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- 02-03-2007 09:17 AM #1
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Proud Staff MemberStar Wars Trilogy in HD on HBO
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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away...
HBO-HD is showing the Empire Strikes Back in HD today. The original Star Wars (or what my nine year old refers to as Episode IV: A New Hope, premieres 2/4.
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- 02-03-2007 09:18 AM #2
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Proud Staff MemberChecked the HBO schedule... looks like we'll have to wait another month for Return of the Jedi in HD. But who cares. This is great!
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- 02-03-2007 09:20 PM #3
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Proud Staff MemberYeah, just saw IV in my guide for the morning...
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- 02-04-2007 08:21 AM #4
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Proud Staff MemberTook a quick look at Empire. In OAR; looked really good, but waiting for IV to record, to watch them in order.
Star Wars: A New Hope starts in 40 minutes (9am MST, 11am EST).
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- 02-05-2007 08:24 AM #5
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Proud Staff MemberI watched both Star War and the Empire Strikes Back. Great flicks but the HD version of HBO does not look any better than a regular DVD. I have both DVDs. It looks like the only way to watch these great movies in HD will be when they come out on BR or HD DVD. Otherwise, HBO is just as good as regular DVD.
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I think you might be exagerating a bit Sean.
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- 02-05-2007 09:33 AM #7
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Proud Staff MemberYou think it was much better than DVD?
- 02-05-2007 11:38 AM #8
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Proud Staff MemberI will pull the DVD for Empire and run them next to each other for my own comparison; I thought it looked good though on HBO. Haven't looked at SW yet; too busy yesterday.
Sean -- was the version of Empire (which I have only seen a small amount of so far) the original, or the 1996 re-do?
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- 02-05-2007 07:27 PM #9
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Proud Staff MemberWatching Episode IV right now, and I think there is a clear difference between it and the DVD. It looks great.
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- 02-06-2007 08:05 PM #10
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Proud Staff MemberAm watching Star Wars now, and while I think the PQ is good; some scenes are better than others. Then again, it might just be that it looks like a film made in 1977.
and it is the 1996 re-do; I noticed the scene with Jabba and Han in the hangar bay on Tatooine. Most definitely not from the original 1977 version.
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