Unfortunately no updates at the moment, I have been really busy with my new job and I am currently working away from home.
The only vaguely relevant thing I have done recently relates to the recent showings of the trilogy on ITV here in the UK, now the last few times they have shown them it has been the 2004 versions (Pan & Scanned to 16:9) so I usually just ignore them however I flicked over when ANH was on and realised that Luke didn't have a Green lightsaber in the Falcon so it was actually the '97 version which surprised me but I thought little more of it (except I realised the pan&scanned version showed the same problems as the sources I'm using i.e. it was stretched), a day or two later it occoured to me that it might be really useful to record these versions to use as a reference for colours and subtitles so I recorded ESB, so I now have a slightly stretched P&S version of the '97 ESB, and then last weekend I set ROTJ to record (and proceeded to watch the theatrical version on DVD) however the really odd thing is ROTJ was the '04 version, so the recording is completely useless to me.
Obviously someone at ITV used the wrong version for ANH and ESB, but it's a shame I didn't get a recordings of all 3 to use as a colour reference, so I'll just have to hope they make the same mistake again.
seventiesfilmnut said:
Hi Max.
Not sure if you still need them, but a while back I transferred all the extras on the superb 1997 SE Laserdisc boxed set (NTSC version). Have all the docs. and trailers etc in nice quality - used a Panasonic stand-alone DVD -recorder directly linked up to a Pioneer CLD-2950 LD player using pro-fi gold leads.
If these are any good to you I'll send you copies of the discs.
- 7FN
These will certainly be useful although I haven't really started to think about extras yet.