The Star Wars DVD box is really nice. At first I didn't understand how the hell I was supposed to open it and I didn't want to pull at the glued part because I did that with Fox's "The Simpsons Season 1" DVD and it was cool but then the "Season 2" DVD used actual glue and it ****ed up the box and the paper, *******es. And Fox's "The X-Files" series DVDs are also in really ****ty boxes. Anyways, I'm really glad they didn't drop the ball. The Star Wars DVD box is *** sexy. I carefully pulled at it and it came off easily and didn't damage the actual box at all. Then the sliding part and the DVDs; wow...it's so awesome.



So far I've only watched A New Hope. Wow. Lucas did an awesome job making a 27 year old movie look this damn good. And, also, about what I said before, I take it back, Lucas probably will never release the original Original Trilogy on DVD. They used a lot of colour correction for this DVD and they also added little things like to make Tatooine look better from space, so for Lucas to release the original stuff he'd have to get rid of all of those things, and I suppose a real purist could argue that any kind of colour correction is changing the movie, so drawing the line of where the original versions end and the new ones begin would be really difficult if you don't simply put the VHS quality version on DVD.

I still say they should have made the DVDs double-sided, with the original original versions on one side, and the new versions on the other.

I looked at the structure of the dvd with a ripping program (no intent of ripping it, mind you, I'm just curious on the file structure, and I like watching stuff directly w/o hassling dvd menus on my computer) and it turns out that there are 3 versions of the movie on there, each about 7.5 gb roughly, the only difference being the intro scroll is in a different language. Rather than doing that, they could have subsituted the OT for one of those on each disc.

Dual layer dvds are 8 gb usually, but this is just insane. How the hell did they manage to fit three 7.5 gb files on these discs?

I don't think they did.

Something similar has been done before, The Lion King Special Edition has 2 versions of the film on one disc, the only difference between the two is an extra song. The film is split up into before the song, after the song and the song itself, then the DVD is given two logical (not physical) play tracks, one plays the extra stuff and the other doesn't. A DVD ripping program would see them as two complete films, each taking the full filesize.

The reason why this may have been less feasible with the Star Wars release (with regard to old vs new) is that every scene has been changed or updated in some way, which means you couldn't just insert changes into the play order, basically every scene would have to be doubled up.

I wouldn't have liked a double-sided DVD, because quite frankly I like the printed label on DVDs.

Try looking at the .vob files, i'm pretty sure there wouldnt be that many copies of the films.

You do realize DVDs can hold up to 19 gigs? Yea thats my whole hard drive. Really expensive to go up to that much space tho.

dual layer DVDs can hold 8.9GB
single layer=4.7GB

so they only can hold that much if it's double sided which basically means it's 2 DVDs so :p