too bad the pre 1995 jedi is misframed.
oh well, i still have pretty perfect copies of star wars and empire strikes back.
perfect in terms of being letterboxed and only good on 4:3 20th century tv sets, lol.
plus on laserdisc you have every flavor of sound mixes for the films but the 70mm and
mono mixes. for star wars on laserdisc you get the 35mm stereo dolby surround mix analog only, the 1985 digital remix, the 1993 THX restoration, the 1997 restoration.
the 2004 cut being the only one never released on laserdisc.
heck even the phantom menace got a japan only laserdisc release. it had a phenomonal dolby digital 5.1 ex soundtrack if you had the expensive equipment to reproduce it. you needed an rf out and a ac3 demodulator which i don't have.
the theatrical dts mixes for the special edition from 1997 were never released.
i have read that some of those presentations were in 70mm 6 channel dts sound.
Jay mentioned the akira on criterion. which features the original streamline dub in glorious PCM. noticeably absent from the pioneer dvd release. The colors on the laserdisc transfer are also faded a bit but closer to the original theatrical release, digital recoloring be damned.
the real gem and beauty of my collection is the studio ghibli gai ippai boxset.
it may be on laserdisc but it still features Hi Vision remasters, nausicaa of the valley of the wind has the best laserdisc transfer i have ever seen, limited by the fact that it is letterboxed and interlaced.
I aLso have the japan star wars definitive collection which is rot free unlike its american counterpart. which oddly has a darker transfer.
I have the japan special collection trilogy as well but never watch them since they have burned in japanese subtitles and the picture is shifted to the top of the screen.
the picture on them are very faded and look like from very old film print. still i am told they are closer to the original release in color definition.