Star Wars fans release restored 35 mm print of George Lucas' original film

[FlyingPenguin]

It's a whopping 24GB MKV file, available on torrents. I was tempted, but I have an excellent DVD quality 1080p rip of the original 1977 film that looks darn good, and is only 2GB. The quality of this would probably be wasted on me.

http://www.polygon.com/2016/2/17/110399 ... ored-35-mm

[psypher]

There's also the Despecialized versions that a group released as well that puts together a high quality unaltered version of the original films.

[normalicy]

I want the cleaned up new version of Return of the Jedi with just the end returned.

[FlyingPenguin]

Ok, I downloaded it. It's worth it. Looks better than my old copy which I think is a rip from a laserdisc.

Very clean restoration of the original print. They kept it pure, so you still see the original film grain, but that's the way it looked when we first saw it in the theater. Original colors without the exaggerated colors of the Lucas digitally remastered versions. Nice contrast balance too. The scenes going from brightly lit exteriors to dark interiors look great.

If you're a purist, I'd recommend it.

[normalicy]

Hmmmm, well, I might have to grab this after all. Though, it'll bug me that I don't have the other two in the same quality.

[FlyingPenguin]

I used the PortableApp's version of DVDStyler (the regular freeware installer version has a nasty adware PUP) to burn it to a DVD (they even include box and DVD label art with the mkv file). The file was to bog for my trust old copy of DVD architect - it just choked on it.

The DVD came out good, and plays fine on a regular DVD player, but according to CloneDVD it has errors in it, and it it can't rip it. Media player doesn't like it either. I'm trying some alternative DVD burning software.

I also did an MP4 conversion using Handbrake that came out perfect, and is 10 MB. Media player won't play nice with mkv files so I convert everything to MP4.