Which do you choose?

what is the difference?

>>64488609
widescreen always

>DVD

dropped

>>64488642
One is widescreen and one is fullscreen

>>64488609

I was an idiot and chose the gold one. That's okay because I was only 16 at the time so all is forgiven.

>>64488685
What is the difference?

>>64488730
Widescreen is the original aspect ratio. Fullscreen is cropped for 4:3 TVs

basically fullscreen is for retards who can't deal with black bars on the screen

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you choose this silly

>>64488762
Why do these black bars exist at all?

>>64488780
How's disc rot treating you?

>>64488793
Because the movies are in around 2.35:1 wide ratio, but TVs in the 90s were around 1.35:1 ratio and tvs now are around 1.73:1, therefore the movie is wider than the screen.

>>64488831
You make digital copies of the laserdisc, silly goose.

>>64488793
do you even into aspect ratios? movies are filmed in an extremely wide aspect ratio, whereas TVs are either in 4:3 (almost square) or 16:9 (widescreen). film aspect ratio is wider than both, so when you put a movie on a tv, it's scaled to fit the screen while preserving the aspect ratio, thus resulting in black bars. that is. whereas if you get the fullscreen version, it fucks the aspect ratio to make it fit the whole screen, making the picture look shite.

>>64488609
I choose Harmy's

>>64488860
I guess cinema screens have been (and still are?) 2.35:1 ratio?

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>>64488642

>>64489140
top looks better

>>64488962
Movies used to be 1.35:1 until the 50s, when, in order to compete with television, etc, etc, we've all heard this shit a thousand times before.

>>64489166
OMEGA PANAVISION

>>64489140
With the black bars I see less of the picture.

>Buying pan & scan shit

Give me OAR. Always.

Bought the silver one back in the day and never looked back.

>>64488831
not watching superior laser disc edition with out the lucas added crap

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>>64488609
CED if you want it as was.

>>64489813
Just forget Star Wars until the Disney sets. I'm sure they'll do a special "original cut" set.

>>64490064
Only if they manage to make a deal with Fox, since they own the original Star Wars forever.

>>64490116
If they can't, rip Star Wars. Uncut Empire and Jedi would still be nice.

>>64490116
Fox literally made that god awful Fantastic Four reboot and lost hundreds of millions of dollars just so they wouldn't have to give the rights to the Fantastic Four to Disney. They would rather lose huge sums of money than allow another company even the POTENTIAL to make money

They will hold onto Star Wars distribution rights for all time

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>that friend whose family had a widescreen television but their DVD player was still set to output in 4:3 so everything looked stretched extra wide, even things that were already presented in widescreen

>>64490341
Disney already has digital rights to every movie but Star Wars. Why do you think Force Awakens was a fucking remake?

>>64490582
Which means they own the clips on the internet. But they can't distribute without fox letting them.

flashback to middle school sleepover trying to convince my friends to pick widescreen instead of fullscreen for some shit like rush hour 2 or something. fullscreen won ;__;

>>64490777
I know that feel friend. I always lost as well. Could never get them to understand and even if some did they didn't care. Thanks to widescreen tvs the tyranny of full screen is at an end though.

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>>64490735
Actually, I think they can.

>>64490950
Well, fuck.

>>64488725
You should have killed yourself.

>>64488762
>Fullscreen is cropped for 4:3 TVs
not always true, sometimes their open matte
like the Back To The Future dvd boxset
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_TVxIfl_UI

>>64490950
Man, Attack Clones was always my favourite

>>64488609
I find it mind boggling anyone manages to enjoy fullscreen. I get treated like some autistic nerd whenever I bring up the benefit of watching in widescreen.

Went to my friend's place before seeing TFA to watching ROTJ and he pull out the gold box. I told him I had the widescreen version in my car and he REFUSED to watch it in anything but fullscreen. Having not watched a fullscreen movie in years I figured it would be no big deal.

HOLY CRAP is it painful. Just watching the opening crawl I was distraught at how poorly it fit on the screen. At the obviously zoomed in scenes were disgusting. My friend event commented something along the lines of "It's so hard to read the lines when they come on screen!" I mentioned that widescreen would fix that but he wouldn't have it.

>>64491516
why cant there be fullscreen without black bars

>>64490064
Just watch the despecialized versions

>>64491516
You're not wrong but an autistic nerd is exactly how you come off in this post m8.

>>64491516
>Having not watched a fullscreen movie in years I figured it would be no big deal.
>HOLY CRAP is it painful
Had the same experience recently. Got out the old VHS tapes of the original trilogy (1995 edition before the special editions) and enjoyed it thoroughly. But the full screen was still extremely annoying.

