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Beware Hollywood’s digital demolition: it’s as if your favourite films and TV shows never existed (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Last June, fans of Comedy Central – the long-running channel behind beloved programmes such as The Daily Show and South Park – received an unwelcome surprise. Paramount Global, Comedy Central’s parent company, unceremoniously purged the vast repository of video content on the channel’s website, which dated back to the late 1990s.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The only way to watch the original Star Wars movies before George completely fucked with them is piracy.

The 4K77, 80 and 83 editions are what you're after. Enjoy. There are apparently reduced noise versions as well, but I thought it was perfect as is. It's old. It's supposed to have noise and grain. The desert scenes in the first one are really noisy and I'm not 100% sure why. Maybe he filmed those on cheaper film stock in smaller cameras, but that's just a guess.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The director was an amateur, and he didn't align the grains of sand with the grain of the film.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

It’s not his fault that sand is coarse, rough, and irritating, or that it gets everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They were course and rough and irritating and got everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The late 90s dvd versions are gold.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I do have a double set with original (or as much as you could get) along with the post-prequels completely broken one. I think there was a pre-prequels version as well. But then that is DVD quality, which is getting on a bit.

The likes of Disney+ doesn't even acknowledge the originals even exist.

Same with their Alien and Aliens versions as well. No director's cuts at all, which is a shame as I far prefer them. They should have both.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

There was a storm in the desert where they were filming which destroyed a lot of the equipment and almost doomed the film.
I think I remember reading that they had to use cheaper film stock in those scenes for that reason.