Hello. I’m just wondering if you have to own the official Blu-Ray release of the original trilogy to get the Respecialized Edition '97, just like in the case of the Despecialized Edition. Thank you.
Yes, my friend, you do.
As Harmy states in his opening post…
‘Fanedits and preservations are an artform and to be shared among legal owners of the officially available releases only.
Do not support piracy.’
and
‘it uses the Despecialized Edition v2.5 master as its main video source and puts the changes made in 1997 back in, mostly using the Blu-Ray version’
and under ‘Video Sources’ listed…
‘1) STAR WARS Despecialized Edition v2.5
2) STAR WARS Episode IV A New Hope Official Blu-Ray 2011’