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Star Wars Blu-Ray Junket
Aug. 22nd, 2011 06:27 pmI guess my invite got lost in the mail or something, but some other lucky ducks got to visit Skywalker Ranch a few days ago and sit through a presentation on the Blu-Ray set. Wow! I'm excited! Anybody selling a player for $25, heh heh? Don't laugh, that's how much I paid for my DVD player in 2004 and it still works! So there!
Go over to the Prequel Appreciation Society (link at the top of the page) for linkage to three different sites reporting on the junket. If you don't feel like reading them, here are the bold headliners from the presentation:
1. The prequels were taken from the original theatrical transfer, making for better picture quality and this time the entire picture originally shown on screen is on the Blu-Ray.
2. Digital Yoda!
3. The crossed lightsaber shot from ROTJ that drove people nuts with the 2004 DVD has been corrected.
4. Other goofs, even from the original films, were corrected.
5. Surprises are in the films themselves. What could they be? Hmm...
6. The sound mixes have been fixed too.
I think many of the glitches on the DVDs were either because of the technology available at the time (the last Star Wars DVD came out almost six years ago) or because people were so anxious for Eps IV-VI on DVD. Originally, Lucasfilm was going to wait until after ROTS came out to work on the older films' DVD release but fans wanted 'em ASAP. Now it has had time to see what people want and how it can fix some of the problems. As I've pointed out, fans will find some fault with the movies anyway. But it is trying.
Go over to the Prequel Appreciation Society (link at the top of the page) for linkage to three different sites reporting on the junket. If you don't feel like reading them, here are the bold headliners from the presentation:
1. The prequels were taken from the original theatrical transfer, making for better picture quality and this time the entire picture originally shown on screen is on the Blu-Ray.
2. Digital Yoda!
3. The crossed lightsaber shot from ROTJ that drove people nuts with the 2004 DVD has been corrected.
4. Other goofs, even from the original films, were corrected.
5. Surprises are in the films themselves. What could they be? Hmm...
6. The sound mixes have been fixed too.
I think many of the glitches on the DVDs were either because of the technology available at the time (the last Star Wars DVD came out almost six years ago) or because people were so anxious for Eps IV-VI on DVD. Originally, Lucasfilm was going to wait until after ROTS came out to work on the older films' DVD release but fans wanted 'em ASAP. Now it has had time to see what people want and how it can fix some of the problems. As I've pointed out, fans will find some fault with the movies anyway. But it is trying.
