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  1. phbart
    The OST album is indeed an embarrassment. But the entire score is masterful, not underrated at all. ESB first, with SW and ROTJ tied in second. What's TPM? I only know Duel of the Fates, and that's it.
  2. phbart
    Up until this release, I always thought the 1995 mono bootleg sounded the best. Certainly better than the 1998 and 2010 releases.
  3. phbart
    Now her "WTF" reaction makes more sense.
  4. phbart
    Here's a hi-rez cover without Sissy Spacek... and the river. You can't even notice the cigarette on the 600x600 resolution version.
  5. phbart
    Hard to judge from a 6,1" screen. I'll be at work in a few hours, and I'll take a look at it on a much bigger screen.
  6. phbart
    They pobrably tried to match it with the all digital prequel look. I also think they made these new masters with streaming in mind. Taking out the grain makes it easier to compress the video with lower bitrates.
  7. phbart
    A friend got it from a private torrent tracker. It's quite a large file, enough to fit a BD-25 disc. He said it's been around for some five years now, or more. I got it earlier this year but only watched it recently. I guess so. This website says it is, as they don't mention any other version available. https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k80/ Too bad the 4K restoration they're working on will take quite a while. Glad to see SW and Jedi 35mm 4K are out already. Been downloading for days now (around 70 GB for EACH file ).
  8. phbart
    These days I watched an HD scan of an original 35mm theatrical print of ESB. Grain, dirt, cue marks, everything a theatrical print from 1980 should have. The sound was from the optical print as well. Surprisingly, it gave me a perfect 4 channel (LCR and mono surround) configuration when decoded with Dolby Pro-Logic. What a great time I had revisiting my favorite SW film that way! I can imagine how it felt to actually watch it on an actual big screen. Now let's hear the OST properly, shall we?
  9. phbart
    Then it's a scam, not a scan.
  10. phbart
    He was busy trying to hack Alexander Desplat's facebook profile.
  11. phbart
    I've never seen Episodes II and III.
  12. phbart
    Now seriously. It's this one we've been craving for
  13. phbart
    You're wrong. THIS is all you need.
  14. phbart
    I remember when I first saw the cassettes of SW and ESB, and the glorious "Two LPs on one cassette". Wonders of technology, I thought.
  15. phbart
    Doe is correct. Composer is John Williams. John... Doe...
  16. phbart
    Interesting. Didn't think pressed CDs could be stretched like that too. I though it was a luxury of CD-Rs only. So MM could've squeezed another 2:30 or so of alternates... and add another $2 for the price.
  17. phbart
    79:32 mins. Maybe the longest from a specialty label I've seen. From a CD-R, the longest I got to burn was 82:34 mins. That is, playable all the way through in any device I tested, recent and vintage. Anything longer than that is a shot in the dark. I tried an 83 mins one and surprisingly it only worked in my car stereo, which is the last player I expected it to work. With the rest of the devices it started skipping at around 82:35. So I established 82:34 as a safe zone. Are there any pressed CDs that are that long? Never heard of any.
  18. phbart
    I think they used at least two different sources for the unreleased tracks of ToD. Judging from "Short Round Helps" (from 0:00 to 1:15 is one source and the rest is obviously from another source, regardless of speed). Same with "The Broken Bridge/British Relief, where "Broken Bridge" sounds significantly better than "British Relief", also regardless of speed. Maybe the only wise thing they did on Raiders.
  19. phbart
    Maybe you described exactly what could've happened when ToD digital audio was transferred in 2008. 48kHz was already possible in 1984 using the Sony DASH system, according to this Wikipedia article (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Audio_Stationary_Head), so it's likely that in 2008, when they were transferring the audio, they thought: "Oh well, a 1984 digital recording can't be more than 44.1kHz". And here we are, with ToD music slower than a three-legged mule. Don't know which system was used for ToD, but I believe Bruce Botnick always liked to try new things, and he already used digital on E.T. and Poltergeist (but using U-Matic cassette tapes with a PCM adaptor, possibly the Sony PCM-1600, which only allowed 44.1kHz).
  20. phbart
    Wow! A wealth of material with very interesting info. I just love those tech stuff. Reading the Wendy Carlos page, NOW I remembered where I read the stuff about baking tapes soooo many years ago. That page is a true time capsule of how websites were in the mid 1990's and very early 2000's. This might explain the pitch issues in some of the tracks of Temple of Doom from Concord, which allegedly came from 1/4" digital masters tapes. The dumb-asses must have played the tapes in a machine with different sampling rate then than the ones from the recording, and never bothered to correct it later. If you have that Intrada release, the booklet has a very interesting story about how they managed to extract the digital audio from those 3M tapes.
  21. phbart
    They haven't baked The Imperial March yet. What are they saving that for? A fudge for desert?
  22. phbart
    I read somewhere that baking the tapes is an efficient method of getting moisture out of it so they don't get sticky. Literally, the tapes are placed in an oven and stay there for hours. Maybe they overbaked the tapes and served them as toasts for breakfast.
  23. phbart
    Which worries me because they had more 24-track tapes in 1997. I wonder what happened to those...
  24. phbart
    Same with Yoda's Theme.
  25. phbart
    Could be The Reivers. Intrada's announcement could be like "From the people who brought you The River, here comes The Reivers".
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