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Squirrel
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POLL: Which version of the OT do you own?
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11-Feb-2007, 8:26 AM
Ok, here goes... firstly home-made recordings...

Star Wars recorded from its first TV showing in 1983! Most of title crawl missing (spent ages trying to find a blank VHS cassette and missed the intro), recording starts just as the last lines of opening crawl recede into the distance. Opening battle complete though. Threepio's line about the tractor beam is in place, as is the "close the blast door" line. Didn't notice this was missing until I finally bought a VHS set with the stereo mix many years later. Also hadn't quite got the hang of hitting pause during the ad breaks, so there's a Green Cross Code advert (starring David Prowse as the Green Cross Code man) on there as well. Ought to copy that to DVD I suppose.

Empire Strikes Back - never recorded this off the TV, hadn't seen this one all the way through until I bought the box set.

Return Of The Jedi - recorded from TV in about 1990.

And now official releases:

1995 VHS THX remastered set in pan & scan (didn't have a widescreen TV, hadn't discovered the joys of widescreen yet), limited edition box set with Darth Vader on the outside.

1997 VHS SE box set in widescreen. Saw all these at the cinema, I missed it first time round as I was minus 6 months old when SW came out in the cinema (I was born in 1977).

1999 The Phantom Menace DVD

2002 Attack Of The Clones DVD

2004 SE original trilogy box set - watched once, thought it was rubbish. Bonus disc is funny though, David Prowse's undubbed dialogue in broad Bristolian! (I live about 15 miles north of Bristol...)

2005 Revenge Of The Sith DVD

2006 DVDs, bought all 3, of the SEs only ANH has ever been in my DVD player and that was simply to compare the Death Star battle against the original. Have re-encoded all 3 theatrical movies to anamorphic and watch those instead.