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Under "User Control Panel > Edit Options" there's a box for "miscellaneous options" near the bottom. Here you can choose between three levels of Quick Reply box : plain, advanced, and full (or something like that). If you choose "Full WYSIWYG Editing", you'll have all the controls available...

Honestly, I don't care what George Lucas thinks. The films which were released to theatres beginning in 1977, which garnered a certain amount of critical acclaim and a great deal of revenue, including repetitive ticket purchases by people who were enthralled by what they saw and heard, are...

Subtitles were added. "Extra noise reduction and smearing" were not. The chroma channels would have had to be low-pass filtered for composite conversion, but other than that it is a surprisingly clean process. As a matter of fact, the sampling frequency of D2 Composite Digital Video is greater...

Not to derail the discussion, but LaserDisc did have the capability for "player-generated" subtitles. It just wasn't used very much. Since the LD Digital Audio track is simply a CD-Audio stream, it contains all the "extra" data packets a CD does, including the "CD Graphiics" subcodes. These...

Actually, it was asked. The answer was "yes".

Actually, it's not a case of defining success by making money. I said "cannot be sold", because it's definitely unlawful to sell such a product, but distributing it at all is extremely questionable. Sale is a method of distribution which doesn't impose any additional burden on the creators...

Am I advocating any of this? No. Never posted anything I thought would imply that I was. Quite frankly, I consider things like the X0 Project a waste of time, at least as far as regards their intended purpose, creating a product which (as has been pointed out) cannot lawfully be sold. As an...

It's worth being clear about this. The X0 Project transfers do have a chance to look much better than these DVDs, and than just about every fan transfer, because just about every fan transfer has used the Definitive Collection LaserDiscs, which were made from the same D1 tapes used for these...

I have been working on the assumption that these releases are simply LucasFilm's answer to the DVD-makers. "You said that you wouldn't be doing this if we provided them in a legitimate channel, so we're going to give you something no better than the ones you've been making, and package it so...

The "Definitive Collection" video transfers, let it be said, do not represent the best video transfers made for LaserDisc. They are on D1 component tape, which is matched to DVD in pixel-format, making a DVD copy somewhat cleaner (excluding compression artefacts) than one which has been...

Wel,, the THX mastering had some things going for it. There was tighter control on video level tolerances, and so forth. Didn't help a bit, though, if the source was bad, just as Sony DADC's digital mastering, which really did produce nice pictures, didn't help when their discs all rotted...

I was just watching a VHS tape tonight, of a widescreeen programme which I zoomed to fit the HDTV screen, and it wasn't intolerably bad. This was an off-air VHS-SP recording, though, being played back on the deck which recorded it, not a commercial long-playing thermomagnetic contact print, and...

Thomas Edison's deafness resulted in ever-deteriorating sound quality on Edison audio recordings, since he insisted on doing the final quality-control check himself, and as his hearing grew ever-more distorted he distorted the recordings to compensate, often using quite complicated modifications...

I suppose that the feeling is that, since Mr. Lucas' commercial and financial success arises from these three films, and particularly the first one, that he deserves to be deprived of a part of that for his refusal to treat them with respect. Of course, seldom does anyone get what he deserves!

Yeah, you can get "educational model" players, bargain basement models with one-side play, no digital outputs or S-video, and no frame memory [=special effects on CLV titles] for that much from various vendors. Good players are still high — something nice like a CLD-D704 can set you back 200 or...

If you have a LaserDisc player already, why not? You can get Star Wars widescreen LDs for ten bucks or so. If you don't have a player, you can get a brand new one on eBay for ten or twenty. Now, the rebate, that makes it a better deal to get the DVDs. If it's a question of $90 or $50 for close...

Mr. Kaiser : Thank you for the kind reply. So FBAS = CVBS, just as I thought. No confusion, just curiosity. I'm a technically-minded individual who has, as I type this, a monochrome NTSC video camera running, an old plumbicon model. There's a 1-inch VTR in the next room that I'm supposed to...

Just a quick question : is "FBAS" German for "CVBS" [Colour, Video, Blanking, Sync]? I was scratching my head over that acronym [we ordinarily just say "composite video" and have done], but I guessed that B might be for Bild.

I would be tempted to say that it beggars imagination that Mr. Lucas would have destroyed all of the copies of the films-as-they-did-exist which he could lay hands upon, including the colour-separation elements he is reputed to have had made [although I understand that such things sometimes are...