Star Wars: The Complete Saga (1977-2005)

[earmullet]

Originally Posted by Beard Esquire

Those did not look like blu-ray shots to me either. The top photo looked as if there is less detail than the DVD. Very misleading.

But these new shots of TPM look much better.

Here is a collage of hi rez screen grabs that seem to be from the actual source.

http://www.millenniumfalcon.com/phpb...=asc&start=100

[Beast]

Originally Posted by Romansh

Running times US vs. UK.

And what this round of "A Few New Surprises" will consist of. Such as if the Imperial March will show in ANH.

[srinivas1015]

Originally Posted by jordy475

Ha...Get this.. I pre ordered on Amazon in january, expected delivery is October 3-October 7th, WTH. Probably going to be cancelling this and picking it up at a store.

Double check your shipping speed. I'm in India and ordering from Amazon US via Priority Shipping and the expected delivery date is September 19th-21st.

[Weirded Wonder]

Originally Posted by earmullet

Here is a collage of hi rez screen grabs that seem to be from the actual source.

http://www.millenniumfalcon.com/phpb...=asc&start=100

Those look ten fold better.

[nmycon]

There are so many instances in the OT where you can see the prop lightsaber blade

Couldn't have been that hard to fix...

[IMPORTANT NOTICE: This comment is not a complaint, it is simply an observation]

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[siso]

Originally Posted by earmullet

Here is a collage of hi rez screen grabs that seem to be from the actual source.

http://www.millenniumfalcon.com/phpb...=asc&start=100

I really doubt these are from the "actual source"



this is more likely to be from the actual source

[Agent Bond]

Why did Lucas change it so Greedo shot first anyway?

[MrJoeKalel]

Has anybody who preordered thru DD gotten a hold on their account? I saw one yesterday on my account and it went away today. I hope I get SW early just like some of us got the Buster Keaton Shorts Collection early thru DD.

Off topic: People, give up with the UOT, you will not get what YOU want. Compare SW with Blade Runner; Blade Runner had a release with five (?) different cuts, and none of you complained because you were given everything including the kitchen sink (what fans wanted, it's unclear, I'm not a Blade Runner fan).

The Blade Runner Final Cut was praised by almost everybody, with its multiple changes, don't forget...but the whole deal is, SW or not, with the SW blu-ray release fans are not given what they want. Can we just grow up? Seriously, you are spoiled American brats who are always accustomed to get what you want. Not this time, specially with capitalist money-hungry GL.

[Chordata]

Originally Posted by Agent Bond

Why did Lucas change it so Greedo shot first anyway?

To generate 14+ years of internet discussion.

[jordy475]

Originally Posted by srinivas1015

Double check your shipping speed. I'm in India and ordering from Amazon US via Priority Shipping and the expected delivery date is September 19th-21st.

Shipping was super saver, and I'm in the US, i always do the free shipping and never had it give me dates like that, regardless changing the address (to a house 20 mins away from my orignal address) fixed it to what I normally see

[adywan]

Originally Posted by earmullet

Here is a collage of hi rez screen grabs that seem to be from the actual source.

http://www.millenniumfalcon.com/phpb...=asc&start=100

If those are supposed to be from the actual source then they haven't touched the colour timing of the OT. Oh, and before somebody chimes in and says that i'm wrong because the images are lighter, then first check the black levels of the matte bars in each picture. they are using studio colour space (16-235) . Now here is a comparison between one of the so called blu-ray promotional shots on mf.com and the same frame taken from the HDTV capture with the colour space changed from 0-255 pc scale to DVD/blu-ray 16-235 colour space. No colour correction or any other work was done. Now tell me which one is which?



So either these promotional stills are still using the old 2004 master and they are holding off releasing any images that are truly from the blu-rays or these are in fact directly from the blu-rays and all the reports about the colour timing changes were mistaken, thinking they meant the OT when in fact the colour timing alterations were only done to the PT (which evidence is there that they have greatly altered the colour timing in AOTC especially at Kamino - proof below)

[Duffy12]

Originally Posted by Bukax42

Here's another TPM comparison, this time between DVD (top) and screenshots from http://moments.starwars.com/visualizer (bottom):

Hey guys...what your opinion on Maul's lightsaber in those pics?

I am viewing them on a work computer so I am unsure if it is calibrated correctly.




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[ZoetMB]

Originally Posted by Beast

C-3PO: "Wonderful!" Looking pretty good. And I love the fact the model was mistakenly built flipped.

I hope it sounds better on the BD than on that video. Playing back that video in 2 channel on semi-decent desktop speakers, the dialog is too low and sounds over compressed. It's buried in the music.

[Walter E Kurtz]

Originally Posted by Duffy12

Hey guys...what your opinion on Maul's lightsaber in those pics?

I am viewing them on a work computer so I am unsure if it is calibrated correctly.




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it seems pretty orangey on my screen

[chad_1138]

Originally Posted by Duffy12

Hey guys...what your opinion on Maul's lightsaber in those pics?

I am viewing them on a work computer so I am unsure if it is calibrated correctly.




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Originally Posted by Walter E Kurtz

it seems pretty orangey on my screen

Here we go again...

[Bukax42]

Originally Posted by adywan

If those are supposed to be from the actual source then they haven't touched the colour timing of the OT.

It doesn't mean they've changed it in every single scene, so some scenes can look just like on DVD, while others will be different.

[ZoetMB]

Originally Posted by Agent Bond

Why did Lucas change it so Greedo shot first anyway?

Because Solo is supposed to be a good guy and a hero and in essence, Solo murdered Greedo in the original version.

Frankly, in both versions, it all happens so fast, I'm not sure the average person could tell the difference and since Greedo isn't a human, would care anyway.

When all this "Han shot first!" stuff came up years ago, I had no freaking idea what it was all about because what I had remembered (correctly or wrongly) was that Greedo had a gun under the table and Han was aware of it. So that even though Han shot first, it was in self-defense. No big deal. But changing it so that Greedo explicitly shot first? I don't think that was a big deal either.

But to the crowd that obsesses over the color of laser beams in a fantasy universe, I guess it is a big deal, especially because it was a change. Once the BDs come out, if the PQ is really good, I expect to see threads complaining about "panty lines".

[Duffy12]

Originally Posted by Walter E Kurtz

it seems pretty orangey on my screen

Yea, or 'peachy'.


That's just peachy!!!!!!


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[adywan]

Originally Posted by Bukax42

It doesn't mean they've changed it in every single scene, so some scenes can look just like on DVD, while others will be different.

i just posted that one pic as an example. all the others from ESB are the same as the 2004 HDTV versions too.

EDIT: Nope, they are exactly the same throughout the promotional pictures

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[Jumpman]

Thanks, adywan. We get it. Can we all just wait until the 16th?