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Fang Zei
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If Lucas did a proper oot restoration for blu ray and dvd would he be forgiven for the special editions and the prequels?
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11-Jul-2009, 2:17 AM

They aren't the 35mm versions, but they are the versions that were shown digitally in auditoriums with DLP projectors. Granted, most people saw the 35mm versions when they went to see the movie in theaters. Only a hundred or so locations were showing AOTC in digital back in '02. The only place in the Commonwealth of Virginia showing it was actually the closest theater to where I live, but I didn't have a hankering to see Clones again until like a month after opening day - when I'd seen it in 35mm at the AMC Union Station in DC - and by that point the DLP screen had switched out AOTC for Scooby-Doo. So I never got to see it in digital. I'm 99% sure that the dvd version is 100% identical to the digital version though. The only thing I'm not sure about is that additional moment in the Lars homestead garage after Anakin's confession when Padme consoles him. I'm not sure if that wasn't added until the dvd. If someone can verify whether or not that was in the digital version, please say.

I saw ROTS on both film and digital. The wipe was definitely there in the film version, and obviously it's not there in the dvd. I'm not sure if it was there or not in the digital version but I think it was gone.

Apparently that wasn't the only difference. I remember reading people's claims that Vader's "NO!" scream and the subsequent wipe to the next scene was different, and that there was a difference in the background during Anakin and Obi-Wan's last verbal exchange on the lava flow. Not sure if any of those are true.

In any event, I'm pretty sure the Episode II and III dvd's are identical to the DLP versions.