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Post #253509

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seventiesfilmnut
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Star Wars Trilogy - Original Theatrical Versions: 2006 DVD Flaw List
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26-Oct-2006, 11:32 AM
Hi everyone.

Something I noticed early on while watching the NTSC GOUT on an Infocus projector (74" screen in this case) is an ugly smear and/or ghosting to the right of the Tantive IV's engine glows which I haven't heard anyone mention yet. I'd read that this little segment was of higher quality then the rest of the laserdisc master, but that smear is pretty ugly and looks like a 3rd of 4th gen video copy!

Anyone else notice this? Other than that it didn't hold up toooo badly on the projector, though the film wobble was VERY noticeable especially on the death star walls.

For the time being though I still consider my treasured 1989 laserdisc (even - alas - with the shrinking ratio error) as my definitive version of Star Wars, both for sound and overall closeness to the version I remember seeing in the theatre back in 1980. Just wish I could get access to a Pioneer X0 and get a definitive recording of this LD...

- John