VIDEO: Merry Christmas! Happy Life Day! Here's the Star Wars Holiday Special at 5K, 60 FPS

[blewis17]

The Christmas gift that nobody asked for. Christian Simpson (aka PeriFractic), SW actor, voice artist, and owner of a hero Darth Maul TPM saber, recently upscaled The Holiday Special for our dubious enjoyment. Still can't polish a turd, but it's probably one of the best looking versions of the special.

So enjoy! (or not, YMMV)

ADDENDUM

As you may note, the lengthy conversion is STILL not complete. Below is the link to the Nelvana studios/ Boba Fett cartoon that was not included in the upscaled conversion above.

 

[Apollo]

 

[Jedisushi]

Amazing

 

[JediMichael]

The fake Mark Hamill in glorious 4k so those creepy eyes pop out even more.

 

[NeoRutty]

Wow.

Still prob won’t watch… but wow

I’ve seen the doc, “a disturbance in the force” and I watch the Redlettermedia discussion every year (both parts)…

But I can’t.

Maybe

 

[Captain Dunsel]

The Christmas gift that nobody asked for. Christian Simpson (aka PeriFractic), SW actor, voice artist, and owner of a hero Darth Maul TPM saber, recently upscaled The Holiday Special for our dubious enjoyment. Still can't polish a turd, but it's probably one of the best looking versions of the special.

So enjoy! (or not, YMMV)

My eyes!! My eyes!!!!

 

[blewis17]

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My eyes!! My eyes!!!!

 

[dascoyne]

 

[CB2001]

Still better than the Sequel Trilogy.

 

[ZeroSum]

THANKS. YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE.
No, seriously. You shouldn't have.

 

[publiusr]

I was looking forward to a sequel:

Darth Maude Strikes Back

 

[PoopaPapaPalps]

I'm glad that it's upscaled for "posterity sake," but to omit segments, is it even the Holiday Special if it's not complete? They cut out the cartoon and Jefferson Starship; the second best musical interlude of the whole thing!

 

[blewis17]

I'm glad that it's upscaled for "posterity sake," but to omit segments, is it even the Holiday Special if it's not complete? They cut out the cartoon and Jefferson Starship; the second best musical interlude of the whole thing!

I'm wondering if Christian didn't have decent quality on some of those clips to "upscale"

And the Boba Fett cartoon was released as a special feature on the Blu-ray set.

 

[publiusr]

Real pilots drink Pabst!

 

[pengbuzz]

The fake Mark Hamill in glorious 4k so those creepy eyes pop out even more.

Yeah, they look really weird in that pic. One eye looks particularly strange...

 

[blewis17]

Yeah, they look really weird in that pic. One eye looks particularly strange...

...and I'm pretty sure he's wearing a wig

 

[JediMichael]

 

[Treadwell]

I am opposed to increasing the scale and framerate of media beyond what it was originally created at.

With film, a new scan brings out information that's always been there that was captured at the time. With video, the original resolution is all there is. Upscaling just adds "made up" data, invented by the software. It's smoke and mirrors. Let 480i be what it is.