Thanks for explaining the code on the tapes.
TServo2049 said:
I think the 1982 video releases must have come from the IP of the 1981 reissue that introduced the Episode IV crawl. Like most (all?) of the pre-THX pan and scan releases, it had the 1981 Fox logo instead of the classic one, but the '82 VHS I checked out from the public library about 5 years ago also replaced the 50s fanfare with that John Williams re-recording done for ESB. Was that on theatrical prints of the '81 reissue too? (All of the non-THX P&S versions I'd seen had the logo replaced, but not the fanfare.)
Interesting, never heard of this replacement of Newman's fanfare with Williams '80 re-recording, I'm pretty sure the '82 LD have the original in place though. And I had no idea that the '81 re-issue used a different logo, are you sure about this? as far as I know the 1953 logo with the tilted 0 was still in use in '81, are you talking about the one which was on Return of the Jedi?
I doubt Williams re-recording was in place for the theatrical '81 re-issue but everything is possible I guess, isn't Alfred Newman's fanfare still left after all these years, I know it was for the SE, how is the blu-ray?