well if it’s an upscale, what’s the point?
Less compression and no MPEG2 artifacts. Lossless audio. Night of the Doctor (the only other televised 8th Doctor appearance). That’s about it. Probably not worth a rebuy for most, but a better product than the DVD.
Is the Blu-ray video encoded as clean progressive frames, no interlacing or field-blending?
I believe it’s the same as the PAL DVD master.
Because 25 fps is not a blu-ray standard (and they for some reason wanted to present it at 25), it’s 50i, which of course is a blu-ray standard. They most likely did what they did for Spearhead, “‘Spearhead’ was originally shot and edited at 25fps, as befits a UK television production, so was remastered at 25 progressive frames per second, or 25P as it is known colloquially. However, the Blu-ray standard doesn’t include 25P, so it is presented on Blu-ray at 50i (50 interlaced fields per second), which is the norm for this sort of material. As both fields originate from the same point in time (ie the same film frame), there is no real difference between 50i and 25P in this case.”
I haven’t read this whole thread. But I’m aware that some have claimed that there’s frame blending on every version released so far. Do we actually know this to be the case for the PAL SE DVD? Given that it’s simply a sped up version of the 24 fps film, it doesn’t need any frame blending (which is not to say they haven’t screwed with it anyway). The NTSC DVD of course is afflicted.
I’d be happy to check against an example frame from the PAL DVD if you have a time stamp and screenshot as example.
For what it’s worth, the SEI VUI fix doesn’t do it for every player. I believe it still has an issue on my PS4, but not my PS3 or other player.
Presumably when you say the disc has an issue, you don’t mean the disc in VLC (vs. the mounted ISO in VLC being fine)?
Well if it’s an upscale, what’s the point?
Less compression and no MPEG2 artifacts. Lossless audio. Night of the Doctor (the only other televised 8th Doctor appearance). That’s about it. Probably not worth a rebuy for most, but a better product than the DVD.
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In fact, it is usually against the rules to keep creating new accounts on trackers, and can often get you banned. Not sure why you thought creating 3+ accounts was a good idea.
A Layer Break is the point at which you switch from the first layer of the disc (the first ~24GB) to the second. It isn’t usually a huge issue with blu-rays, since the players buffer so much video ahead of where you’re currently viewing. It’s a much bigger issue for dual layer DVDs. But to answer your question, it would be related to the burning procedure (software, settings) and to some degree the player. Not sure if the media itself can affect this, unless the player is struggling to read it and not buffering properly?
It’s worth getting decent discs at some point anyway. Blu-rays, unlike DVDs and CDs, have an extremely thin plastic surface to read through before hitting the data layer ( http://s.hswstatic.com/gif/blu-ray-6.gif ), meaning that a tiny, shallow scratch can hit the data. Official discs have very good protective, anti-scratch coating on the surface for this reason. Verbatim discs have a different, but still very good, anti scratch protection. I don’t know if other brands copy the technique or use their own, but I’d be wary to trust a cheap brand.
I think we’ve seen enough of it and know enough about his sources and his methods to say that this is the best restoration of Star Wars anywhere.
After watching his videos, I don’t see how anybody could even argue that.
I think the main reason is that it doesn’t have any competition. Reliance and TN1 (as great as it is, it’s not really in the same tier from what we’ve seen).
It was a telecine, right?
I’ve only used Verbatim and had no issues. Have you tried the discs in more than one player? Could be a combination of bad discs and less than ideal player.
Honestly though, it’s pretty damn easy and inexpensive to get them off Usenet. If I could get all nine films, you certainly can.
I agree, though I’m not discouraging anyone from sharing them another way, of course! It’s not clear that myspleen will permit it, but they might. Once we get to the point where these are no longer on usenet I’ll probably get more involved in making sure they’re preserved.
As for the question of which software I used, SAB is the answer. Haven’t had any issues with it killing my computer or anything.
I can’t be doing with this usenet thing, it drains my computer processing power massively.
It certainly shouldn’t. It’s basically a protocol from the 1980s. If those computers could handle it, yours can. 😛
Is it just extremely fast downloading that is draining your resources? It certainly maxes out the internet connections I’ve tried it on more than other download sources. Try setting a download cap or just using a different program. Are you using SABnzbd?
Also, are the skin tones correct?
ALLOL
A lovely laugh out loud?
Now there are two of us
continuing this conversation for some reason.
That was my first guess!
I also read the OP.
It’s hard to tell how many layers there are to your sarcasm at times. Didn’t know if you were refusing to acknowledge the issues with the skin tones, or actually addressing the lack of discussion about them. I still don’t know.
Anyway, it was presumably referring to the sunburnt skin tones of the TPM blu-ray. The tones look fine in the DVD, as far as I know.
I see a bunch of answers, but none address the skin tones…
Because seriously that’s long been my main complaint about the PT.
What about the skin tones? My goal is to make all 7 movies match, so what would I need to specifically address to fix it in the PT?
I assume he’s being sarcastic. Frink doesn’t care much for discussion of color timing, nor the more subtle PT issues rather than the glaring ones.
It’s $3 for 3 days of usenetserver.com. I think that’s how most of us got them. I believe they even give you a free 1 day trial the first time you use them. 10 MB/s for me there.
Best of luck. I’m certainly not going to be uploading them anywhere while they’re still available by those means. If people are struggling to find these next year, we should make sure they’re preserved. But for now I think I’m just going to point my finger to where they are easily found. 😃
So where can I get these Sky HD caps?
The file names are listed a page or two back. They’ll be available on usenet for another year or so.
schorman13 said:
No, those are BD additions. Audio shouldn’t be a problem as I have the Theatrical DTS mix prepped already for this. The '05 DVD didn’t have any noticeable changes either, iirc.Does the theatrical mix have a longer “Nooooo” by Vader than the DVD/Bluray?
Nope. That was a weird rumor. Perhaps people got used to how crappy it was and/or it wasn’t as long as everyone jokes and memes about.
