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Mrbill points to this USA Today story on the
digital makeover given to the original Star Wars trilogy, noting that the digitized films have also been converted to HD for later release as high-definition DVDs.
He's not making a whole lot of money from me. I'm not buying this release. Nor am I likely to be the HD version of this release when it arrives.
I would gladly pay $200 for good digital transfers of the 1977, 1980, and 1983 versions of the original trilogy. Seriously. I loved those films, and would like to own DVDs of them in all their unvarnished glory.
Since Lucas is no longer interested in selling me the movies as they once were, I'll probably just have to by bootleg LD rips off eBay or something.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
I watched the latest Star Wars release in the much-hyped digital projection format. It looked terrible. It's a method of saving money since most consumers aren't very discriminating. And THX is an utterly worthless certification nowadays. Look at the "THX" computer speakers out there. Garbage with a fancy logo.
Its not like George is up at Skywalker Ranch snorting his wealth up his nose like most of Hollywood. The man spends his money on making the "film" process better.
OK, wow.... Who cares what he does with his personal fortune? The point is that he's screwing with "art", seemingly with the intent of generating more revenue. It's one thing to make money off of your hard work and expression in order to continue such an activity, but it is quite another to do so with the sole intent of lining your pockets. From what I can tell, Lucas was abnout the art when he first started to pitch ep. 4, but since then, he's seemed to buckle against the very establishment he was fighting against. Once a movie is released to the public, I do not think it should be (sensitive eyes turn away) fucked with.
I don't see who I could be trolling. All those women who read Slashdot? All those guys who like girls who read Slashdot?
Let's be serious...
Game... blouses.
"Of course. Release the DVDs now. Special edition DVDs next year. Limited Edition DVDs the year after that. Then redo the whole cycle again on high definition DVDs, making it so that people have to buy the trilogy six times, spending a couple hundred bucks."
Such are the amoral evils of copyright. Vote against it each chance you get.
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
"English Subtitles (the kind burned into the image for alien speak)"
How pathetic is that!
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
"The man spends his money on making the "film" process better. Look at what ILM has done for films since 1977. How about THX sound? Yeah, thank George Lucas for that. He'll also be one of the reasons why movies will eventually been shown at the theatres in digital form. At such time, it won't matter if you go to the theatre on opening night or two weeks later, the "film" will look the same. No "cigarette burns," vertical strip lines, or any other glaring issues with the projection will you ever deal with again."
If he hadn't someone else would have. And the reaosn they do it is: TO MAKE MORE MONEY - and to save money (cheaper not having to make celluloid copies for instance)
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating