msycamore said:
I think captainsolo means the '97 SE not the '04, I'm not entirely sure but I would be surprised if they didn't have the same colors, they should be from the same problematic telecine.
I'm not sure about that, the broadcast versions are anamorphic and the quality seems to be too good to be from the same transfer the 1997 laserdiscs and VHS used but I don't know.
Also I dug out a back up of my old STAR WARS VHS, which is definitely a pre-1993 transfer. There are a few funny things about it:
1) The first the first scene is squished to fit the roll.
2) The saturation is not low at all, on the conrary the image is totaly oversaturated.
3) It is a dubbed version and in the Greedo scene the English subs are kept and Greedo is dubbed so he doesn't speak an alien language at all.
4) The dubbing is pretty funny. When Luke ask 3PO to tell him about the rebelion, 3PO says something like: "I'm not very good at telling stories, I don't know how to put them, I'm not Spielberg."
Here are pictures of it:
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