Originally posted by: Sluggo
Pacing aside, lets get back to the topic. The TPM original version was available on VHS and Laserdisc. I suppose it wouldn't be too hard to construct a hybrid version of the movie based on the DVD with the differences grafted in from a good laserdisc transfer. Sort of along the lines of OCP's Classic Editions. The laserdisc transfer I have isn't bad, but nowhere near comparable to the DVD. No need to use the laserdisc for the original version of TPM, man... the TB version is the original theatrical release, and it looks better than anything I've seen. Surely better than any laserdisc transfer out there.

A preservation project for Clones would be tougher as the DVD was the first release and it had all of the changes. I am sure someone out there somewhere has a better version than the camcorder version. Was it ever broadcast on TV? Which version would have this been?

That's what I'm thinking; there's GOT to be a better version of the theatrical AOTC than the crappy camcorder versions we've seen. But I fear that may be difficult since the changes were made while it was still in the theaters, showing up in the digitally projected version. That means that one became the definitive version extremely quickly. So I doubt there was a version of it shown on TV before that point, and anything after that most likely would have been the same as the digitally projected version.

Somebody prove me wrong on this... please!

--SKot