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Got mine on Monday, absolutely fantastic - sound and picture are fantastic a couple of tweaks (new voice for Boba Fett - same as Jango Fett from AOTC)

The additional material is fairly extensive too, what does anyone else think about the DVRAB?
 
Only watched the first one so far. The picture is good with no grain although I feel lacking a bit of sharpness probably to hide some of the grain and reduce digital artifacting. The effects are well cleaned up but the new computerised animations shown up like a sore thumb.

However I was not so impressed with the sound. Voices are often drowned out by the effects and are only clear during quite sections. This is probably due to over pepping up of the effects track. Also the vocal tracks show up massive differences in tonal qualities during the dialogue probably due to the different recordings and mics used and studio dubbing done later on. This is so very evident that when you do hear a piece of speech with a good clear recording it makes the rest sound rather dull and muffled. A section which particularly shows up this is when Luke is practicing with the light sabre on the Falcon. I also think the thunderous bass sound of the Falcon is overdone in comparison to the sound level of everything else. The parts when it meants the Death Star just after the layer change made me scramble for the remote in order to protect the speakers from overload. But then I found myself wanting to turn the volume up again because everything else seemed too quite.

Overall considering it's age it's good, but we're so used to better quality these days it seems a little disappointing at times.
 
Had a very Star Warsy weekend... Watched all the movie. Played a bit of Star Wars Battlefront (Great game BTW!)... Even thinking of booting up my Star Wars Galaxies account again... No... I know it's rubbish... and i'll regret it in the morning... must... resist... ;)
 
comicsansserif said:
However I was not so impressed with the sound. Voices are often drowned out by the effects and are only clear during quite sections. QUOTE]

I haven't watched mine yet - only got it yesterday, however, regarRAB your comment above I'm finding this with a lot of 'action' movies. I find that I have to sit there with the volume control and am constantly turning it up or down. I found LOTR trilogy very bad for this and found it quite hard to hear what they were saying.

Does anyone know why this is??
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Arwen1972 said:
Everyone seems to have an answer for this :D :) There are loaRAB thrown around (request of director, unhappy co-incidence, etc) but this seems the most convincing I've heard:

Movie Theatres are very large spaces with speakers hung up very highly on the walls. This sounRAB great whereever you are sitting because of the levels involved.
However, in the confines of the home, the spacing isn't as dynamic and can therefore create 'over ramping' of SFX and leaves the vocal track sounding very low.
Also, don't forget that whilst 3 speakers are generally involved in speech, there are 5 (or more) speakers and a sub-woofer that are used for SFX.

Secondly, many people have combated this effect by changing the levels on their amps for each of the speakers. Not the perfect solution, but an alternative for those that are really bothered....
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This is true. In 2007 he is planning to release a HD-DVD box set of all six films with extra discs, which are rumoured to include all the famous deleted scenes from IV V and VI.
 
I have now watched Empire and found that the sound on this is much better and totally consistent when compared with Star Wars. The special effects aren't overcooked and the speech is never drowned out. The difference between the two films is quite marked.
 
To cure the quiet voices, you need to increase the volume of your front center channel (either on your amp, or on the dvd player if your watching thru tv speakers) until you can hear the vocals all the time.
 
Yeh... I noticed the sound was a bit up and down on A New Hope. Seemed worse in the first half of the film. Half way through Empire, and that seems fine. :)
 
Just watched all 3 movies, and i dont know if its just my box set or my dvd player, but all films seem quite jerky on a scene or layer change. Is anyone else having the same problem???

Daz
 
I have a gripe about Episode 4. Lucas has went in and tinkered even further with some scenes, like Mos Eisley adding more (unnecessary) bells and whistles, yet there are some scenes that still need work done to them.

Check out the horrible optical composite lines around the tie-fighters after the Falcon escapes from the Death Star.

Some of the scenes of the Death Star in the final battle still look like a crappy plastic kit. Why didn't he go in and CG the whole scene.
 
There weren't any more bit's added than was in the '97 release. There were a tweaks to those changes (like the way the speeder came into Mos Eisley, or redoing that awful Jabba model from '97.)

I would agree that some of those tweaks were a bit ott. Was hoping he might have toned them down a bit. The bit in Mos Eisley as they enter with the Jawas on the Janta always stood out (in a bad way), and there is a fly through on Bespin in Empire the is obviously CGI (basically, cause it flys between 2 buildings in a way that you couldn't do with a model and a camera.)

The CGI works best when used subtlety. Adding extra stormtroopers. Background characters. Extra buildings etc... I'm quite glad he's kept a mix of the original footage and cgi, rather than replacing whole scenes... I just wish some of the CGI bits didn't have large pink neon signs saying "LOOK I'M CGI" over them... ;)

I take your point on some of the comp lines though. There were a couple of bit I did wonder why they didn't deal with them.

:)
 
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