yoda-sama

BTW, I know where you’re coming from, I did this myself once, too, though not as bad. I had (well, still have) an older Onkyo theater in a box (audio receiver mostly, no HDMI) which actually had some pretty nice speakers (6 or 8 ohm, not sure which), but had a passive sub, when I got a new receiver for the living room I ordered a full 7.1 surround Onkyo speaker set just to get the sub and have spare speakers in case I blow out any… but then ended up using the new surround speakers with the old Onkyo receiver and its passive sub in another room as my 3rd surround setup (simpler needs in that room). Anyway, I had less I needed to replace, but was still faced with a dilemma when I figured out I got screwed on the passive subwoofer.

Again, I don’t mean that you just get extra thump (actually, it is a little easier to limit, as the powered sub will probably have a dial on it to control its output independently), you’ll get richer, clearer, more proper sound with a better setup, and possibly better speakers… At the very least, you’d need a new subwoofer and a new AVR, you can wait on the speakers if you must as long as you get an AVR that supports the impedance (though, many subs will run you as much as the full Onkyo set I linked to earlier). If you’re not getting rid of the system, I think you already know you can just plug the current player/receiver into the new receiver, it should passthrough over HDMI just fine.

If you feel it’d be easiest to get something all together, Onkyo tends to package proper speakers and subwoofers with their various receiver / surround speaker offerings, as they usually consist of models they also sell separately.

Whatever receiver brand you decide works best for you, though (I’ve had some issues with Onkyo receivers here and there, and all Yamahas annoy me by choosing to not indicate the decoding method on its display), you’ll need decent speakers and I HAVE had good luck at reasonable prices with Onkyo surround speakers / subwoofer offerings. You can free yourself up to shop around on the receiver, if you grab some affordable speakers like this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/ONKYO-SKS-HT528B-5-1-Speaker-Package/dp/B002LVU95W/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1455649941&sr=1-1&keywords=onkyo+speakers

Oh good, DreadPirateJosh seems to be on top of what I was going to contribute, that being the subwoofer is the biggest factor of whether you can just drop in a proper receiver. With a passive subwoofer like you get on budget home-theater-in-a-box setups, you really can’t just reuse them, as good receivers send signals to the subwoofer through a preamp, which means you’d need a powered subwoofer. And budget home-theater-in-a-box setups, as he said, also have different impedance for the speakers than is optimally supported by good receivers. A friend of mine with lots of time on his hands used to pick up these kinds of systems for cheap on ebay (these cheapo sets usually have sub par chips that overload, and he’d solder in new ones), fix them up and cheaply sell to friends or give them away… Only real problem was that they didn’t sound anywhere near as good as he felt they were; very muddled, lots of distortion, and really no EQ control in the crappy all-in-one “receivers”. I have 3 proper receivers and surround setups in various rooms of my house, and the clarity is night and day compared to the various home-theater-in-a-box setups I’ve experienced from him and others.

I’ve even turned down accepting free speakers of this kind of quality for those very reasons, it wouldn’t be worth the hassle. It might be for the best to just sell off this set and put some money into a better all around setup. It’d likely be less headache in the end, and the sound quality would likely yield a noticeable improvement.

The speakers and everything look nice on the outside, but they’re really not up to par with what they’re pretending to be…

towne32 said:

Thanks. It’s a project. I’ve made a lot of special modifications myself since the last render, but if you’d like to look at the next one, feedback would be appreciated. Thanks to chyron8472 for all the feedback he has given already.

Sure, count me in.

towne32 said:

I also edited many of the strongly yellow/green shots by hand: http://imgur.com/a/adIa1 Note in this case that the shots preparing for the battle of Yavin are off (Luke is blue in the first, and the next two are kind of red) as these are old sample images. I have fixed it to be more neutral.

Your take on the colors is pretty intriguing. I’d give it a watch if you made an actual project out of it. Though I’m also intrigued by what all Harmy is saying about his collaboration on future colors. It is all very exciting.

Oh my dear Lord… I thought that the Blu-ray had just awkwardly made the Ewoks blink, but looking at the comparison shots, for the love of God it gets far creepier than that… They went as far as giving the Ewoks pupils and irises… God it is creepy.

So glad I don’t have to suffer watching it that way. Thanks Harmy!

What is wrong with Justin Bieber ending a tour? I’d think we’d all want that…

Also, ditto everything in towne32’s post above.

gltaylor74 said:

djchaseb said:

Becas said:

Great, and somehow this isn’t deemed important enough to be anounced before people start downloading. Now I have a mixed bag of sets… what is the best aproach now to solve this.

