Star Wars on BluRay.......ho hum......

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From: http://forum.dvdtalk.com/10908395-post2121.html

Watched "A New Hope" only so far, and:

-blue 'haze' is still there on the Star Destroyer engines in opening shot.
-the alarm klaxons are different in the opening scene. It's not like any version I know of. It's more subtle.
-blue-tinted walls from 2004 are now properly white again.
-the scene with R2 and 3P0 on the planet's surface still suffers from the fading color saturation from 2004, where the sand and sky's color goes from natural to near-colorless, to oversaturated, all slight, so it's unchanged.

-Yes, there are indeed inconsistent rocks hiding R2.
-Yes, that stupid scream (what the hell is a krayt dragon anyway? ) is there.
-the Han / Greedo scene is the same as 2004 in terms of the effects work done to it, but in this version a few frames were cut from the beginning to make it as sudden as the original, so they still "shoot each other".
-Jabba's scene was not improved at all.

-On board the Falcon, Luke's saber is inconsistent. It starts off blue-tinted instead of green, but it's sort of a turquoise since it wasn't a full-on fix. Occasionally it's white, occasionally it's slightly green-tinted. Nothing was done to the blade itself in terms of new effects.

-Darth Vader's hand gesture when he stopped talking before the "terminate her immediately" line is still there.
How the hell does THAT go unfixed for all this time when it's probably THE most obvious goof since the film's original release?

-Tarkin's dialogue is no longer inconsistent in terms of clarity, the line "then name the system!" from before which was dull is very clear here. At the same time, some lines spoken later inside the trash compactor are both clipped (Han's "look I had everything under control" and that argument) and dull, while subsequent lines later in the scene are clear.

-The lightsaber duel sees improvements to Obi-Wan's saber blade for only a few shots, while Vader's is unaltered. It's not pink anymore, but does come a little close on occasion.

When Obi-Wan's saber completely fizzles out in one shot, just as before it has NOT been fixed.
The glow-tipped rod of his prop saber blade is still there.

-Compare / contrast: The Alderaan explosion is very vivid in color, while the Death Star explosion is colorful for about 2 seconds, then becomes completely colorless, probably as a means of hiding that strange blue-tinted 'edge' of the explosion added to the 2004 version. The edge is still there, just colorless.

Sampled the other two but haven't watched them all the way through and the other changes are indeed there, like Vader's "no" and so on.

Pixo wrote:If George provided HQ copies of the Theatrical Releases, he could then go off and do an infinite amount of revisions and amuse himself no end - without impacting the rest of us.

I was so on the verge of pre-ordering these. Now I'm watching an eBay auction for the OT Limited Edition DVDs with the LD transfers on the Special Features instead.

Pixo

TheGoodDr wrote:Now, this is very cool

http://www.therpf.com/f45/prop-store-first-look-location-buttercup-valley-1982-a-124726/

Also today, it turns out that all 6 Star Wars films might not get the full 3D conversion after all. Why? Well, it seems demand MIGHT not be what Lucasfilm was expecting. Producer Rick McCallum now says they're starting with Phantom Menace and will do one per year in chronological order "if they work." Good luck with that, after pissing off fans with more pointless tweaking of the films. Hey Rick - you want to know what MIGHT get people back in theatres for these? 3D-convert the ORIGINAL theatrical versions, and then promise to release them on Blu-ray with the original versions in both 2D and 3D in PROPER, remastered quality. Yeah, I won't hold my breath. Anyway, more at TG Daily.