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Except that's exactly how he knew to test him. He felt the great disturbance, the vergence, whatever--and then tested the boy to quantify JUST HOW BIG IT WAS since that was the bureaucratic nature of the Jedi at that time--they went so far as to discover how to MEASURE force-potentiality...

I don't quite know what that means. Most things think of Ogre? Or most things make you think of Ogre? There is something mildly chilling in the concept of both statements, that Ogre could attain such importance in both the animal kingdom and your own personal life. Is Ogre really our new...

Wow. 2006 in the OT on DVD thread and it's the midichlorian debate once again. This is a simple as it really needs to be: The radio isn't the radio waves. The midichlorians aren't the force. The radio RECIEVES the radio waves The midichlorians HELP CHANNEL the force. What is...

I dunno. I've got 20 years of history that says these things are NEVER out of print. They're ALWAYS being re-released. Even when he says they're not. If I gotta wait another 10 years before he dumps these on people again because he needs another gimmick in order to sell us the same 3 frigging...

or in the manner befitting the quality of his company's previous output. I prefer things to not be crap. Why not? Last year you could have asked "Do you really think George is really going to release the originals if he hasn't since 1995?" Hell, he's created a hole with this...

Hey Paul. You never cease to amaze me with at least one "WTF" moment a month :) I don't get this reasoning at all. If it's a pre-emptive strike for something they're gonna be bitching about not getting next year--how does STILL NOT GETTING IT NEXT YEAR make everything better? No part of that...

Hey, if it gives you a great big passive aggressive boner to think that, then more power to you. But it's bullshit. And I don't remember when you crossed over from regular poster to insipid troll, but cut the shit please, thank you. The fact you even tried to clown Tim is silliness. Dude BUILT A...

But dude--that would probably be the case whether WE BOUGHT THIS OR NOT. That's what I'm saying. We're going in circles, basically, so that'll be my last on it (applause from the peanut gallery)

Then why are they buying it now? See, Lee, what I'm saying is that Lucas doesn't NEED an excuse not to release the originals again. You've convinced yourself you're playing some strange psychological end game via dvd purchases and that at the end of the game, if enough people play it your...

But see, this is the false dichotomy I see there--he's going to keep re-releasing these. We know he is. He's already been pushed by his Marketing Department to relent and FINALLY release the Originals. Why? Because he's running out of "new" ways to re-sell the same 3 movies. And yet he HAS to...

Here's the problem with that line of thought, Lee: There's no proof it WORKS with Lucasfilm. None at all. There's not an ounce of proof that buying product from lucasfilm is a guarantee you'll get better product from Lucasfilm down the line. Better product that you still have to pay for...

still bullshit, because I'm not getting that ultimate box set for free. If it was a return on my investment, then I wouldn't have to be coughing up 100 plus dollars for what I really wanted to buy in the first place when I dumped 50 bucks on the subpar product the year prior. THAT is the...

No, it's not. The idea of purchasing goods as if you're investing in something that will bring you greater returns later is silly, to me. They're DVD's, not stock options. Also, Dave and Ric, I believe the answers to that were posted in here earlier in the thread--I could be confusing it...

I am a benevolent man and I begrudge you all nothing :) (sky splits, a single sunbeam encircles my head, angels sing and birds twitter) Go forth, and sully your souls with this sub-par product sold at too-high prices. I will not pass judgment, and will not berate or shame shame with my...

It's hard to say. I know you're one of the few people I've seen that's also noticed that--I have problems watching TPM sometimes BECAUSE the whole thing looks like it was shot through a pink taffeta filter, honestly. Gives everything this sort of light-mauvish cast. I didn't remember that in the...

Again, arguing about the legality of this is beside the point. I didn't introduce the subject of fan-projects in order to have the same old arguments about legality and morality, and steering the discussion in that direction is deflection. The reason it was brought up was to show that Lucasfilm...

Whoa, hey, no delusions on my end. They all know that legally, they're in the wrong. Some of them try to justify it with the "I can own a legal backup of my LD's" but most of them really do know they're not doing something legal by distributing their fan-jobs. I think the reason the word...

almost all the fan transfers that are available aren't for sale, either. They're disseminated for free, typically. Also, thanks JayHM and ChrisDAC for clarifying points about the fan-jobs I was talking about earlier. Again, I want to point out--I'm not ADVOCATING you go out and purchase...

Because it wouldn't cost millions? There's plenty of posts near the beginning of this thread that paint a pretty plausible picture as to what costs would be incurred in order to get a new transfer struck from film elements that are readily available. The number never neared ONE million, if I...

While people DO vastly overestimate the size of Lucasfilm, and I mean VASTLY in most cases, technically they CAN be considered a multi-billion dollar company. Star Wars has earned over 12 billion dollars in merchandising since 1977, and that doesn't count monies earned from other Lucasfilm...

Yunno what sucks? After finding out about all the fixes, non-fixes, bloopers, gaffes and all that--whenever I see a picture of the Emperor from Return of the Jedi, the first thing I do is look at the upper right left side of his hood to see if that SLUG is there.

Only because the contrast was boosted. I've looked at my old copies, and remember this whole brouhaha very well from 2 years ago. When I turn down the contrast on my existing VHS copies of the OT--the exact same problems occur. I imagine on SOME shots it's a little exacerbated by the color...

Well, that's not a CG fix, that's why they omitted it. As has been pointed out before, if you turn the contrast down on your old LD's or VHS tapes--that pink lightsaber shows right up. It was always there. Same with the criss-cross cores in ROTJ. Those mistakes were hidden by the overbright...

You think those guys didn't account for that? ;) The audio isn't compromised. They layered the PCM track from the NTSC laserdisc over the PAL to NTSC video. Increased resolution, anamorphic to boot, and PCM audio. Basically, you wouldn't have to see if you can get something decent out of...

Well, as far as the "I wanna see if I can fake anamorphic the things." There's already a fan-made job that used the 95 PAL LD's, captured them, made it anamorphic and converted it to NTSC--thus capturing the extra resolution from the PAL transfer and maximizing it for the NTSC anamorphic...

I think it IS true. That Editdroid fan-made transfer is about what, 4 years old? 3 maybe? Something like that, I think. A 3 year old fan transfer, with seamless branching re-created opening scroll, isolated score all on a single layer disc has essentially THE SAME PQ (difference is small to...

And another:

Another official bootleg screencap vs a fan made LD transfer (The Editdroid transfer) Which is which.

It's Jones. One of the more interesting tidbits that came out of a recent interview with Ben Burtt is that the line they used was an outtake from A New Hope.

I wanna know how many people, after reading that description, actually SAID THE LINE THROUGH CLENCHED TEETH to try it out? Because I just did ;)