hmmmm, well, my whole point with the CE3K analogy was that the dvd is Spielberg's Director's Cut and does not have any added effects shots from after '77, but it has been a while since I've seen the original version and some people here have very good memories.

Was the original version ever available on vhs? I seem to recall seeing seperate versions, one of them the "special edition," on the vhs rack of a video store way back when. Of course one of them might have been the '97 vhs which is the same as the '01 dvd.