I'm very disappointed in the image quality of the DVD's. I kept noticing while watching on my TV, that here and there things seemed pixilated. Darth Vader's Lightsabre in IV comes to mind.

So I popped ANH into my computer, expanded my monitor resolution to maximum, and took some screen shots. Xtream Pixilation, ug. I'd really been hoping that I could take some high-quality shots and use them as desktop's, but with this kind of ugly, I dunno. Maybe if I take them when the image is small, and then use Fireworks to blow it up a bit...

Meh.

It was shot in 1977... it's not a brand new movie, Kas, they just remastered the twenty-something year old film.

Film doesn't have pixels, Isstal, it's analog, not digital.

You must be the only one . . .s'not on my copies.

Sucks to be you, Kas.

Definitely not filmed in digital like the new stuff. That stuff is unbelievable in clarity. I had the opportunity to see some sneak preview snippets from Ep II a month before it came out while I was at Star Wars Celebration II a few years ago. They had brought in one of those digital projection systems and had gone on and on about the clarity and quality of image... and I couldn't see how it could be much better than film. When I actually saw it I was blown away, both by the clarity and by the fact that I saw Yoda deflecting force lighting before almost everybody else. Mwahaha.

That's the point though, traditional film doesn't do that. When Star Wars was filmed, it was filmed with film (obviously). With film, you don't have pixels like you do with digital content.

Someone, when they converted the analog film to digital dvd, lowered the resolution.


I'm going to try some different DVD software and see if that helps any.

Kas... no shit? Converting analog footage to digital shouldn't mean a great reduction in quality, but the film they're converting from is 30 years old. That means some bumps in the transfer stage, which means some messy stuff. Evidently, they didn't do a good enough job cleaning it up.

Probably because Lucas was to busy Photoshopping Hayden into RotJ to worry about the image.

Did you even look at the screen shots I posted? This isn't just here and there in the flim, its the entire movie!

Take it back to the shop from whence you purchased it.

Seems defective.