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I think the best explanation is what was described in that quote I took from the Editdroid Special Features thread:

From what I remember, the "The Ultimate Supplemental Collection" by RowMan was designed to look like the Editdroid releases. This was in the days before we knew of the existance of the Editdroid Four Disc Special Features Set.

So Rowman originally created his set to be 'unofficial' bonus discs to the Editdroid OT movie DVDs. However, at that time, no one knew the Editdroid team had also produced their own 'official Editdroid' Special Features Set.

Both sets are worth having as they feature different content, although both share the 'Making of' docs taken from different sources. And you're in luck as the four 'official' Editdroid Special Features discs are currently being posted to alt.binaries.starwars.

Hope that helps.

The 'Makings ofs' on the Rowman discs are subtitle free. I can't find anything to back it up but I thought they were taken from the vhs releases. It's also worth noting that the two documentaries on the Jedi disc are at half resolution (352x480) to fit them both on a single DVD.

The other thing about them - at least the Jedi ones - are that they seem to be from a different transfer of the documentaries. I once tried using these version to cover the subtitles on the Japanese transfers, and aside from colour and contrast differences, the framing was different between the two versions, and it required a lot of warping to get the two versions to match up, which ultimately made the exercise impractical.

Sorry to disappoint you guys, but those screen shots are of the Rowman bonus disc set. If you're lucky, some copies may have an .nfo file included helping to identify the discs.

There's is also a 4th Rowman disc 'Definitive Laserdiscs Extras - The RowMan Transfer' with all the extras from the Definitive Collection Laserdisc set.

Russ's galactictradefederation.co.uk site is invaluable for info & screengrabs of this sort of thing:

More info & screen grabs of the Rowman set here including that 4th laserdisc extras disc.

Info and screengrabs of the Editdroid set here

There's also a bit of background to both sets in this thread:

From what I remember, the "The Ultimate Supplemental Collection" by RowMan was designed to look like the Editdroid releases. This was in the days before we knew of the existance of the Editdroid Four Disc Special Features Set.

Thanks for answering the colour query. Good to know. Cheers Arnie.

Nice looking screenshots Arnie. I have to ask if you've done something the colour though, as it looks very muted compared to other versions of the Special Collection. Your caps look closer to the GOUT colourwise.

Other than that, great to see more examples of the Japanese set, keep up the good work!

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Channel 4 - Sunday September 14 2008

21:00	Bring Back...Star Wars
	Justin Lee Collins is on a quest to track down and reunite the cast of one of the most celebrated film franchises in history: Star Wars.