Star Wars: The Complete Saga (1977-2005)

[Aerodude73]

Originally Posted by kenkraly2004

I will get the films no matter which version of the original trilogy is included and I like the prequels their not as great as the original trilogy but not all of the stuff in them are not that bad either.

Originally Posted by WorkShed

uh.... what?

He's just in a competition with that other guy a couple pages back for Longest Run-On Sentence EVER...

Originally Posted by Dubstar

So have the audio specs been announced or are they TBD, DTS-HD MA 6.1 or 7.1 ???

I personally Bumped this since it was glossed over about 6-9 pages back.

**** Does ANYONE Know yet the Audio specs for this set? ****

I'd love for this to get a 7.1 Audio treatment

[Show spoiler](like recent releases of Toy Story 3, The Expendables, etc.)

, but knowing Lucas & Lucasfilm with their tech., I can only Hope it's not just a generic 5.1 DTS-HD MA (even if that will prob. sound just fine.)

[Alpha]

Originally Posted by V400

Can't wait. Question: What are the advantages of pre-ordering? Is it just guaranteeing yourself a copy, or is there something more to it? I've order from amazon before, just never pre-ordered anything. I always just go the local BB and purchase what i want on release date.

Besides the lowest price guarantee, it's really just a convenience, especially if you don't have any retail stores nearby. I'm not even sure if you're guaranteed a copy. You're guaranteed to get it at that price though. But if they have a stock shortage or something, I think it's first come, first serve.

[STARKILLER--1138]

Originally Posted by SonOfArathorn

Pre-ordered the 9 disc set, can't see why anyone who's a fan would not want all of the movies. I suspect many of the voices out there saying they won't get the prequels are going to get them anyway, they just won't tell anyone here.

That's because they're not. Pseudo-fans. Agree though that most will still buy'em all regardless of what they say here.

[V400]

Originally Posted by The Blu Knight

I do it to lock in a price. The way I see it $90 is a great price for this set, and it could go down, or way up, but either way it's good to have this as a back-up, especially considering if the price drops between your pre-order date you pay the lowest price. You essentially guarantee that you'll pay no more than $90.

Another Question: Once you pre-order, do you get billed right away, or when it ships?

[STARKILLER--1138]

Originally Posted by V400

Another Question: Once you pre-order, do you get billed right away, or when it ships?

When it ships.

[BillieCassin]

Originally Posted by Pondosinatra

Lucas' incessant desire to tinker aside, I think the technical reason (I read this somewhere) is that there is no master print. It was lost or destroyed. The SE versions were cobbled together from various prints.

And before people get all uppity on me I read this in a lengthy article posted on Arstechnica I believe.

Edit: Here's the article.... http://arstechnica.com/media/news/20...star-wars.ars/

Well, if you read the WHOLE article, yes, the original master is in pieces, but there are PLENTY of other copies (including the silver separation masters) which would be more than adequate for HD transfer if they didn't want to piece together the original version, would be very cheap to transfer, and would require little clean-up.

If you really want to read the whole story, check out http://secrethistoryofstarwars.com/savingstarwars.html , which is the site of the guy who was used as the source of the story you linked above. It goes into much more depth and detail of the situation.

It will happen someday. Evidence of this can be seen in the fact that Lucas is no longer calling them the "workprint" versions in a derogatory way, he's calling them the "classic" versions now. And also, it was said that they wouldn't be releasing the individual trilogies and just the big box set, which as we know now changed.

It might be a few years, but my guess is he'll attach new HD scans of the 2nd gen masters out there to the inevitable 3-D releases, which will probably come out one by one. Then he really wins - because I don't care anything about 3D, even for Star Wars (especially for Star Wars?), but I'd buy those things in a second if the original, "classic", unaltered films were on them as well.

[Aerodude73]

Originally Posted by V400

Another Question: Once you pre-order, do you get billed right away, or when it ships?

OMG, Lmao - HOW Many times has this question been Asked AND Answered 347 times (give or take), in the last 8-10 pages? (V400: This "rant" isn't directly at you my friend. I just keep seeing it Over & Over.)


** AMAZON ONLY CHARGES YOUR C.C. WHEN THE ORDER IS SHIPPED. **

[Dubstar]

Originally Posted by Aerodude73

...

I personally Bumped this since it was glossed over about 6-9 pages back.

**** Does ANYONE Know yet the Audio specs for this set? ****

I'd love for this to get a 7.1 Audio treatment

[Show spoiler](like recent releases of Toy Story 3, The Expendables, etc.)

