Star Wars: The Complete Saga (1977-2005)

[Beast]

Originally Posted by shelldweller

So the CGI Yoda in the Phantom Menace is finally confirmed! Yay!

Yeah, that's the best news of the entire event. Since that's the only glaring issue of the Saga that still needed fixed.

[HandyDandy]

Originally Posted by chip75

I don't think I'll even remember by the time the discs start spinning. If we all aren't lost in the experience then we've let the little kid in all of us down. I'll leave some of the debating to the experts.

I agree.

[Beast]

Originally Posted by skyofcrack

He writes this as if that's a positive thing. We want the classic films preserved on Blu-ray.

Who's We? Not everyone wants that. Lucas as the Creator certainly doesn't want that.

It is a positive thing. As for "Deleted Forever", copies exist. Just not on Blu-Ray.

[Beast]

Originally Posted by Duffy12

Quite a few of us have seen these hundreds and hundreds of times, so written down checklists are unnecessary. .

Considering how many people have said they never noticed the Wampa Error, I'm sure there's tons of stuff people never noticed that are being tweaked or adjusted. Especially if according to those comments from the press event, there's even small audio changes.

[robmlisanti]

http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articl...s/preview.html

The 2011 Star Wars Saga Blu-rays - First Insights

All right, so I wasn't really able to talk about this in advance, but some of you may have wondered why I posted the Friday update here on The Bits so early. The reason is this: I was fortunate enough to spend the morning Friday - along with about ten other members of the international media - at Lucasfilm's Letterman Digital Center compound at the Presidio in San Francisco. The reason, as you might expect, was to get a first-hand look at the upcoming Star Wars Saga Blu-ray Disc release (due in stores on 9/16). Throughout the morning, I was able to see and sample check discs from the set, to ask lots of questions and to learn more about the overall content and quality of the set. What I learned was... well, I think the best word to describe it is this: encouraging.

Now, before you all bombard me with questions, know I'm waiting for some of my technical questions to be answered in the next week or two, so I'll have an additional comments then. Also, there are some things I can't talk about related to this set for a couple more weeks yet, specifically the content of the deleted scenes. But I'll tell you this: I've been feeling somewhat ambivalent about this release up until now - as I'm sure have many of you longtime fans. As a result of this hands-on experience, however, I am more excited about this release than I was before.

I know that many of you have questions about the video and audio quality of these discs, as did I. So here's what I can tell you at the moment...

Obviously, the Prequel Trilogy is mastered directly from the original digital files - the actual final source masters that appeared in digital theatres around the world. However, I'm told that - particularly with Episode I - when the original DVD master was created from the source files, the state of the technology at that time meant that some of the image area was lost all around the frame. In other words, you weren't seeing the complete "film" image in the DVD master. Today's mastering technology corrects this, so you are now finally seeing the entire film image of Episode I on Blu-ray. Here's an example of what I mean. This first image shows the image area on the original DVD version...

[Strevlac]

Originally Posted by Beast

Who's We? Not everyone wants that. Lucas as the Creator certainly doesn't want that.

It is a positive thing. As for "Deleted Forever", copies exist. Just not on Blu-Ray.

It's pretty creepy how you call George Lucas the "Creator" with a capitol C.

[Duffy12]

Originally Posted by Beast

Considering how many people have said they never noticed the Wampa Error, I'm sure there's tons of stuff people never noticed that are being tweaked or adjusted. Especially if according to those comments from the press event, there's even small audio changes.

Actually that's a good point as I never noticed that until someone brought that up a few years ago.


.

[phansson]

Originally Posted by Duffy12

Quite a few of us have seen these hundreds and hundreds of times, so written down checklists are unnecessary.
.

I just checked out your signature about the Teal and Orange. If you hate it so much, why is your avatar a perfect example????

[DarthMarino]

Originally Posted by Beast

Yeah, that's the best news of the entire event. Since that's the only glaring issue of the Saga that still needed fixed.

The Sarlaac and new Max Reebo band look terribly dated now. They touched up the new Jabba scene in A New Hope for the DVD but these still reek of 1997.

[chip75]

Originally Posted by Beast

Considering how many people have said they never noticed the Wampa Error, I'm sure there's tons of stuff people never noticed that are being tweaked or adjusted. Especially if according to those comments from the press event, there's even small audio changes.

I think having a slight mistake on the left and side of the screen is the best place for it as we naturally look from left to right, if it was on the right hand side it would have been spotted by everyone.

I jsut watched the scene and I only spotted it when I was looking for it. I also hadn't realized how bloody Luke's face gets. It's quite gory for a U certificate.

PDVD_061.jpg

PDVD_062.jpg

[shelldweller]

Originally Posted by Beast

Considering how many people have said they never noticed the Wampa Error, I'm sure there's tons of stuff people never noticed that are being tweaked or adjusted. Especially if according to those comments from the press event, there's even small audio changes.

Yeah, I´m still waiting for the first people to say it looked better with the puppeteer´s arm visible.

[Cowboy]

Originally Posted by shelldweller

So the CGI Yoda in the Phantom Menace is finally confirmed! Yay!

Where? I would like to read about this.

[Beast]

Originally Posted by DarthMarino

The Sarlaac and new Max Reebo band look terribly dated now. They touched up the new Jabba scene in A New Hope for the DVD but these still reek of 1997.

Hmmm. I don't see it. They look fine to me. And Sy Snootles looks eons better than Fulgy Puppet. The only issue I had was the Crappy Puppet in TPM.

Besides, they did improve the Max Rebo Band for the 2004 DVD release. So it does look better than the '97 SE. The Sarlaac was also slightly improved.

[Cowboy]

Originally Posted by Beast

Hmmm. I don't see it. They look fine to me. And Sy Snootles looks eons better than Fulgy Puppet. The only issue I had was the Crappy Puppet in TPM.

They look worse than Mos Eisley in 77 and that looked like a backlot right?

[ZoetMB]

Originally Posted by Bukax42

Most of the digital projections are in 2K.

Quickly moving to 4K. Big adoption rates of the Sony 4K projectors by both Regal-UA and AMC-Loews.

[Cowboy]

Originally Posted by Beast

Hmmm. I don't see it. They look fine to me. And Sy Snootles looks eons better than Fulgy Puppet. The only issue I had was the Crappy Puppet in TPM.

Besides, they did improve the Max Rebo Band for the 2004 DVD release. So it does look better than the '97 SE. The Sarlaac was also slightly improved.

The sarlaac looks terrible! Looks like the plant in Little Shop of Horrors, hardly scary. I would hope that he would have gone back to the pit with teeth for the BD release (or at least come up with something that actually looks frighting)

[JasonWard]

They've done a lot with a hole in the ground.

[Beast]

Originally Posted by JasonWard

They've done a lot with a hole in the ground.

*Chuckles* Indeed. Complaining the Sarlaac's beak isn't scary? What was scary about a hole in the ground?

The addition of the beak and more tentacles gave it some much needed personality lacking from the hole.

[gallandro]

Originally Posted by ZoetMB

Quickly moving to 4K. Big adoption rates of the Sony 4K projectors by both Regal-UA and AMC-Loews.

But we are talking about a home theater release...

[Cowboy]

Originally Posted by Beast

*Chuckles* Indeed. Complaining the Sarlaac's beak isn't scary? What was scary about a hole in the ground?

The addition of the beak and more tentacles gave it some much needed personality lacking from the hole.

Oh a hole needs personality? Well some do.....it looked more menacing with just teeth...sorry.