Author Topic: DVD Verdict (Read 1328 times)

GRUNHERZ · « **Reply #30 on:** September 30, 2004, 06:59:35 AM »

Thx Skuzzy!

And LD was great! Long live LD, especially the new LD smell..

Nilsen · « **Reply #31 on:** September 30, 2004, 07:43:52 AM »

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DV output to a firewire port requires about 3.6MB/s of storage. You need to use an NTFS filesystem as FAT has a maximum storage limit of 4GB per file.

Aha.. so almost 13 gig then for an hour. Thats no problem since i have over 700gb of storage.

Judge Rob · « **Reply #32 on:** September 30, 2004, 08:35:48 AM »

Sandman,

Thanks for checking out some of our other reviews. When a Slashdot article mentioned the SW review we got pounded with 20,000+ hits. Nice to see that someone ventured off the beaten path and checked out some other stuff.

We have over 30 staff writers, so if you find a reviewer you don't like, try someone else. There is definitely a mix of opinions.

Charon, we gave equal time:

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The trailer does a reasonable job of making you want to play the game, mostly because you get the opportunity to slaughter Ewoks. Isn't this the opportunity we've been waiting for for decades?

Peace. BTW, someone on the Digital software forum at AVS wrote a whole play-by-play of the conversion from LD to DVD. It's worth checking out:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=383743&highlight=Star+Wars+LD+transfer+DVD

Charon · « **Reply #33 on:** September 30, 2004, 09:17:49 AM »

LOL Judge Rob. Might have to check that out

Charon

Nilsen · « **Reply #34 on:** September 30, 2004, 09:55:54 AM »

hehe, i got a great deal on 3 250gb external Lacie drives before the summer. 2 of them are still in the boxes.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #35 on:** September 30, 2004, 04:29:28 PM »

Interesting forum Judge Rob. A bit hard for me to read (pastel color-blind here), but not bad at all. How the heck did you find us?

Urchin · « **Reply #36 on:** September 30, 2004, 05:22:53 PM »

He used the Force.... duh.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #37 on:** September 30, 2004, 05:29:22 PM »

Hehe,..good one Urchin. I did leave the door open for that one. DOH!

CavemanJ · « **Reply #38 on:** September 30, 2004, 06:01:50 PM »

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The nice thing about the SE version is most everything was added, making it easy to remove for melding in with the original.

I did not use the DVD versions at all. Only the two original LD versions.

I used a Bryston 5.1 preamp decoder to get the 5.1 digital recorded into Adobe Premier 1.5 from my Pioneer CLD97 LD player (creating 6 discrete channels of sound). I used Premier to correct the black levels and the missing star field in the opening scene.

Syncing the sound was simple enough. I retained the original sound in Premier and matched it to the newly added sound track, then removed the original sound once that was all synced.

Once I was happy with that, I used Adobe Encore 1.5 to burn the DVD and mix the sound back into DD 5.1 (it can encode DD, but cannot decode it).

So.. you're sayin you've got the original releases of IV, V, and VI on DVD with the 5.1 sound track?

I WANT!!! Too much extraneous crap was added for the release of'em IMO.

Judge Rob · « **Reply #39 on:** September 30, 2004, 06:28:25 PM »

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Originally posted by Skuzzy
Interesting forum Judge Rob. A bit hard for me to read (pastel color-blind here), but not bad at all. How the heck did you find us?

Damn it, Urchin beat me to it. The real answer is that our webmaster is a techie and he tracks the referrers for each review read. Some of you read the Star Wars review yesterday, and out of curiosity I came here to see what your forum was about. It is nice to see someone say "hey, their other reviews are pretty good too" instead of "damn, who needs another 11,000 words about Star Wars?"

For the record, I'm not part of AVS forum, except as a poster. I also hate the color scheme... for a home theater site, they have a bad look. I'm part of http://www.dvdverdict.com, which has an easier to read, if plain, layout.

-tronski- · « **Reply #40 on:** October 01, 2004, 01:48:05 AM »

Well I cracked and got the boxset early (and I have some DVD pirates of the SE LD trilogy) and I just try to ignore or grimace through all the changes as best I can. Mind you the spec features disc are fantastic - the major doco all have the original release(s) scenes not the doctored ones until the end when they mention the re-releases

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The only good Ewok is a dead Ewok.
Charon

the gag reel on the spec features disc have Boba Fett hunting Wicket through the death star

Tronsky

Sandman · « **Reply #41 on:** October 01, 2004, 01:24:07 PM »

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Sandman,

Thanks for checking out some of our other reviews. When a Slashdot article mentioned the SW review we got pounded with 20,000+ hits. Nice to see that someone ventured off the beaten path and checked out some other stuff. We have over 30 staff writers, so if you find a reviewer you don't like, try someone else. There is definitely a mix of opinions.

Charon, we gave equal time:

Peace. BTW, someone on the Digital software forum at AVS wrote a whole play-by-play of the conversion from LD to DVD. It's worth checking out:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=383743&highlight=Star+Wars+LD+transfer+DVD

Thanx for stopping by Rob... I like the format with the mixed reviews and before I discovered the site, I never gave much thought to the quality of a DVD. I'm more into the story than anything else. Of course, if I had a really high-end home theatre system, my opinion might be different.

Found something I didn't know though... Conan the Barbarian... love the DVD, but I was really disappointed in the mono soundtrack. I just didn't realize that it was originally mono.

Judge Rob · « **Reply #42 on:** October 01, 2004, 03:37:36 PM »

Yep, that's what we focus on: The story and characters rather than technical specs, although we're also interested in discussing tech specs as well. Best of both worlds.

Thanks for reading, and please feel free to give us some feedback if we can improve.

Rob

slimm50 · « **Reply #43 on:** October 01, 2004, 04:18:52 PM »

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I do not care for what GL did to the release. I created my own from my two laser disc releases.

Used the original and replaced the sound track of it (Dolby Pro Logic) with the one from the SE release (5.1 Digital), touched up the black levels and fixed some visible effects errors and am a happy camper.

DANG! I'm impressed:eek: