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Star Wars Coming To Blu-ray In September
wiredog writes "A bundle of all six movies will sell for $139.99, while sets of the original three films, and the three prequels, will go for $69.99 apiece. Obsessive types can pre-order them on Amazon now. Han shot first!"
Well you don't have to -anything- to be frank. But you can't complain about parodies if you keep buying the crap over and over. Yes Lucas is a douche, but on the other hand why not take easy money from suckers?
"A fool and his money are soon parted."
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Evelyn Beatrice Hall, re Voltaire
Upconverting can't magically add more detail. There is a very noticeable difference between a blu-ray and upconverted DVD. And honestly, now that blu-ray players are under $100, and movies tend to be around $20, the price issue isn't that important anymore.
No. That will be later on a different BluRay edition so you can but it again.
It was hand-waved months ago, when they first made the announcement.
http://geektyrant.com/news/2010/8/14/george-lucas-star-wars-blu-ray-coming-in-2011-and-watch-a-de.html
Lucas also went on to explain that the original trilogy films included on the Blu-Ray release will be the remastered special editions.
Releasing the originals is kind of an oxymoron because the quality of the original is not very good. You have to go through and do a whole restoration on it, and you have to do that digitally. It’s a very, very expensive process to do it. So when we did the transfer to digital, we only transferred really the upgraded version.
In other words, no ORIGINAL original trilogy, cause that would mean some "people" would actually have to be "hired" to do some "work" on those and they would presumably require to be "paid" in return.
But have no fear. Few years down the road, and Lucas will have his slaves do that for free.
Or for more actual coffee in their coffee and an additional bathroom brake.
Cause nothing is too good for his slaves if it will help sell everyone yet another "very, very expensive" set of plastic discs.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
I have seen them. And no, they didn't do a lot more than retouches. There's no "unwatchable" scene because of "distracting" CGI. It fits nicely into the background, like it should. The reason you get distracted is because you're looking for reasons to hate, not because they are actually distracting.
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I have seen them. And no, they didn't do a lot more than retouches. There's no "unwatchable" scene because of "distracting" CGI. It fits nicely into the background, like it should. The reason you get distracted is because you're looking for reasons to hate, not because they are actually distracting.
Have you seen Jabba's scene in A newh hope?
sets of the bastardized, chopped up, mutilated corpses of the original three films, and the three prequels
There, fixed that for ya.
And somehow my .sig feels oh-so-appropriate today...
How are you VHS copies compared to DVD?
Blissfully lacking in producer interference.