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Post #176807

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Moth3r
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Help Wanted: 1980s ITV Broadcast of Star Wars onto DVD?
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Date created
3-Feb-2006, 3:47 AM
I hadn't noticed the macrobinocular difference before, but I wasn't really paying close attention to the video.

I did notice that several scenes last for 2-4 frames longer than the French laserdisc video (the audio needed quite a few minor cuts to remain in sync).

BTW, the sample you posted has the fields in the wrong order - I don't know if this is your DVD recorder or something you did to the file afterwards. But it's an easy problem to fix if JD wants to re-encode to put it on a single DVD.

Now, here's a snippet of information for you. I used to have recordings off ITV for all three films - sadly, Empire and Jedi have been either lost or taped over. Anyway, in Jedi, rather than re-subtitle Jabba to fit the 4:3 frame, they pan and scanned the frame slowly from left to right, so that the 2.35:1 picture containing the original subtitles gradually "scrolled" sideways! It was a truly awful, lazy decision, which is why I remember it so well.