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They're aliased to all holy hell. I'd take a blue tint if I could trade it for the aliasing.

Watched Star Wars tonight. The first one. The transfer looks decent on a 4x3 42" Sony HDTV. The biggest and most noticeable problem with them is aliasing. R2's dome is a major offender, as is pretty much any other surface where long straight lines are shown on screen. Detail is a little...

How do idiots like this get work in this industry? Ugh.

Interesting viewpoint. Thanks for that.

They're below the frame, so it's almost definite that they will be at least partially obscured. They are on the lasers, anyway, and those are burned in.

Yeah, subs are just bitmaps displayed by the player. They could make them look good, if they wanted to....the Okuda commentaries on the later Star Trek collector's DVDs are proof of that.

Because sooner or later, we're going to get a quality release of Star Wars: The OOT on home video. It's only a matter of time.

Never mind. Smarter people than I are on it!

Heck, the LDs themselves are better quality than the widescreen VHS.

I don't know what they think. But apparently LFL is content to let them and others like them do as they please, so long as they aren't making any money off of it.

Ugh.

I might rent and rip, but I won't buy. I already own the Faces and Definitive Collection on LD, as well as the Faces on VHS. I've been meaning to transfer them to DVD for portability sake for some time; but it will be far easier to just rip the DVDs. :)

Hmmm.

Those don't look too bad, but screen caps won't show interlacing artifacts (stars blinking) or other ugliness that can be revealed only by motion.

Why? The only benefit I can see is that the DVDs will get a direct component to component tape transfer as opposed to the composite one made for the LDs. Nastiness like DVNR, aliasing, color shift, etc will still be there. I expect the DVDs to look *marginally* better than the LDs. But...

I put this into the "be careful what you ask for, you just might get it" category. :)

Isn't it likely that these PAL DVDs are sourced from NTSC masters? After all, the PAL laserdiscs were sourced from NTSC. If that's the case again, it's possible the NTSC DVDs will look a tiny bit better. But hey, what do I care anyway? I'm not buying them. :)

The aliasing on this set is pretty bad....watch those stars flicker in just about every space scene. Running the LDs through a Farjouda deinterlacer cleans things up alot, but there are still noticeable problems.

Yup. Did that with The Great Escape today. Yummy!

Hey, that's a shitty, circa-1993 transfer we're getting, not 1997. I'd be happy if this transfer looked as good as the one they did for the 1997 LDs. ;)

Sorry Mark about the nonanamorphic quip. I edited my post appropriately since it wasn't you. Now then.... It's not for me.

Oh please. It's not anti-Star Wars to discourage people from buying non-anamorphic DVDs...it's anti-non-anamorphic. Just like it's not anti-Star Wars to discourage people from buying Pan and Scan versions of the films...it's anti-Pan and Scan. And if you have a problem with that, then I...

Ooooh.....I like that idea!

You are? It took him years to release the the special editions on DVD, and DVD is a wildy successful format. D-VHS was a tiny niche product and a transitional one at best. It makes perfect sense he wouldn't release Star Wars on it.

It does look a bit better, mostly because there's no annoying CLV smearing.

Do you feel better now? That was hardly necessary. :rolleyes

Like I said in the other thread that was locked, I'm going to wait and see. If reviews aren't horrible, I'll probably pick up all three, open Empire, pop it into the DVD player, and if it isn't considerably better than my LDs, then the other two go back to the store and the opened one goes to ebay.

I merely suggested it as an alternative to spending $90 on releases many folks already own. There are people who already have the 2004 DVDs and want to own the OT, but don't want to support George/LFL by purchasing these new DVDs. The LDs are the best way to do that, and they'll look superb on...

Jack: If you really want the theatrical versions, and you already own the 2004 DVDs....take your $90 and head on over to ebay, and buy yourself the Faces editions and a Pioneer CLD-S104. That way, LFL gets $0 from you, and you get what you want.

THX Certification is most certainly not THX Certification. The THX certification awarded in 1993 was THX Laserdisc certification. Therefore, it doesn't carry over to DVD just because the THX Laserdisc certified transfers are ported to DVD. If LFL re-released the Definitive Collection on...