http://www.empireonline.co.uk/news/news.asp?story=5151
Apparently they're aiming for Sept. 2004...
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http://www.empireonline.co.uk/news/news.asp?story=5151
Apparently they're aiming for Sept. 2004...
It's certainly taking long enough.
Dare I even ask if they are the orriginal movies?
Original as in pre-enhanced versions? Of course not.
Did you read the original AICN article? The "spy" basically said you're just going to have to believe me and the actual quote didn't say anything about dvd's.
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Originally Posted by Chibi Nappa
It's all about the Definitive LaserDisc collection. :)
hasnt lucas said many times over he has no plans to release them on dvd? nice fuckin thx VHS tapes i got tho. btw, i have a chance to get the LD movies transfered to DVD. assuming the original LD quality is kept in tact what would the quality be?
Lucas never said he wouldn't release the original trilogy on DVD.
He never said he wouldn't release the original trilogy on DVD, but I believe he said he wouldn't release the original versions of the original trilogy on DVD.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dragonmaster Dyne
For non hi-definition output, quality is measured by horizontal resolution, the number of lines from bottom to top of the image projected to your tv.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dragonmaster Dyne
Video format with horizontal resolution estimates:
VHS/VHS-C
220 - 240 lines
Analog TV Broadcast
330 lines
Analog Cable TV
330 lines
DVD-R/-RW/+R/+RW
250 - 400+ lines (Depends on recording speed and compression used)
Laserdisc
400 - 425 lines
Commercial DVD
Up to 540 lines
The quality should remain the same from ld to dvd trasfer. I imagine the way you go about actually doing the transfer (software, compression...) may effect the overall image, but ld to dvd transfer will basically give you ld quality. Also, the quality of the ld's themselves may be in question as to what set you have. The picture quality of the Definitive Collection is no better than the picture quality of the individual '96 remasters, but the original ld's from the '80s are not as good visually as the remasters.