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Star Wars Silver Screen Edition v1.6
General Information
Type…: Movie
Platform…: Bluray (BD50)
Image Format…: .iso
Burn Tested…: Yes
Audio Track 1…: English Stereo
Audio Format…: Lossless
Hz…: 48,000
Channels…: Stereo
Source…: DTS-MA HD English Stereo Track from Harmy’s DeSpecialized Edition (Hairy Hen?)
Audio Track 2…: Spanish Stereo
Audio Format…: Lossless
Hz…: 48,000
Channels…: Stereo
Source…: 35mm film Print, Optical Audio
Audio Track 3…: English Mono
Audio Format…: Lossless
Hz…: 48,000
Channels…: Mono
Source…: 16mm Swedish Film print, on loan from Jaxxon
Video Format…: H.264
Video Bitrate…: 40 Mb/s Max VBR
Resolution…: 1920 x 1080
FPS…: 23.976
Source…: 35mm LPP Film print
Genre…: Science Fiction
IMDb Rating…: 8.7
Disc Size…: 37.5 GB
Subtitles…: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian & Finnish
Post Information
Posted to…: a.b.starwars
Posted on…: 6/12/2016
Parts…: 356 x 100 MB Rar
Release Notes
Changes since v1.5
- Subtitles now correctly sync with video track
- Removed emoticon from THX TN1 bumper
- Letterboxing is now pure black
- Replaced 2 missing lasers in Tantive shootout
- Replaced English Stereo Laserdisc Audio with Hairy Hen’s English Stereo track
- Corrected blotches that appeared in a few scenes (e.g. “Mission, What Mission?”)
- Corrected warping in the corner of the Sandcrawler shot
- Additional Cleanup to a handful of shots (very minor)
- Darth Lucas Updated the '81 crawl to use Poita’s 35mm Starfield
Changes since v1.0
- All missing frames restored
- Restored the two missing laser bolts in Reel 6 Trench Run
- Restored Technician’s leg in first frame of Reel 6
- Fully GOUT Sync’d so if you don’t like our Audio, feel free to replace it
- Additional Cleanup (mostly white dust, but also the orange Tantive marks, the
blue splotch when Vader enters and one of the homemade Reel Change marks at the
end of Reel3). - Some shots (e.g. in Ben’s hut) replaced using alternate print sources
- Sharpening
- Blue Color tint reduced
- Full Re-encode from lossless master at a much higher bitrate using professional
grade encoding software - Blu-ray format featuring Seamless branching of the '77 & '81 Crawl,
Interactive Menus with beautifully rendered 3d motion backgrounds created for us
by Donny Versiga, Fully functional Popup Menus, correct Chapter Stops,
subtitles, etc. - English Stereo Audio from Japanese LD (PILF-1236)
- Original 35mm Spanish Audio from the LPP print used for ~85% of the film
- New capture of the Mono Mix captured directly from Jaxxon’s Swedish 16mm film
Reporting Problems
While every effort has been made to ensure it all works as advertized, it
is likely that there are still some bugs in the menus. With this in mind,
might I suggest that you test everything with a software player (such as
PowerDVD 16) BEFORE you burn it to a BD-R, or if you have a BD-RE, now is
a good time to use it.
If you find a menu problem (and if I am able to fix it) then I can do a
“partial Mux” of the disc which will only alter the files that need to be
changed. What this means is that as people find problems and I fix them, I can
post only the updated files (a relatively small download) and you can replace
them in your ISO file. (The ISO file can be opened in a program like WinRAR,
and you can just extract the contents, replace the menu files and then use a
program like imgburn to create a new iso and/or burn it).
Please report any issues you encounter with playback / menu functions in the
relevant thread on OriginalTrilogy.com.
We are aware that:
- There is still a fair amount of dirt, dust and scratches on the film.
- Most of the light smearing issues reported in v1.0 are still there.
- Colors are far from perfect (probably still too much red in some shots)
- The film is grainy, and the amount of grain varies from shot to shot. We
don’t care if you hate it, it’s part of the FILM. No effort was made to reduce
the amount of grain so what you see is how it is on the print.
This is likely to be the final release using this scan, so any other glitches
you find in the movie, you will have to fix yourself.
Some notes on the Blu-ray
- If you are in the middle of the film and decide to go to the main menu,
and from there you watch the bonus features, you will not be able to
automatically resume the film from where you left off. This behavior is
due to the fact that you are at that point 2 titles away from the film. You
were on the film, then you were on the menu. From there you can resume, but by
moving to the trailer, the only thing you can now resume is the menu. Make
sense? HOWEVER, if in the middle of the film you use the PopUp Menu and watch
the trailers from there, the film will resume automatically as soon as the
trailer ends. - If you want to get back to the '77/'81 decision page, move to the Options
button and click DOWN on your remote control. Note: this only works on the main
menu (not the popup menu), and then only on the first page. If you are on the
Bonus, or Options, or Scenes Menus, just click down until you are back at the
main menu, then simply move RIGHT to Options and then DOWN.