, but knowing Lucas & Lucasfilm with their tech., I can only Hope it's not just a generic 5.1 DTS-HD MA (even if that will prob. sound just fine.)

since the DVD's featured Dolby Digital EX (6.1) sound, I really hope the bluray's will be encoded as such. (fingers crossed) Wasn't Lucas being a hard ass in not having any of the Star Wars films encoded in DTS sound for either the laserdisc or DVD editions, since Fox is exclusively DTS for it's bluray releases, guess he has to relent now.

[Aerodude73]

Originally Posted by Dubstar

since the DVD's featured Dolby Digital EX (6.1) sound, I really hope the bluray's will be encoded as such. (fingers crossed) Wasn't Lucas being a hard ass in not having any of the Star Wars films encoded in DTS sound for either the laserdisc or DVD editions, since Fox is exclusively DTS for it's bluray releases, guess he has to relent now.

Hey, 6.1 EX (DTS of course) I'll Gladly take over 5.1 -- Hell, maybe we'll get 7.1 after all...

Since FOX is pretty exclusive as you say with DTS (HD-MA), all I'M Saying is that it'd be kind of a letdown for this Set to be in anything other 6.1 or higher (EX, ES, 7.1, etc.). Just MY Opinion.

[Show spoiler](why, Yes. I Am Greedy!)

[ZoetMB]

Lucas messes with the CGI and everyone throws a fit, but if he doesn't mess with the sound to provide 7.1, everyone gets upset.

Episodes IV-VI were originally presented in 35mm Dolby Optical (LCR mono surround) and in 70mm 6-track Dolby Baby Boom magnetic (L Le C Re R mono surround -- Le and Re were low frequency effects channels). So if you really want to see them as originally presented, you'd want a 4.1 soundtrack.

[Dubstar]

Originally Posted by ZoetMB

Lucas messes with the CGI and everyone throws a fit, but if he doesn't mess with the sound to provide 7.1, everyone gets upset.

Episodes IV-VI were originally presented in 35mm Dolby Optical (LCR mono surround) and in 70mm 6-track Dolby Baby Boom magnetic (L Le C Re R mono surround -- Le and Re were low frequency effects channels). So if you really want to see them as originally presented, you'd want a 4.1 soundtrack.

yet he allowed the sound for the DVD's to have a matrixed rear center of sound to be added - hmmmm, he pretty much altered that too. As well as the removal of sound at point, the descent into the Death Star trench as I recall.

Personally I hope he doesn't remix the movies for 7.1 sound

question: were the 70mm prints of Empire and Jedi have the five front spread or with split stereo surround?

[rickantel]

jus locked in my order for 90 bucks fin right baby i almost fainted when i saw that price lol

[Aerodude73]

Originally Posted by ZoetMB

Lucas messes with the CGI and everyone throws a fit, but if he doesn't mess with the sound to provide 7.1, everyone gets upset.

Episodes IV-VI were originally presented in 35mm Dolby Optical (LCR mono surround) and in 70mm 6-track Dolby Baby Boom magnetic (L Le C Re R mono surround -- Le and Re were low frequency effects channels). So if you really want to see them as originally presented, you'd want a 4.1 soundtrack.

Whos' throwing a fit? We're just having a DISCUSSION about what audio specs he might use & what some of us might like them to be.

Relax already. 4.1 soundtrack? Nobody said wanting to see them as originally presented (audio wise). That's someone reading between lines that are not there.

[Ite]

I wonder who would buy just the prequel trilogy lol.

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by ZoetMB

Lucas messes with the CGI and everyone throws a fit, but if he doesn't mess with the sound to provide 7.1, everyone gets upset.

Episodes IV-VI were originally presented in 35mm Dolby Optical (LCR mono surround) and in 70mm 6-track Dolby Baby Boom magnetic (L Le C Re R mono surround -- Le and Re were low frequency effects channels). So if you really want to see them as originally presented, you'd want a 4.1 soundtrack.

That's better than having your discrete surround channels reversed, a'la the Episode IV DVD.

[mredman]

Originally Posted by mredman

Can we hope for all new interviews and documentary with the cast of all 6 movies. With Hamill, Ford, Fisher, Billy De Williams, and the rest who is alive along with Hayden, Liam, Ewan and Natalie Portman and of course Ian McDiarmid. Is it to much to hope for this?

bump a 2nd time!

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by Ite

I wonder who would buy just the prequel trilogy lol.

Ahmed Best.

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by mredman

bump a 2nd time!

Well, hopefully we can get the cast involved for commentary tracks, but I'm not holding my breath.

[gregmasciola]

I'm not much of an audiophile, but the only thing that bothered me on the DVD release was Han Solo's dialogue in A New Hope. Everything he said sounded kind of 'muffled', like what happens if you turn the treble all the way down.

[Ite]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

Ahmed Best.

Who?