What is the quality of the PAL videos you can purchase off of amazon uk's marketplace or ebay?
I know the US only got a couple of tapes in the 80's
I mean official tapes have to be better than the bootleg taped off the sci fi channel broadcasts in very low quality almost unwatchable.
If you are really lucky someone out there hopefully taped the first broadcasts in Betamax SP mode on a quality tape, as the vhs recordings done in the late 90's really suck.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Droids-Great-Heep-Anthony-Daniels/dp/B00008T6DH/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=video&qid=1250693007&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Droids-1-VHS-Anthony-Daniels/dp/B00008T6DD/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=video&qid=1250693007&sr=1-3
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Droids-Vol-VHS-Anthony-Daniels/dp/B00008T6DF/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=video&qid=1250693007&sr=1-2
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Droids-3-VHS-Anthony-Daniels/dp/B00008T6DG/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=video&qid=1250693007&sr=1-4
They all seem to say copyright 1985. I had hoped maybe they had remastered re-issues in the 90's like the making of material for the star wars trilogy, looks like i remembered wrongly.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars_TV_home_video_releases
This wiki covers at least the english releases in pal and ntsc, nothing on foreign beyond the uk i'm afraid.