Stop downloading .rars and grab a torrent. Do you need a spleen invite?

I could use a spleen invite is someone would be so kind. Thanks.

Oh don’t go rewarding his whining with a spleen invite, what are the odds he’ll be a constructive member of that community when he is going out of his way not to get along here? Let him (easily) find a public torrent, or redownload the rars correctly this time, it isn’t like he is starved for options this long after the release.

moler said:

Hi rar part 1 is missing from STAR WARS Episode IV A New Hope mkv. can anyone provide that pls?

Maybe once you do watch it, you’ll realize there’s no such thing as “Episode IV A New Hope”.

Clutchins, you’re not supposed to display the link in your quote. Let’s not let this spread through carelessness.

Wario64I said:

Edit: There, it aint a link anymore

You know better than that. We joke a lot here, but not about this. Take it down properly. (We know you’re excited, and you can say that it is hosted in places you like, just don’t show how to get to it directly.)

Indeed, first complaining too much about the sanctioned distribution methods, then getting over enthusiastic for public trackers, now breaking the rules and posting direct links to the files. Seriously rein in your misguided enthusiasm and take that link down before an admin makes you sorry for doing it. Doing this crap puts the entire site in a compromised position.

Thanks, I’ll just wipe out what I have then. What an odd choice for a release… I’m baffled as to what the point was supposed to be.

Okay, so no one knows for sure how the Harmy/Grindhouse version of ESB got to where it is? Glad I’m not alone in being confused by it.

What I’m really wanting is to find the most watchable film scan version of ESB (as a companion piece to Harmy’s version). I liked that the Harmy/Grindhouse version was GOUT synced and colored better than Grindhouse, but I have no idea what the film source is, as it would have to have gone through some radical clean up to look like it does if it was from Grindhouse. If it is not Grindhouse sourced, but just a mucked with Harmy v2.0, then I don’t want to bother with getting the larger version (nor keep the smaller version I grabbed already to check), when I already have Harmy’s version, which I’d appreciate more.

damx said:

This "To download, search for the CRC32 checksum. " has really puzzled me . Can anyone help?

Thanks

To keep Frink from saying worse… There may be no helping you.

(Okay, fine, one helpful hint. That download suggestion is very, VERY literal. Just do exactly what it says, however it is that you search for things on the internet that you might want to find…)

I never really took much notice before of the Jabba relief/mural on his sail barge at 00:32:12. Interesting detail.

And yes, anamorphic doesn’t just mean “no black bars” it is about stretching a condensed image to the proper aspect. In film certain lenses take what would otherwise be a taller than intended image and stretches them to be wider, as intended. In the world of DVD they altered the meaning a little to be that an image taking up 720x480 would stretch to fit a 16x9 screen and look proper, basically giving more real estate to take advantage of in the same image spec.

REPORT-ROTJ-v2.5
01:04:41 - 01:04:54
Extreme green halos around trooper armor. What is the cause/source of this?

No, I’m pretty sure he was saying your colors were almost perfect to him and he didn’t change much. So, it is something else than that. It actually looks pretty good… too good.

I have an ESB question, but not 100% about despecialized. On the spleen I noticed a GOUT synced version of Empire that is supposed to be some sort of combination of Harmy’s color correction and the TN1 Grindhouse version. Does anyone know what EXACTLY that consists of? It wasn’t clear to me in the comments about it whether it was 100% Grindhouse video with Harmy’s color timing, or if it is more of a mixture of the two versions than that, as it seems quite clean compared to what I expected Grindhouse to look like. Anyone know anything about this version?

I’d be more into that design if the spine had a more standard Star Wars logo/font.

Kodi on Linux, when transitioning from credits to despecialized credits in Jedi v2.5, appears like the despecialized credits render badly at first, but clears up quickly. You can see like a shadow of the credits moving before the credits pop into existence. I have no issues skipping around, though.

The despecialized credits don’t seem to render correctly at first, but it clears up before they first make it off the screen, so no biggie.

mheath182 said:

TV’s Frink said:

mheath182 said:

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE…when will you release it???

If there’s any way to stop this guy from getting a copy, I’ll endorse it.

Excuse me! Thanks for the welcome. I’m only asking as 3 days ago it was said it would released Sunday (today). I’m just asking when that might be as I’m not online all the time to see any announcements!!

LOL, I’m in until he can take a joke.