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Post #207029

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CorellianSmuggler
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The Official 2006 Discs Will Be No Better Than What We Have!
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Date created
6-May-2006, 12:23 PM
Actually Neil... I find that the 1985 mix is so very faithful to the original... and so much better than the original... in audio clairty... that I would be upset if they did use a 2.0 before the 1985 digital remaster by Ben Burtt. So that is the only exception to what you're saying that I believe.

I truly want the six track... that's how I saw the film for the first time at the Loew's Astor Plaze in New York when the film was in it's initial run before wide release.. and it was in 70mm.

So I want the 1.0 mono, the 2.0 1985 mix, and the six track converted to 5.1. Then I will be happy... (So long as they don't overcompress the audio as well.) ... well...be happy with the sound. (If there's room, I wouldn't mind the 1993 THX remixed audio as well, but the others above are essential.) I expect we're going to get the THX remixed for laserdisc audio which was last used... instead of something that was used 'the first time; we saw the film in the theater.

The mono mix was so very different from the Dolby 2.0.... and the Six Track was amazing... and has never been released... I hope someday we will get this released, but if not on this release, it's likely lost forever... That's really too bad because it's a piece of history and hard work of George and Ben Burtt.... At the barest minimum of what we could expect, I'd wish that if they are only planning to include the 1993 THX Remix, that they go back to the six track and once and for all give us a 5.1 mix of it. Just like seeing the film letterboxed after so many years of Pan-and-Scan, the six-track mix has been missing from my viewing experience since 1985... the last time I saw it in six track....

So please... if anyone's listening... get the six track from 1977, and mix it into 5.1 for the release... PLEASE!