russs15 wrote:

I have had a quick look at ebay.de and the VHS sets look to be very reasonable to buy. For audio comparison, you could look at some of those and get the audio only onto your PC to work with. Just a thought.
Yeah, thought about that, too. I got the very first Star Wars [Krieg der Sterne] on Original VHS-Tape, when I was a kid. It is the Full Screen, Silverscreen Edition from ~1990, and has Dolby Stereo Surround. To your all surprise, there is no Episode 4 in the Title, and no "A new Hope" oder "Eine neue Hoffnung", just:

Krieg der Sterne {Star Wars}

Es herrscht Bürgerkrieg... {It is a period of civil war...}

So besides, its Full Screen and maybe Time-compressed (still have to figure out, what that really means), its seams to be the original cinema version in german. Even the very first tv-broadcast in 1990 was without "Episode 4" in the title. Yesterday I read in some german forum, that the subtitle "Episode IV - Eine neue Hoffnung" was not added until 1995 in german. Seems cool to me!

I Just wrote a mail to the private laserdisc collector I talked about. I am sure he has several of those laserdiscs, maybe even all of them.

Grinder wrote:
And don't you think you should include an English track too? It's nice to preserve the audio tracks you grew up with, but you prefer the original audio too right?

There will be at least an DD2.0 English Track onboard. Of course, I prefer the original audio but it seems that it was a long time ago, I watched the unaltered trilogy in german.

Thanks for the many responses.

Update as soon as the laserdisc collector replies.