dark_jedi said:

.......and that list is getting bigger LOL.

 That is why I thought I would take this chance to re-introduce everyone to your work and get all the threads/projects listed in one place.

ChainsawAsh said:

If anyone has DarkJedi's ESB Standard Play and ROTJ "First Issues" discs, could you send me a PM and work out a trade or something?  Those are the LDs that have the original theatrical mixes of each of those films (at least, as far as I can tell) and they're not time-compressed like the ANH/ESB Extended Play discs are (the "First Issue" discs of those).

I realised as part of hacking together this mega-thread that the main web-site resource I used to help out with sourcing the Dark Jedi preservations - davisdvd.com -  shut down over 3 years ago. However, using the magic of Google and a site called web.archive.org I found it again and the links are below

http://web.archive.org/web/20060206031246/www.davisdvd.com/misc/ep4.htm

http://web.archive.org/web/20050924185548/www.davisdvd.com/misc/ep5.htm

http://web.archive.org/web/20050924185726/www.davisdvd.com/misc/ep6.htm

So, to answer ChainsawAsh, both the Ep4 and 5 Standard play laserdiscs were the first laserdisc releases that were not time compressed and also the last release which had the original theatrical soundtracks prior to the 1985 DigitalSound re-mastering.

From what I can make out, the Ep6 audio on the First Issue is the same as that used right up to the remastering for the Definitive Collection ie, the First Issue, the Special Widescreen Edition, the Japanese Special Collection and 1992 Pan and Scan

http://rapidshare.com/files/255794977/ESB_80.rar.html
that's the AC3 track from dark_jedi's CAV ESB preservation (1425-84) Standard Play.
Believed to be the same Dolby Surround mix heard in cinemas.

Dark, I have a question about this one.
(I know it was a long time ago, but this question doesn't require too much memory ;)
Is this set from your personal collection, or did you borrow the LD from somebody?
If yours, and if you still have it, will you please tell where were the discs were pressed?
I'm guessin' the cover probably says "Printed in USA" but what about the discs themselves?
Do disc labels say "Manufactured in USA" or "Manufactured in Japan" or something else?
Thanks

ChainsawAsh said:

And I still can't figure out if there was a 1985 remix of ROTJ, or if the 1983 theatrical mix was ever released on LD/VHS ...

 I think this one will remain a mystery. My best guess is that as ROTJ was made with Digital Sound and the first release on Laserdisc has Digital Sound so I think they may be the same. By the time that ROTJ came out ANH and ESB had already had the 85 Digital Sound treatment.

I would also guess that those theatres that were THX capable in 1983 had a different mix to the one that more basic theatres had but that basic mix is what the Laserdisc got.

PM sent........

Still interested at at least some stills from the SE widescreen preservation, if anyone who has a copy would be nice enough to supply some.

I woke up today and decided that it was "Update an old post and bump an old topic for an old pal day"

Consequently, I have updated Post 1 which is a subtle reminder about what DJ has done over the years. Much of what we now take for granted around here has had DJ somewhere in the middle doing a lot of hard work.

Should he ever come back here, I welcome him. He will also be a better man than me as I would not be back!!

If he does not come back then all those over many years who have done what they have done to trigger the events of the last few weeks have finally won.

Congratulations.

Well done.

Your work here is done.........

lol?