>>64491516
>he REFUSED to watch it in anything but fullscreen.
Why is this person your friend

>>64492010
Wanna know the sad part? He graduated from film school two years ago.

And he prefers the prequels.

>and he was a good friend

>>64492060

Then he obviously learned nothing.

>>64490341

Their distribution rights on the rest of the films expire in 2020, they'll essentially have no choice but to sell the last one.

>>64488609
Why would they give the shittier version the better box?

>>64488609
I got the silver one back in 2004. I lost the box though

>>64490582
Will Episode VIII be a remake of Empire Strikes Back but way fucking better?

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my brother bought this for my dad's 64th birthday
badass bluray box set bitches better recognize

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>>64493068
The Bluray remasters are the best versions as far as visual-quality goes... but what He did to RotJ is an atrocity.

>>64488793
Cus black people like to be drinking around other black people and whites don't want em in their bars anyway

>>64489491
how many times have I heard that
parents saying that shit fuckin triggered
reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

>>64493179
>but what He did to RotJ is an atrocity.
You talking about the song and dance number?

>>64493334
>You talking about the song and dance number?
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

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>>64490582
Shit, son. You are 100% correct.

>>64493381
>>64493381
not original anon, but yeah those.

>>64493381
Also cutting Yub Nub to replace it with the natural wonders sound track.

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>>64493381
>>64493334
>>64493427

You rang?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jzZOgLH4KU

It's not THAT bad

>>64493429
>implying cutting Yub Nub wasn't a great improvement

Sure the song they replaced with was still pretty cheesy in a different way, but it worked a lot better.

>>64493678
It's only saving grace is that you can laugh hysterically at it and mock the crap out of it.

NAH NAH NAH! OOO TEEE AAAYY!!!

>>64493678
>it's not that bad
oh hello, reddit!

>>64493678
>people actually like the OT

fuck me in the ass

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>>64493678
>>64493750
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1RhKfFhpIjo

>>64493429
Yub Nub was always shit and a terrible way to end the trilogy. One of the few good changes he made was getting rid of it.

>>64493808
lost it at "chimmy changa"

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>>64493815
>Yub Nub was always shit
I KNOW WHERE YOU SLEEP MOTHERFUCKER

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>>64493678

>implying you wouldn't fuck the living daylights out of CGI Sy Snootles

>>64494640

THICK

>>64493808

i love k-pop

>>64489895
I have literally never seen one of these things. I didn't even know they existed.

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>>64494640
I'd hit that with an orbital bombardment from a Super Star Destroyer. Fuck you Lucas.

>>64493808
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1aQZmsnzDw5

>>64490735
>>64490950
Look carefully, it's the original that's tied up in the original agreement with Fox for distribution. Empire and all the rest afterwards aren't subject to it but the original is.

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>>64493179
>The Bluray remasters are the best versions as far as visual-quality goes
>He doesn't watch the despecialized editions

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>>64496163
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH7n_koR8tc

>>64493678
My parents tell me they both knew the writing was on the wall after the special editions were each progressively more unabashedly terrible, but that they took me to the phantom menace anyway.
T-thanks guys.

What is wrong with George Lucas and his obsession with shitty CGI?

>>64493678
For some reason, as a kid, I thought that pit turned her into a slug and put her into Jabba's food bowl, and then he ate her

>>64496296
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1gVeiPMrO2q

>>64488609
I found the Fullscreen version in a thrift store for $2.

I'd rather have widescreen, but at that price I'm not complaining.

>>64496436
You just don't understand how dense it all is.

>>64493751
You kidding m8? Reddit hates the special edition. How about YOU fuck off back to Reddit where you belong.

>>64491232
Ah, you're right. I wish I had thought of that at the time. Fuck, man.

>>64489158
Yep. That's why widescreen is better.

>>64488725
My brother got the gold vhs box set for Christmas in 97, it was the only version I had access to for a good while til I learned how to torrent - the special editions are terrible, some improvements are okay like the color balancing and mixing but there are way too many unforgivable additions like the cgi Jabba and the infamous scream in empire

I eventually stopped trying to find the PERFECT trilogy set at thrift stores once I saw that Harmy's recuts basically give us the closest thing we're searching for when it comes to the perfect OT collection

>>64488609
>299x200

Another useless OP.

>>64493678
Anyone have the lyrics to this masterpiece?

>>64493808
How was he able to record that with a straight face?

>>64496551
They way its cut makes it seem like jabba gets an award for feeding the thing.

>>64488860
>>64488934
>>64488962


Is there a reason that theres 1.66 and 2.35 still? It is just a directorial preference over which widescreen you want?