XPost: alt.fan.starwars
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"C'Pi" wrote in message
news:ibtnmc$hvl$1@news.eternal-september.org...
> Duggy wrote:
> > On Nov 16, 5:56 pm, Sandman wrote:
> >> In article <4ce1d50d$0$1612$742ec...@news.sonic.net>,
> >>
> >> sgor...@changethisparttohardbat.com wrote:
> >>> In rec.arts.sf.starwars.misc Sandman wrote:
> >>>> I can understand the kind of sheer work that would have to go into
> >>>> restoring the originals and why he would focus on the versions he
> >>>> actually prefers himself as a director.
> >>>
> >>> This presumes that it would be expensive to do so. Heck, if he
> >>> simply re-released the already-existing laserdisc masters (that
> >>> were used for the 2006 bonus disk) with the anamorphic switch set
> >>> to "on", a lot of people would be thrilled. That would cost
> >>> absolutely nothing.
> >>
> >> I didn't know the laserdisc edition of Star Wars was digital 1080p
> >> video.
> >>
> >> Laserdiscs had 425 lines resolution of analog video. I have a hard
> >> time assuming that the supposed master for this low-resolution format
> >> would be suited for a bluray release. And said master would also
> >> probably still be analog, so the same thing applies.
> >>
> >> I read somewhere that the Bluray release will be the first
> >> all-digital restoration of the original trilogy (SE, that is) and
> >> that the DVD release was a mostly analog restoration and then
> >> transfer to digital. I can't remember where I read it and I could be
> >> mistaken, of course.
> >
> > Well there you go with your facts. Facts are just going to anny him.
>
> He's going to sprout red hair and start singing?
The DVDs'll come out
Tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar
That tomorrow
There'll be DVDs!
Just thinkin' about
Tomorrow
Clears away the VHS tapes,
And the sorrow
'Til there's none!
...
-)
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