Star Wars: The Complete Saga (1977-2005)

[rubystone356]

Originally Posted by El_Jay

Did anyone else start with The Phantom Menace and get really discouraged/depressed and have a hard time continuing?

I watched all 6 movies back to back. no problems with episode 1.

Jacob

[sowecrazy]

has anyone noticed a blue hue in the corners of return of the jedi? mostly in jabbas palace.

[bguzman]

Originally Posted by Gojhawks

Audio dropouts have cropped up, especially in Episode IV. I had 3 or 4 drops while watching IV, bitstreaming from a Panasonic BD-35 to a Denon 3311. There have been reports switching the BR player to output PCM solves the drops. I have not tried it yet. It is unclear if it is a player, receiver or disc problem.

Same here on AOTC bitsreaming from a Pioneer 320 to a Denon790. PCM solved the problem however I can now blame George for something else, not only did he get rid of puppet Yoda he also got rid of my pretty blue light on my receiver .

[retablo]

Originally Posted by DarkDune

Watching AOTC now (seen ANH, ESB, and ROTS <-- my 6-year-old's order requested, not mine LOL), and notice certainly more than a few shots throughout that look a bit blurry, and out of complete focus.

For me, I see those kind of issues as a problem from the source material and not authoring itself. These movies have all been around for a while now, and were not intended originally to be shown on HD TV, per se. They were all produced for film (yes even ROTS, although thankfully it translated well to HD).

Produced for "film" or not, they still screened 50 feet wide at the theater, which is much more resolution than a HDTV... I'm curious what difference it would make? Not to mention AOTC and ROTS were shot entirely digitally, so they weren't actually produced for FILM at all. No film was used.

[kenkraly2004]

I've watch the blu-rays and I have not notice any audio dropouts except for switching between the different audio tracks on the blu-rays other than that no major issues with the blu-rays for me as far and audio dropouts and I have a onkyo txsr-308 home theater receiver.

[KillingMurphy]

Just finished watching A New Hope ... no audio issues, but just as the credits were about to end, it displayed the subtitle selection - [English], even though I had no subtitles turned on. Went back and selected other subtitle tracks to check again, and it would display whatever subtitles I had selected - [Spanish-Latin], etc. Any one else notice this, and is it necessarily an issue? Was watching it on a PS3, btw.

[Breather]

Originally Posted by DanzG

I was just thinking the other night watching TPM how much that movie would be improved if they just deleted Jar Jar and the Gungans out of the entire movie. I mean really everything wrong and cringe worthy just about is directly attributed to him. Yeah young "annie" has some cringe worthy lines every now and then but I mean damn he is a kid so he has an excuse and I can easily over look his "yippes" and things I mean when I was his age in the movie I probably said a bunch of dumb s**t to, we all did I am sure but Jar Jar's antics are just ridicules and just distracting from the plot of the movie.

Agreed. It would help the movie tremendously, in my opinion.

[Breather]

Originally Posted by WontonNoodle

WTF??? THought my tv screen was broken but no.

in ANH and ESB theres a frikin wide green line down the right side of the frame

i like how no reviews have talked about this.

this fricken green line down the side of my screen
ridiculous

popped in star wars 3, no problem

There's a thread over at HTF(hometheaterforum.com). It's a review thread where members are posting their sometimes in-depth reviews of the set. Start on page 1 and look for posts by a member named "Paul Warren". He posts about this same issue that you've mentioned plus other similar issues throughout the OT. He even took pictures of his screen and drew boxes around the problems. You'll find those pictures on Page 2 of the thread. To my knowledge, you and he are the only people who have made mention of such an issue. Either it's very isolated, something to do with your setups, or it's there and most haven't noticed it.

He said it's very noticeable at the end of Star Wars in the throne room medal ceremony. He said it's on the right side of the frame.

Check it out:

http://www.hometheaterforum.com/t/31...-review-thread

[Gardenofstone10]

Every second of these movies I watch on Blu just makes me so proud of this format. The audio, the picture. Absolute best

[red_5ive]

Originally Posted by DarkDune

My son wanted to watch ANH again, and I suppose the low volume of the "Stand by. Stand by" audio isn't SO strange. I do miss hearing it clearly though

One mistake Matthew Wood! Just one!

I noticed it was pretty low, too. It is much less audible the 2nd time it is said. It is so engrained in my head that to me it is more or less an expected audio queue for the Death Star exploding.

[BladeRunner2007]

Originally Posted by KillingMurphy

Just finished watching A New Hope ... no audio issues, but just as the credits were about to end, it displayed the subtitle selection - [English], even though I had no subtitles turned on. Went back and selected other subtitle tracks to check again, and it would display whatever subtitles I had selected - [Spanish-Latin], etc. Any one else notice this, and is it necessarily an issue? Was watching it on a PS3, btw.

Probably because there were some english subtitles during the scenes with Greedo and Jabba.

