Aleksbmw said:
skyjedi2005 said:
I have always hated the smashing glass sounds so i hardly ever watch the factory pressed gout, that and the very stupid motion blur and DVNR.
Hopefully the Japan special collection (mastered in the 80's) will look good on my gear; No DvNR and blur. The colorbalance is not too good but i have the perfect thing for that, an Elite Video Bvp-4+ that processes the signals in the analog domain without A/D and D/A.
One thing to be aware of is Star Wars was pressed in 1986 so it has the 1985 digital remix not the 1977 stereo mix.
The CAV full frame that came out in america in the previous year 1985 does have that theatrical mix, if only in low quality analog. No professional digital transfer/remaster was ever done. Though Belbecus did a transfer of it many moons ago on these forums. And i have it on disc somewhere with the reference quality version and the patched version that can be synced to the gout.
The 1985 CAV had beautiful picture quality too bad it was only in pan and scan. I think it was mastered from a newly made IP at the time, that was incidentally made in 1985 also. Too bad that pressing is notorious for Laser rot, if less so than the initial CLV pressing in 1982 which also had the theatrical stereo mix but they sped up the film and audio a bit to fit it.
Not that is makes any sense but i found the 1982 rental tape vhs actually sounded better in places than the 1985 CAV laserdisc, and both feature the same audio.
Sorry if i am rambling on again and for derailing the thread when i initially just had a question for the esteemed star wars audio expert extraordinaire, hairy hen,lol.