Now I don't have any high def equipment, but this is a pretty cool idea, and it sounds like with the added tweaks it would be worth checking out even if you already tivoed the HD broadcasts (or downloaded wookieegroomer's HD-DVD/Xbox 360 versions) already, to hold us all till the inevitable (but probably changed again) BD saga from the Ranch in the next 1-3 years.adywan wrote: THE STAR WARS SAGA - 1080P AVCHD for PS3 & Blu-Ray players (to fit on a DVD-9)
Well I have been tinkering with my new quad core and along the way I discovered how to convert the HDTV 1080p saga into a Blu-Ray format that is compatible with the PS3 and Blu-Ray players (that support AVCHD which most new players do) but each movie will fit on a DVD-9 with the same quality as the hv 1080p 8.5gb mkv releases, which only had 2.0 sound for some of them. Unfortunately they are the SE versions. Here's a list of each disc:
Disc 1:- THE PHANTOM MENACE
Details:- 1080p True 24fps
AC3 5.1 English Dolby Digital Audio
Ac3 2.0 Directors commentary (selectable with the audio button on your remote)
Chapters
No menus
Disc 2:- ATTACK OF THE CLONES
Details:- 1080p True 24fps
AC3 5.1 English Dolby Digital Audio
Ac3 2.0 Directors commentary (selectable with the audio button on your remote)
Chapters
No menus
Disc 3:- REVENGE OF THE SITH
Details:- 1080p True 24fps
AC3 5.1 English Dolby Digital Audio
Ac3 2.0 Directors commentary (selectable with the audio button on your remote)
Chapters
No menus
Disc 4:- A NEW HOPE - (basic colour correction)
Details:- 1080p True 24fps
AC3 5.1 English Dolby Digital Audio
Ac3 2.0 Directors commentary (selectable with the audio button on your remote)
aC3 2.0 Alternate commentary (selectable with the audio button on your remote)
Chapters
No menus
Greedo doesn't shoot
Disc 5: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (Colour corrected)
Details:- 1080p True 24fps
AC3 5.1 English Dolby Digital Audio
AC3 5.1 Laserdisc audio with Boba's original Voice (selectable with the audio button on your remote)
Original Pre-2004 Emperor
Ac3 2.0 Directors commentary (selectable with the audio button on your remote)
Chapters
No menus
Disc 6: THE RETURN OF THE JEDI (basic colour correction)
Details:- 1080p True 24fps
AC3 5.1 English Dolby Digital Audio
Ac3 2.0 Directors commentary (selectable with the audio button on your remote)
Chapters
No menus
No Hayden
I'm still messing about with all the bitrate & audio settings but the saga should be complete by the end of next week or the week after, at the latest.
Now I can't guarantee that this format will play on every Blu-Ray player so I have made a small sample, that you will need to burn to a DVD, that you can test to see if your player is compatible before getting the release. You will waste a DVD-5 for just a few minutes of movie but it will save you wasting a DVD-9 anyway. Instructions on how to burn are included but its just an iso but burn with Imgburn because it gives a better compatibility than Nero (Nero UDF files system 2.50, which blu-ray is, is messed up and caused the disc to be unreadable in most cases). You don't really need to download this if you have a PS3 but if you want to be on the safe side (its been tested without any problems on a UK PS3 using the latest firmware - 2.41)
http://rapidshare.de/files/40013708/blu ... t.rar.html
BLU-RAY AOTC SMALL SAMPLE TEST AVCHD -BURN ON DVD-5 -143mb approx rapidshare
Please report back if you test this with the model number and country of the player you have tested it on so I can compile a compatibility list and get a better idea if it will only work on a PS3 before I finish them all off
As you can see they are all 24fps and not 23.976. Most new TV's are 24fps bluray compatible and as most blu-ray discs use the correct 24fps encoding I decided to use that so you get the movie as it was in the cinemas.
The PT ones I may not be doing due to the fact that there are now versions available on AVCHD that are the same but without the commentaries.
Enjoy
Edit: Link to the forum discussion in question:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic. ... opic/9536/
