I had this on releas on my GameCube and really enjoyed it. Several years ago, I played through it again and it holds up really well. The combat gets a bit repetitive and the camera can sometimes get stuck in a strange position but apart from that, it was a lot of fun.

I'm interested to see how this turns out because they're HD masters taken from the original broadcast tapes.

Therefore it will look better than DVD at least. I'll await the reviews.

I don't know about that instance in particular but that's not to say it didn't happen. As new sound mixes were created over the first few years, I think different sounds and lines were tinkered with.

The only one that I definitely know of is during Han and Chewie's escape from the Death Star.

You can hear a Trooper shouting "close the blast doors". Then once they're closed, a Trooper hurriedly shouts, "open the blast doors, open the blast doors!" I can't remember which, but one of those two lines was added at a later date, I'm sure.

There's a lovely ten minute video on the BFI YouTube channel talking about this lovely Technicolour print of the film.

I'm pretty sure the only reason everyone is calling this rare is because it doesn't have the "episode 4" title which was added later.

This is the same film, for people of a certain age, grew up with on TV and VHS. I don't understand why it's being sold as a version barely anyone has seen.

If you want a version no one has seen, in the Lucasfilm archives is a copy of Star Wars where the travelling shots in the Falcon and land speeder were achieved with rear projection. Just like the TV shows of the 70s and 80s when characters were talking in cars.

I can't believe we thought that tank controls were good back then.

Apart from different sounds mixes and adding the title "A New Hope" for it's re-release in 1980 (I think), there were no significant changes until the Special Editions in 1997.

I made it to the part where Liam rips the arms off the bad guy and stopped watching. That's only ten seconds into the trailer!

I've been searching to find out what happened and thanks to a couple of Reddit posts, I think I know what's going on.

This line of buildable figures wasn't that popular. Apparently figures of droids and masked characters sold the best but the general consensus was that figures with human faces just looks odd.

But despite Jyn Erso's figure being officially retired in April 2018, even as late as last year, people are still finding boxed copies in stores. It just didn't sell.

I'm happy to see the move has been successful and welcome @[email protected] (Is that the right one, he has accounts everywhere! 😁) to your Mod team.

That guy is fast! I've lost count how many times I've come to post video or news and he's beaten me to it!

A lovely read for Saturday morning, thank you. I'm really surprised to learn that Cyberpunk is running sub HD on the Switch 2 and then being upscaled. Maybe I don't really understand it properly but I guess the filters and technology hide the jank?

As the article states, this was screened at the London BFI the other day. It's an original technicolour print from 1977. There's a ten minute video about it here.

I've heard interviews with the people at the BFI and if I remember correctly, they have a film scanner capable of 12k scans. The films in the archive all get digital scans made for backup purposes.

So sitting on a hard drive, somewhere at the BFI, is probably a huge 4K scan of this very print.

But I presume the best we will have access to is 4K77.

Just a simple kitchen timer.