[dudeabides38]

I just noticed that planet Kamino is missing from the Episode 2 extras. Seems like an odd omission.

[Beast]

C'mon guys. There's no need to fight. Not everyone is going to like the same things.

But comments suggesting that people have to be retarded to like Phantom Menace and such cross the line.

It's okay to not personally like a movie, or a character, but there's personal dislike and there's just being a douchecanoe.

I dislike plenty of popular movies, Godfather and The Dark Knight being chief among them. But I wouldn't consider it's fans mentally deficient for liking them.

How about a little personal respect for everyone's opinions. As long as they're not presented as attacks against fans, filmmakers, and the like.

[AlT_3D]

Originally Posted by Beast

C'mon guys. There's no need to fight. Not everyone is going to like the same things.

But comments suggesting that people have to be retarded to like Phantom Menace and such cross the line.

It's okay to not personally like a movie, or a character, but there's personal dislike and there's just being a douchecanoe.

I dislike plenty of popular movies, Godfather and The Dark Knight being chief among them. But I wouldn't consider it's fans mentally deficient for liking them.

How about a little personal respect for everyone's opinions. As long as they're not presented as attacks against fans, filmmakers, and the like.

I've not said anything to suggest that at all.

All I was saying is that this guy has no right to say that if we don't like all of the SW films, then we simply can't be true fans, which is utter rubbish, apart from being arrogant beyond belief.

I'm all for the opinion of the individual, no opinion is right or wrong! Was my post unclear, it seems pretty straight forward to me!

[hazelwu]

Originally Posted by BladeRunner2007

Probably because there were some english subtitles during the scenes with Greedo and Jabba.

That's right. There are many forced subtitles and also subtitles for commentary just to state the current speaker(s).

[Kuma]

Originally Posted by ranitasus

question guys. It's been a while since I've picked up a Star Wars continuation novel. I don't know if many of you hate them, if you do, then I apologize for bringing it up lol. Any recommendations? I want to start reading the New Jedi Order, but I don't know if i have time to read 19 novels

There were 5 "major" novels within NJO; Vector Prime, Balance Point, Star By Star, Destiny's Way, and The Undying Force. If you read those and then just plot synopsis from the others you should be fine

[DarkDune]

Originally Posted by bigpapy

Question, when I'm watching this movies I notice the black bars look red is this normal?
Ubaldo

Turn down your White Balance's Red Bias (Red in Dark Scenes). That will help.

[naturephoto1]

Originally Posted by Joe Dalek

It's funny how different folks can see entirely different things.

To me, ROTJ is clearly the best transfer. The scenes in Jabba's palace are flawless. ESB looks great, with a pleasant level of grain. I wouldn't call ANH "murky" at all -- in fact, I popped in the DVD and compared a few scenes after watching the Blu-ray, and found that the contrast on the Blu-ray is much better than the DVD.

TPM has noticeable DNR presumably in an effort to give it a grainless look akin to the other two digitally-shot prequels. And while AOTC and ROTS look nice and clean, my screen has displayed a fair amount of aliasing in both of those films, while there is hardly any at all in the OT films.

In a sense it's apples and oranges. Some will prefer the softer, CGI heavy prequel look and others will prefer the grain of the OT. Trying to make all six look the same would have been a huge mistake, and trying to make TPM look like the other PT films is understandable (because otherwise people might complain how grainy it looks compared to AOTC and ROTS) but I think it suffers for it.

To each their own.

I agree regarding the transfer of Return of the Jedi. I thought it was the best of the original trilogy and was stunning.

Rich

[nmycon]

have you guys noticed how EVERYTHING is subtitled?! awesome!

All of the movies have subtitles for the 6.1 DTS-HD track (in english), plus for both of the commentary tracks

And every single video on the bonus discs, even the 20-30 second deleted scenes have subtitles!


Only thing is with the bonus discs, there's no menu to turn them on, I'm using a PS3 so I just press Triangle and go through the sub options. I guess you could always scroll through the list of your BD players a/v menu.

[RickER]

Originally Posted by Gojhawks

Audio dropouts have cropped up, especially in Episode IV. I had 3 or 4 drops while watching IV, bitstreaming from a Panasonic BD-35 to a Denon 3311. There have been reports switching the BR player to output PCM solves the drops. I have not tried it yet. It is unclear if it is a player, receiver or disc problem.

Same problem here.

Denon 3310 Receiver and a Sony 1000ES Blu-ray player. Plays fine if i switch to "mix" on the Blu-ray player. It also plays fine if i just use the TV speakers (Sony 50 inch LCD).
It also plays fine on my other setup. Sony 360 Blu-ray player and Pioneer receiver.
So far the Denon playing the DTS-HD seems to be the only hang-up.
But, i just read a post on another forum, a guy who has the same receiver as me, and it sounds fine, no dropouts.

Just damn annoying.