Star Wars: The Complete Saga (1977-2005)

[mredman]

Originally Posted by emb531

A couple shots of CGI Yoda in TPM, and a couple of Maul. Has a digital look to it for sure, but looks pretty good. Will have some more from Sith shortly, and AOTC later. Any scenes or specific sections for screen shots let me know.

Originally Posted by emb531

More Yoda in TPM

The PQ is phenomenal

[Bukax42]

Wow, some shots from TPM are simply awful.

[HandyDandy]

So to those that you know HAVE THE DISCS has anything been added like in the OT.

[Petyr_Baelish]

It's fairly obvious why they used the DNR. They want the movie to look clear like the other two movies.

[scamander]

Originally Posted by phansson

Merlinpants, that is so bizarre on those screen shots you posted. The facial shots are dnr'd to death and the city shots are just amazing.

Why would lucasfilm do this?

Maybe they did it back in 98 to make the characters fit more into the digital settings? Remember, they shot almost all of the film on 35mm, but scanned it later and did all the sfx only in the digital files. It is possible, they filtered the files before doing that.

[Merlinpants]

Originally Posted by mredman

The PQ is phenomenal

Absolutely right, it's just what they have done with that picture that is the problem here.

[mredman]

Originally Posted by emb531

TPM CGI is very dated. Sith looks awesome however

Reference quality in my book

[whaleman]

Originally Posted by mredman

Reference quality in my book

Getting more excited! As long as RotS looks amazing as early indications suggest, I'm sure I can live with whatever the other prequels look like. Any word on AotC? I heard the grain reduction makes Christopher Lee look at least 75 years younger.

[mredman]

Originally Posted by hipster.doofus7

Uh, no.

It's the Qui-Gon still that keeps popping up over and over and over and over again. And it has become the banner for all the haters. I mean... just because you see 2 samples posted 20 times, doesn't mean you've seen 20 examples. And the funny thing is... nobody knows why that Qui-Gon photo is so soft. Is it because of DNR? Is it because of motion blur? Or is it simply a misfocused shot that made it into the final cut of the film? I don't know for sure. Do you?

The rest of the stills we've seen from TPM are not "pretty bad" as you claim they are. To me, the rest of the stills are about on par with the Aliens Blu-ray. Clear evidence of DNR, but still very decent.

These 2 screenshots from TPM looks astounding. People really complain abou everything these days

[phansson]

Originally Posted by mredman

Reference quality in my book

I agree, those ROTS screen caps look incredible.

[RodChester]

So for the folks who have the discs already. Do the video segments on the bonus discs play in full screen or are they in a smaller window with a border around it similar to how they played on the iPad app?

[Weirded Wonder]

Originally Posted by NYorker

After nearly 1,500 pages, I for one can't wait for Jurassic Park to arrive - then we can all move to another thread and start from scratch...

I still cannot believe the price point for the Jurassic Park trilogy. Seems a bit much in comparison to the Complete Saga. But I'm getting both so...

[svenge]

Originally Posted by emb531

TPM CGI is very dated. Sith looks awesome however

That screenshot just reminded me of the absolute worst thing about Episode III: Padme's death. Yeah, there's a galaxy-spanning civilization with technology at a level nearly indistinguishable from magic, but they can't figure out what's causing her to die. Yeah, she's "lost the will to live" (while giving birth to twins no less) and that's whats causing it. Either that or the humors in her body are out of balance. Or it's lupus. Maybe some midichlorians from Anakin infected her when he force-attacked her on that lava planet or something? Obviously she had to die to fit the story into the OT, but it was handled horribly.

[SwissHD]

Originally Posted by Merlinpants

1 out of 9 ain't bad !

LOL

The OT Films are looking good despite the use of old 2004 masters.
It's a bit Hyperbole about this Transfers.

Could they look even better with new 4K Remastering?
Yes of course.
But that's not a reason to be that negative about the old masters.
They look really good. Not spectacular but good.

[toddly6666]

Isn't DNR a benefit for the prequels since the real characters are dealing with CGI characters? I thought that the more rubbery and plastic the real people look like, the better they merge with the dated CGI characters in the first two prequels?


So has there been a general number grade consensus with these blu-rays yet? From all the bits of pieces of info from everywhere, this is what I assume:


TPM:
Video: 4
Audio: 5

AOTC:
Video: 4
Audio: 5

ROS:
Video: 5
Audio: 5

ANH:
Video: 4.5
Audio: 5

ESB:
Video: 4.5
Audio: 5

ROJ:
Video: 4.5
Audio: 5

Are these the accurate video/audio grade assumptions?

[Blu Titan]

Originally Posted by RodChester

So for the folks who have the discs already. Do the video segments on the bonus discs play in full screen or are they in a smaller window with a border around it similar to how they played on the iPad app?

Member "crs" is the only one that has provided proof of owning the actual Blu-rays (IFAIK). Hopefully, he will see your post.

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by mredman

Reference quality in my book

It should be. AOTC and ROTS were filmed digitally in 1080p. So this is it for those two films as this is the best they will ever look, period.

[phansson]

Has someone posted AOTC screenshots yet? How are they looking?

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by toddly6666

Isn't DNR a benefit for the prequels since the real characters are dealing with CGI characters? I thought that the more rubbery and plastic the real people look like, the better they merge with the dated CGI characters in the first two prequels?


So has there been a general number grade consensus with these blu-rays yet? From all the bits of pieces of info from everywhere, this is what I assume:


TPM:
Video: 4
Audio: 5

AOTC:
Video: 4
Audio: 5

ROS:
Video: 5
Audio: 5

ANH:
Video: 4.5
Audio: 5

ESB:
Video: 4.5
Audio: 5

ROJ:
Video: 4.5
Audio: 5

Are these the accurate video/audio grade assumptions?

Not sure yet. I am reserving judgment until I see my own discs next week.

[mredman]

Originally Posted by Beast

So the Qui-Gon shot just looked bad, likely due to a filter on the camera, even originally.

But wow! That one scene with Padme's Decoy. The HDTV version... her white face make-up almost looks like it's gone.

All in all, I have to say that the Blu-Ray images look much better than the HDTV ones.

I agree they did the best they could do with this one. And the result is MUCH better then the HDTV version in every screenshot.