Originally posted by: Obi Jeewhyen

Originally posted by: Bootfit
...only thing i want to know if members of this site and sites like Home Theatre Forum and Original Trilogy purists will be finally happy, if you know what i mean???

Please tell me what is wrong with being a purist.

(And whether I'm wrong in getting the distinct impression you write the word with a sneer?)

No, I will not be happy about a Star Wars DVD release until it is as pure as the driven snow. That is, 100% 1977 in ALL aspects - - including the soundtrack. They have 3 to choose from, so it shouldn't be that difficult to include only sounds that appeared on one of those three tracks.

But until they stop lying with 'Original Theatrical Release' on a version that has sounds added in the 80's, I will not be happy.

The only REAL problems I had with the recent GOUT DVDs are:

1. Non-anamorphic, no new transfers.

2. No audio options for the different original mixes (70 mm, 35 mm, mono, 1985, 1993). So, the English tracks use the 1993 laserdisc mixes, but the freaking Spanish and French audio tracks use the original mono (Star Wars) and 70 mm (ESB) mixes?!?!? does that make sense for what was billed as "the original theatrical experience"?

3. No selectible opening crawl for post-1981 ANH.

And that's about it, really.

I think people have taken the GOUT release a bit too lightly. Remember, LFL had said for years and years (since 1995, really), that we'd never see the OUT again. EVER.

Yet, along comes this "Limited Edition" release.

We've gotten out feet in the door, people. It was a small step, but it proves that they've started to listen.

That's a major victory in this whole crazy thing.