Despecialized is horribly out of date now (it's still locked to 720p and uses some upscaled laserdisc footage.) What you're looking for are the D+77 versions. These take the official 4K UHD blu ray transfer (which was actually done really well but still is the special edition) and splices in footage from 4K77 when appropriate. I'd probably recommend those versions if you just want the theatrical to watch
Star Wars is D+77, Empire's D+80 and Jedi is called OTD83. Hope that helps
You can join the OriginalTrilogy forums and you'll find them in a bit but you can also find them on public trackers too (and usually downsized to about 10Gbs) like 1337x.to.
It's worth noting though that the 4K77 versions are also really good as well. It depends on what you want. D+77 is more like what an official 4K blu ray from Disney would look like whereas 4K77 is literally what it looked like in cinemas in 1977 (so it's a lot more grainy than most modern transfers and the colors are very different in places but that kinda adds to the charm)
Good shit, thanks anon, there's more of these projects than I can keep up with. Always knew the Harmy ones as the definitive ones. I'll look into 4K77.
Which was a straight up encode of the 1992 LD version, so not only in ass quality, but still altered. The version of rhe movies that was shown in theaters was never released on home video. There's a whole Wookiepedia article on this.
OTgay gen Xers have to be the most pathetic, autistic man children to ever live. >NOOOOO I can't watch the official release because it raped my childhood worse than my dad did my ass,!!!!
Meanwhile in that picture >Left is low res black crush hell >center is super washed out and makes the saber effect look like a hentai wiener >right is the only one with balanced colors, black levels, good amounts of detail and a proper interpretation of the sfx
But sure, download a 2tb """fixed""" version of your blockbuster flick, surely that will let you return to the days before you had your ass violated by men on the horur.
>right is the only one with balanced colors, black levels, good amounts of detail and a proper interpretation of the sfx
Sorry to be autistic but no. The 2011 blu ray (and 2004 dvds cause it's the same transfer) has completely botched colors (it leans towards mangenta for some fricking reason) and crushed blacks. You're literally, objectively wrong. That said they fixed it for the 2019 4K UHD version (pic related is the 2011 version on the left, 2019 on the right)
By all means call people pathetic, autistic man-children but everything else you said is completely wrong. I mean the colors are so fricked in that scene Luke's lightsaber is green for some reason
It is not the same exact transfer you ignorant homosexual. I own both versions. The Blu-ray is based on the same HD scan as was made for the DVD trilogy but has less aggressive color correction and DNR applied. This is why the saber effect looks terrible in general in '04 but is much improved on the BD. The entire Death Star II fight is corrected as well, on the DVD it looks like shilouttes and it does not on the BD.
Yout picture shows the intent of the BD to be color corrected, assuming it's the left of the unlabeled pic. And if the right is the UHD release, then it's simply a matter of sticking closer to the colors of the film stock as they were when scanned. They're clearly washed out and faded, which is a fine thing to prefer, but the BD has been corrected in an attempt to preserve the intended cool hues.
The blacks are worse as a result, but at 1080p on a 1080p screen, in motion, the transfer is vibrant and unbothering, compared to the DVD which has always looked genuinely poor.
>It is not the same exact transfer you ignorant homosexual. >The Blu-ray is based on the same HD scan as was made for the DVD trilogy
So it's based on the same transfer
>oh no the colors look slightly different
Grow up
>barfs all over youre screen
thank you george
You did nothing to stop this then, now look at the mess we are in.
wtf was i supposed to do? bomb the skywalker ranch?
>cartoon animals popping up over the actual movie
>Han dodging lasers with his new snake neck
>NOOOOOO
>Macklunkey
he was 100% trolling
Autism is not an age related.
4k all the way
Harmy seems pointless now
I want my Star Wars to look as shit as possible, because that means it's the least tampered with
the print scans are best.
