Originally posted by: MoveAlong
You're going to have to deal with the different aspect ratio's of the two sets. I believe one of them is squashed down to 2.25:1, can't remember which one. In other words, one set has thicker black bars than the other. Some cropping and resizing will be necessary. Good luck...

Actually they are both squished (or at least appear so) because they are based off the same master (all the same dirt and scratches can be seen on them) the TB is 8 pixels higher than the GKAR but otherwise the aspect ratio, framing etc. is the same (except for the title crawl)

I think the aspect ratio can be easily fixed just by adding a bit of overscan to the sides, since the image size is 704x576 just adding 8 pixels to each side bringing it up to 720x 576 does a lot to sort it out, I need to compare it with the official dvd to see if it's close enough.

Obviously all this only applies to ESB, I'll have to wait and see with the others.

I'm glad there are other's who want these preserved, they were the first versions I had on video and it's how I remember first seeing Star Wars (but not Empire and Jedi, I had them on video taped off TV, and always enjoyed them despite having no knowledge of what happend in the first film!)