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A middle-aged nerd from the UK. I like films and write about them, sometimes for www.filmstories.co.ukor my ukfilmnerd.wordpress.com.

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Theres a dedicated fan called Adywan whose made his own special edition version of the trilogy tastefully adding more effects.

Here’s a clip from his version of the Hoth battle where he incorporates the side panel revealing troops inside. (Yes I know the aspect ratio is wrong, not my clip. 😁)

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If you can find them on the net, I highly recommend Adywan’s Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back. He adds a lot of extra details and general tinkering. Some of which are more noticeable than others. He’s been working on these films for years, and only Star Wars and Empire are available as 8gb SD versions. He paused work on Jedi to start the process all over again in HD.

Furthermore, he’s even gone as far as building his own miniatures, building a life-size Solo in carbonite and filming fans in costume to add to his own edits (just for Jedi). If you find his website, he said the next release should be Star Wars: Revisited in HD during the middle of this year, 2024.

EDIT: I fancied watching these myself and went hunting. Star Wars wa released as a 9GB DVD ISO in PAL and NTSC format. Empire was released as a 7.5gb 720P MKV file.

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After a long drought of anything Star Wars, this was very welcome and it turns out it was a great story as well.

I also remember the Dark Horse adaptation being really good as well.

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As mentioned in the article, no one from the first two seem to be involved with this third film. Is there any form of connection to the other two?

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Yeah, Se7en was the first one I remembered. It’s a silly marketing thing that often makes no sense.

The first teaser trailer for Tron: Legacy was revealed at the San Diego Comic Con in 2008. At the end, the title was revealed (excuse the quality, this version of the trailer was never officially released) to be TR2N.

It later transpired that this teaser was a proof of concept test, as Disney had not yet given the project a green light. The trailer was released a year later at the Con and online, but the title had been changed to Tron: Legacy.

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I did read that one of the reasons they gave Tron: Legacy the green light was because they had no big sci-fi franchise of their own. Once they bought Lucasfilm, their problems were solved and that’s why the plans for a third Tron film fell apart years ago.

I have high hopes for this film because I love the franchise.

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As a UK resident, I only know about these because Bill and Ted used some to repair the phone booth time machine.

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Really not interested to be honest. Which is a shame as I used to be a much bigger Star Wars fan.

The last film announcement that really excited me was the Rogue Squadron movie but sadly I think that’s effectively been cancelled.

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This card has two drawbacks as far as I can see. Firstly, there’s no loader to swap between games.

Secondly, it only supports its own format when you back up your own games. The games you download from the net aren’t compatible but it’s assumed the pirates would ‘repack’ their past releases to be compatible.

Here’s a question, would the Switch be oblivious to how the game is stored and download any updates? Do pirated games come complete with the latest available updates?

The DCEU ends not with a bang, but a wimper. (lemmy.ml)

10 years after Zod’s snapped neck, Martha, “some kinda Suicide Squad”, CGI moustache, rennouncing your wish, the hiearchy of power changing, and Speed Force PS1 graphics, the DC Extended Universe finally comes to a close. And it ends the same way it started - with a Rotten score....

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When the review embargo was set for 15 hours after it opened in the UK, I knew the reviews weren’t going to be favourable.

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There was a pilot for a TV show in 2013. The show was based around Axel Foley’s son but Eddie Murphy appears in the pilot.

The studio thought Murphy would make an appearance semi regularly but when he said no, that killed the show from ever happening.

It’s floating around on the internet if you want to see it.

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That’s a video that’s been formatted for YouTube. The quick bit at the front is designed to sit in the ad space of a video you can’t skip. So the idea is to keep you watching when you’d normally skip it.

Help with DVD problem, please.

I got a DVD, never used with cellophane intact, produced in 1993 on ebay. I thought maybe, since I didn’t get a DRM warning, it predated DRM, and I could just copy it to my hard drive, so I did. Both the copy and the DVD are now corrupted and unplayable. I want to fix the DVD then rip it to my hard drive. Googling gives plenty...

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Unless the drive physically scratched the DVD, it’s not corrupted. However, I’ve had a few discs that I’ve stored carefully for decades that just stopped working for no reason. The discs looked flawless with no signs of damage and they refused to work.

What region is the DVD and is your drive set to the same region?

Alternatively, download this DLL file and place it the same directory as your VLC installation. It will then be able to bypass simple region checks but not all.

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I forgot to mention, this was specifically relevant to the UK version of Fraggle Rock as each country has different wraparounds.

The British inserts were filmed first at the TVS Television Theatre in Gillingham, Kent, and later at their larger studio complex in Maidstone (the former since closed and demolished) and presents Fraggle Rock as a rock-filled sea island with a lighthouse. Exterior footage was that of St Anthony’s Lighthouse located near Falmouth in Cornwall. The lighthouse keeper is The Captain (played by Fulton Mackay), a retired sailor who lives with his faithful dog Sprocket. In the third season, as MacKay had died in 1987, the role was played by John Gordon Sinclair as P.K., (the Captain’s nephew) and in the fourth and final season by Simon O’Brien as B.J. (son of the lighthouse’s owner, Mr. Bertwhistle). In 2014, 35 of these British wraparounds were still missing, believed wiped, although subsequent recoveries have gradually reduced this number.[7] As of December 2020, all 96 wraparounds have been found and handed over to the BFI, confirming that the entire UK production still exists in some shape or form.[8] Nickelodeon repeated it in the UK from 1993, as did Boomerang and Cartoonito in 2007. The episodes shown were the original North American versions.

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At least they realised Red Dwarf tinkering was a bad idea and the originals still safely exist. I think they said they used the original negatives for Star Wars which were spliced and used for the Special Editions. They kept telling the public the original negatives for untouched Star Wars no longer exist. I can’t believe that’s true though. George keeps a copy of everything. There even a cut of Star Wars that used rear screen protection instead of blue screen!

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This was a common practice, especially during a certain decade but I forget which. Old tapes were erased to be used again. No thought was given to preserving what was being wiped.

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Reminds me of Fraggle Rock. Due to the television station that produced the show being taken over many times over the years, most of the original broadcast masters have been lost. I think all episodes have been found but they’re mostly at home VHS recordings.

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This was terrible, I only lasted an hour. I understand the budget was probably low and that affected the CGI, so much bad greenscreen. I felt like I was watching the best ever fmv cut scenes from a 90s pc game, one that probably came on about 3 CD-ROMs! 😄

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