Star Wars: The Complete Saga (1977-2005)

[hedliniv]

NO! - Canceled my amazon gold box order. Someday the original trilogy will be released properly. Today is not the day unfortunately...

[BladeRunner2007]

Originally Posted by crs

I watched The Phantom Menace BD just now. I thought the PQ was excellent in some parts, but inconsistent in others. The CGI is mostly very sharp & detailed, but in some scenes, live elements, actors in particular, are softer, making the CGI so obvious it becomes distracting. I thought Jar Jar Binks sticks out as an eyesore now even more than I ever remember.

Could you please post some screenshots of TPM?? That would be SO frickin nice of you

[BladeRunner2007]

Originally Posted by IndyMLVC

nope.

Thanks for the heads up on this I watched ROTJ yesterday and was amazed by how good it actually looked - for a '93 laserdisc master. I'd say it looked even "stunning" - again for a '93 LD master.

[crs]

Originally Posted by tigertron

Which scenes in particular were excellent and inconsistent? did you notice any changes (except some cleaned up effects and the CGI Yoda)

Have you watched episode 2 and 3 yet?

Generally, dimly lit scenes had softer details on live elements. CGI didn't mix too well in some of these scenes. Bright lit scenes were more often than not, superb, and the CGI was much less obvious, if at all, here. I'm not a reviewer though, so take my opinion for what it is.

I'm not the biggest Star Wars fan, it's probably 10 years since I last saw The Phantom Menace, so to be honest, I couldn't and didn't pay attention to or look for differences.

Originally Posted by BladeRunner2007

Could you please post some screenshots of TPM?? That would be SO frickin nice of you

Sorry, but I don't have capabilities to capture digital screenshots.

[aiman04]

Originally Posted by crs

I watched The Phantom Menace BD just now. I thought the PQ was excellent in some parts, but inconsistent in others. The CGI is mostly very sharp & detailed, but in some scenes, live elements, actors in particular, are softer, making the CGI so obvious it becomes distracting. I thought Jar Jar Binks sticks out as an eyesore now even more than I ever remember.

AQ was superb. The Pod Race scene on loud volume, wow, what an insanely agressive soundtrack. Spectacular low end.




I've got good news for you. Atleast on the North European set, all extras are subitled in English. I can't guarantee the same applies for the US set, but it won't surprise me if the disc contents are identical.

All commentaries (two for each movie) are subtitled in English as well as the other languages that have subtitles in the movie.

Interestingly, the commentaries actually each have two different English subtitle tracks, one track that subtitles the speech, and one track that identifies the various participants. Kind of odd they couldn't just combine the two (as the names are displayed on top of the screen) but that's how it is.

All three bonus discs have English subtitles.

Hope that helps!

Awesome, especially on the AQ!! Can't wait to experience this myself!

Good news about the subtitles too, hopefully it'll be the same on North American discs.

Look forward for the rest of your report.

Originally Posted by BladeRunner2007

Could you please post some screenshots of TPM?? That would be SO frickin nice of you

I think he mentioned that he don't have the means to do that, maybe he don't own a BD-ROM drive.

[BladeRunner2007]

Originally Posted by crs

Sorry, but I don't have capabilities to capture digital screenshots.

I see. But thanks for sharing your oponion on the disc

[kristoffer]

People talks a lot about color timing but was Hoth always blue? Or is it completely white in the OUT?

[crs]

Originally Posted by BladeRunner2007

I see. But thanks for sharing your oponion on the disc

I do have a BD-ROM (several actually), but TMT & PowerDVD that I use, isn't able to take screenshots of BDs. I guess I could always install whatever software necessary, but I haven't really bothered with it before, it's pretty far down on my priority list.

[BladeRunner2007]

Originally Posted by kristoffer

People talks a lot about color timing but was Hoth always blue? Or is it completely white in the OUT?

I think Hoth was always white in the UOT. It only had a slight blue-ish tint during the night scenes or when it got dark outside. But I'm not 100% sure about that.

[nmycon]

did the 2006 "Theatrical" DVD (A New Hope) contain Threepio's line "the tractor beam is coupled with the main reactor at _____ locations. A power loss at one locations will allow the ship to leave." (typed from memory, so may not be 100% )

[nmycon]

Originally Posted by kristoffer

People talks a lot about color timing but was Hoth always blue? Or is it completely white in the OUT?

It doesn't even look blue to me on the 2004 DVDs.

The only noticeably blue shot on Hoth is when Luke sees Ben's ghost. All other shots look white.

Calibrated display ftw!

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[MacEachaidh]

Originally Posted by kristoffer

People talks a lot about color timing but was Hoth always blue?

Snow in Middle Earth is aqua, apparently, so I guess anything is possible.

[BladeRunner2007]

Originally Posted by nmycon

did the 2006 "Theatrical" DVD (A New Hope) contain Threepio's line "the tractor beam is coupled with the main reactor at _____ locations. A power loss at one locations will allow the ship to leave." (typed from memory, so may not be 100% )

No, that line is missing. "Close the blast doors." is missing, too.

[nmycon]

Originally Posted by IndyMLVC

Really? Well that's just freakin' stupid.

My apologies BladeRunner!!!

LOL the only change in Star Wars HISTORY that has made the films closer to the theatrical versions!

[BladeRunner2007]

Originally Posted by nmycon

LOL the only change in Star Wars HISTORY that has made the films closer to the theatrical versions!

I know haha. The "Episode IV: A New Hope" actually always bothered me. I'm so glad they digitally erased that from the 2006 DVDs.

[killermike2178]

Originally Posted by BladeRunner2007

No, that line is missing. "Close the blast doors." is missing, too.

In ESB 2006 "UOT" DVD, Threepio's added line, "There's nowhere to go!", is there after "This is suicide!". Also, there's a bit of music added in the final scene of ESB, that, according to the list of changes on Wikipedia, was never in the theatrical release, proving that, along with the fact that they weren't presented in anamorphic widescreen, these 2006 releases were indeed not UOT cuts of the trilogy. LFL has never released them on home video and I'm pretty sure they never will. Time to accept it, and either get the NOOOO-rays or don't.

[nmycon]

I've been so jealous over the last few weeks seeing Americans comment on the $89.99 release price, while it remained $99.99 in Canada.

Well now Best Buy Canada has dropped the price to $79.99 until September 18th... so SUCK IT!

[BladeRunner2007]

In Germany the price for Complete Saga is 94 euro, which is 134 US dollars

[jonmoz]

Originally Posted by crs

Generally, dimly lit scenes had softer details on live elements. CGI didn't mix too well in some of these scenes. Bright lit scenes were more often than not, superb, and the CGI was much less obvious, if at all, here. I'm not a reviewer though, so take my opinion for what it is.

I'm not the biggest Star Wars fan, it's probably 10 years since I last saw The Phantom Menace, so to be honest, I couldn't and didn't pay attention to or look for differences.




Sorry, but I don't have capabilities to capture digital screenshots.

To be fair the phantom menace always seemed a little on the soft side on dvd to me.

[aiman04]

Originally Posted by nmycon

I've been so jealous over the last few weeks seeing Americans comment on the $89.99 release price, while it remained $99.99 in Canada.

Well now Best Buy Canada has dropped the price to $79.99 until September 18th... so SUCK IT!

The price on Amazon hasn't moved a bit, $89.99 since day one. Only 2 weeks to go, hopefully it'll drop to $74.99 by release day.