How will you celebrate the upcoming 30th anniversary of Star Wars???

[yoda313]

So May is the 30th anniversary of the original Star Wars. What will you do for it???

If they come out with Star Wars on bluray or hddvd in May I may just have to go buy an hdtv and a bluray or hddvd player so I can go out and buy them

[Epicurus8a]

Damn, has it been 30 years already? It only seems like a few years ago I was standing in line to attend the first showing.

[BJ_M]

who?

[SquirrelDip]

Damn, has it been 30 years already? It only seems like a few years ago I was standing in line to attend the first showing.

Ditto...

@yoda313: Get laid? After 30 years the MSB must be pretty bad.

[vhelp]

yoda313, well, if something -crazy- does come out of all this, I
might celebrate by getting a widescreen hdtv set. I was so close to
picking one up today -- Olivia 27" for $449.. a floor model -- but I got
scared and ran out of the store. So, even if the prices don't go down
much, at least you can count on those floor model sales, if you look
for them.

But thats probably how I will celebrate. Until then, may the force
be with you, hehe.

-vhelp 4236

[sacajaweeda]

I managed to fit both trilogies onto a DL DVD so I reckon another marathon is in order.

[yoda313]

I managed to fit both trilogies onto a DL DVD so I reckon another marathon is in order.

Six movies on one dual layer??? Did you encode to divx I presume?? What bitrate?? Did you preserve 5.1?

[sacajaweeda]

Yeah, I've had each trilogy on a DVD-R since the last one was released. Then I put them all on a flipper. (DVD-10?) Now it's all on a DL. No divx. It's all DVD-Video spec MPEG and plays in pretty much everything. I can't recall what the bitrate was right off the top of my head though. The biggest pain in the ass was the subtitles.

[BJ_M]

Star Wars, the Lost Interviews

"Coinciding with the 30th anniversary of the Release of Star Wars, Ballantine Books is publishing J.W. Rinzler's "The Making of Star Wars", which bills itself as "The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film." The book is the result of Rinzler's discovery of interviews that Charles Lippincott, Lucasfilm's VP marketing and merchandising in the mid-'70s, conducted with the film's principals between 1975 and 1978."

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/23/film.starwars.reut/index.html

[Marco33]

I'm going to watch the pristeen original trilogy on dvd... no wait that's the SE version.

I'm gonna watch the crapy 4:3 letterbox LD transfer that Lucas threw at us like so much table scraps.