Maclunky??
the 1992 laser disc release
Despecialized is horribly out of date now (it's still locked to 720p and uses some upscaled laserdisc footage.) What you're looking for are the D+77 versions. These take the official 4K UHD blu ray transfer (which was actually done really well but still is the special edition) and splices in footage from 4K77 when appropriate. I'd probably recommend those versions if you just want the theatrical to watch
Star Wars is D+77, Empire's D+80 and Jedi is called OTD83. Hope that helps
what a waste of time. just watch your funny slapstick cg creatures, they're not that bad.
Where does a homie find those? They have their own site?
You can join the OriginalTrilogy forums and you'll find them in a bit but you can also find them on public trackers too (and usually downsized to about 10Gbs) like 1337x.to.
It's worth noting though that the 4K77 versions are also really good as well. It depends on what you want. D+77 is more like what an official 4K blu ray from Disney would look like whereas 4K77 is literally what it looked like in cinemas in 1977 (so it's a lot more grainy than most modern transfers and the colors are very different in places but that kinda adds to the charm)
Good shit, thanks anon, there's more of these projects than I can keep up with. Always knew the Harmy ones as the definitive ones. I'll look into 4K77.
Whatever version is closest to the unaltered original trilogy dvds.
>Whatever version is closest to the unaltered original trilogy dvds.
such a thing doesn't exist. The last unedited release was on VHS.
False. The unaltered trilogy was released on DVD as a special extra on the original trilogy's limited edition DVDs in 2006.
Which was a straight up encode of the 1992 LD version, so not only in ass quality, but still altered. The version of rhe movies that was shown in theaters was never released on home video. There's a whole Wookiepedia article on this.
The difference between those are negligible, they all approximate the experience better then any of the official release.
I once found a 8mm copy of ANH at a thrift store. i probably should have bought it
OTgay gen Xers have to be the most pathetic, autistic man children to ever live.
>NOOOOO I can't watch the official release because it raped my childhood worse than my dad did my ass,!!!!
Meanwhile in that picture
>Left is low res black crush hell
>center is super washed out and makes the saber effect look like a hentai wiener
>right is the only one with balanced colors, black levels, good amounts of detail and a proper interpretation of the sfx
But sure, download a 2tb """fixed""" version of your blockbuster flick, surely that will let you return to the days before you had your ass violated by men on the horur.
>right is the only one with balanced colors, black levels, good amounts of detail and a proper interpretation of the sfx
Sorry to be autistic but no. The 2011 blu ray (and 2004 dvds cause it's the same transfer) has completely botched colors (it leans towards mangenta for some fricking reason) and crushed blacks. You're literally, objectively wrong. That said they fixed it for the 2019 4K UHD version (pic related is the 2011 version on the left, 2019 on the right)
By all means call people pathetic, autistic man-children but everything else you said is completely wrong. I mean the colors are so fricked in that scene Luke's lightsaber is green for some reason
It is not the same exact transfer you ignorant homosexual. I own both versions. The Blu-ray is based on the same HD scan as was made for the DVD trilogy but has less aggressive color correction and DNR applied. This is why the saber effect looks terrible in general in '04 but is much improved on the BD. The entire Death Star II fight is corrected as well, on the DVD it looks like shilouttes and it does not on the BD.
Yout picture shows the intent of the BD to be color corrected, assuming it's the left of the unlabeled pic. And if the right is the UHD release, then it's simply a matter of sticking closer to the colors of the film stock as they were when scanned. They're clearly washed out and faded, which is a fine thing to prefer, but the BD has been corrected in an attempt to preserve the intended cool hues.
The blacks are worse as a result, but at 1080p on a 1080p screen, in motion, the transfer is vibrant and unbothering, compared to the DVD which has always looked genuinely poor.
>It is not the same exact transfer you ignorant homosexual.
>The Blu-ray is based on the same HD scan as was made for the DVD trilogy
So it's based on the same transfer
>makes the saber effect look like a hentai wiener
Reevaluate your life or end it coomer