Some general info for the Original Trilogy on CED (Capacitance Electronic Disc)…
This is a brilliant post oojason! Thanks for compiling everything into one place. 😃
To add, here’s a discussion of the Star Wars (ANH) CED releases from the excellent CED Magic site, which in turn links to a nice document from 1995 on the deleted scenes:
http://www.cedmagic.com/featured/star-wars.html
A promo shot of the Star Wars CED collection:
http://www.cedmagic.com/mem/rca-laboratories/mem468.html
Here’s a technical discussion of the time compression that features a couple of OT alum:
http://www.cedmagic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2390&sid=9e45cd4ea4bdfa5ff59545afe0ac4408