The Mandalorian

[K]

19 minutes ago, Fusty Gusset said:

 

Is that real? Is the idea of releasing a TV programme on a weekly schedule so alien to the target audience for Disney+ that they feel a diagram is necessary?

[HarryBizzle]

2 minutes ago, K said:

 

Is that real? Is the idea of releasing a TV programme on a weekly schedule so alien to the target audience for Disney+ that they feel a diagram is necessary?

It’s not weekly though, is it? It’s some arbitrary system of generally weekly, two weeks where you get two a week and then wait 10 days for the finale. 

[bridger]

20 minutes ago, papalazarou said:

by the was as I mentioned in the main Disney plus thread - all the star wars movies are streaming in 4k 

 

Do you know if they're genuine 4K scans of the films or are they just upscales of the previous 1080p versions? Just because something says it's 4K doesn't mean it's genuinely 4K.

[Cool Ben]

2 minutes ago, HarryBizzle said:

It’s not weekly though, is it? It’s some arbitrary system of generally weekly, two weeks where you get two a week and then wait 10 days for the finale. 

It's very odd, are they trying to schedule around Thanksgiving or something. I know American TV shows often seem just to stop around that time, no idea why as they must be made already.

[papalazarou]

5 minutes ago, bridger said:

 

Do you know if they're genuine 4K scans of the films or are they just upscales of the previous 1080p versions? Just because something says it's 4K doesn't mean it's genuinely 4K.

not sure - haven't tried streaming them myself yet - but peeps seem to say they are new masters so possibly proper 4k scans - would make sense as rumour is that 4k blu rays are coming early next year

 

https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/12/20960910/star-wars-trilogy-4k-disney-plus-available

[JohnC]

10 minutes ago, K said:

 

Is that real? Is the idea of releasing a TV programme on a weekly schedule so alien to the target audience for Disney+ that they feel a diagram is necessary?

It's not an official graphic. I'd have thought the Hyper Heroes in the corner would tip people off, even if you don't know what Hyper Heroes is (which I didn't; a podcast apparently). Why would Disney be putting that on an official graphic?

[Dirty Harry Potter]

12 minutes ago, bridger said:

 

Do you know if they're genuine 4K scans of the films or are they just upscales of the previous 1080p versions? Just because something says it's 4K doesn't mean it's genuinely 4K.

 

George Lucas had the originals rescanned and regraded in 4K in the 00's. So I imagine Disney will have had those digital masters handed over with the everything else.

[Darwock]

The 4K version is only available to stream? I tend to look in the places sailors like to hang out. 1080p seems to be the max.

[papalazarou]

2 minutes ago, Darwock said:

The 4K version is only available to stream? I tend to look in the places sailors like to hang out. 1080p seems to be the max.

I wouldn’t be surprised if you saw them soon out there on the high seas 

[JohnC]

2 minutes ago, Darwock said:

The 4K version is only available to stream? I tend to look in the places sailors like to hang out. 1080p seems to be the max.

I see 4k on both torrents and usenet.

[papalazarou]

3 minutes ago, JohnC said:

I see 4k on both torrents and usenet.

are they new as of today?  there have been some upscaled ones floating about for a while as some fan created 4k remasters 

[JohnC]

1 minute ago, papalazarou said:

are they new as of today?  there have been some upscaled ones floating about for a while as some fan created 4k remasters 

Oh wait, do you mean the movies? I mean this show.

[papalazarou]

ah right misread Darwock - yeah 4k of the first ep is up and out there - thought we were talking about the movies lol 

[hub2]

Is it OK to ask for VPN recommendations? I have  US CC so will be able to register and subscribe pretty easily.

[papalazarou]

9 minutes ago, hub2 said:

Is it OK to ask for VPN recommendations? I have  US CC so will be able to register and subscribe pretty easily.

nordvpn  worked for me (was using it to access the Netherlands)  but heard it should be working on US as well now - check reddit there are a couple of forums on disneyplus vpn access 

[hub2]

Thanks!

[K]

36 minutes ago, JohnC said:

It's not an official graphic. I'd have thought the Hyper Heroes in the corner would tip people off, even if you don't know what Hyper Heroes is (which I didn't; a podcast apparently). Why would Disney be putting that on an official graphic?

 

Dunno. I assumed it was some kind of Disney sub-brand that they were putting some of their TV under, but in retrospect they wouldn't need any other brand than Star Wars for this.

[bridger]

Really really good that. Enjoyed it a lot. Felt a touch TV like to begin with but soon got over that. Can’t wait for the next episode. 

[Darren]

31 minutes ago, Dirty Harry Potter said:

 

George Lucas had the originals rescanned and regraded in 4K in the 00's. So I imagine Disney will have had those digital masters handed over with the everything else.

 

Ah but which "originals"? The original originals, or the new originals?

 

Spoiler

 

Nobody wants to see Greedo shooting first in 4K.

[amc]

Had Nordvpn for a few years now, been great if a little pricey, although they do seem to have decent offers etc pretty regularly.

[HarryBizzle]

14 minutes ago, hub2 said:

Thanks!

NordVPN got hacked months ago and decided not to tell anyone about it until rumours started spreading a few weeks ago. 
 

https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/21/nordvpn-confirms-it-was-hacked/

 

I’ve got like 50GB a month of Windscribe free. They’re pretty good. 

[Paulando]

I wonder how Attack of the Clones looks in 4K. Wasn’t it filmed digitally in 1080p? 

[amc]

I enjoyed that. So we only have a couple of days to wait and not a week for ep2. I'll be getting the beers in and ordering a Domino's on Friday if it's out early enough. 

 

Weekly Star Wars. Happy days.

[Fusty Gusset]

I’ve watched it again 

 

Great atmosphere. Closer in tone, colour and texture to Rogue One than anything else I reckon.
 

Even a whiff of ROTJ on occasion - hmm maybe that’s wishful thinking after seeing some of those respectful and occasionally underplayed nods (subtitle font/colour appreciated).

[amc]

16 minutes ago, Paulando said:

I wonder how Attack of the Clones looks in 4K. Wasn’t it filmed digitally in 1080p? 

 

I'm not to up on the tech but I've seen videos of an AI (or something?) that up-scales old cgi cutscenes from PS1 games etc and it looked pretty damn good. Like I say I'm unsure of the actual tech they're using but it seemed to do a good job of up-scaling those old ropy 240p cutscenes, this was software the public has access to so can imagine Disney have orders of magnitude better software.

[papalazarou]

One thing I liked and this isn’t a spoiler as we know this is set after the original trill was how dirty and grimey looking the remaking stormtroopers we’re looking no more prestige looking white armour just a ragged bunch of troopers still hanging on 

[SpagMasterSwift]

Much like the fan base...

[Raoull duke]

Haven't paid any attention to this at all beyond the fact of knowing Bill Burr is gonna be in it, come to find out Werner Herzog is also in it, and Taika Waititi, and Gina Carano and Pedro Pascal (I hope he's a bisexual dick slinging badass basically space Oberyn). 

 

That's a whole big lot of good shit right there. 

[Matt Defis]

Well that was amazing and it looks so good and those end Credits were wonderful, might watch it again.

 

Dave Filoni didn't disappoint on his live action directorial debut

[JohnC]

There seemed to be Weighted Companion Cubes in that last location.