Originally posted by: russs15
The fly in the ointment is the 1987/88/89 UK VHS Fullscreen tapes that you would expect to have the 1985 digitally remastered mix with the tractor beam line from the mono mix added. That line is missing so I am unsure what the mix on these releases is. I am only familiar with US releases, but it sounds to me like they just continued to release the original transfer instead of the updated one. Are these releases the same as the ones that preceded them?
The fly in the ointment is the 1987/88/89 UK VHS Fullscreen tapes that you would expect to have the 1985 digitally remastered mix with the tractor beam line from the mono mix added. That line is missing so I am unsure what the mix on these releases is. I am only familiar with US releases, but it sounds to me like they just continued to release the original transfer instead of the updated one. Are these releases the same as the ones that preceded them?
I too suspect that the old version was simply re-released despite the "new" version with the Digital Sound. I have yet to get my hands on any tape older than 1987 so I cannot comment.
One hope is a project in the pipeline of the 1982 UK PAL Star Wars LaserDisc which I cannot wait to split-screen test alongside the later versions.