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Harmy
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RETURN OF THE JEDI 1983 THEATRICAL VERSION RECONSTRUCTION DVD by Harmy (MKV, NTSC DVD5 AND PAL DVD9 AVAILABLE)
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13-Sep-2010, 9:19 AM

OK, a question, guys: How was the Classic Edition (and the other similar restorations)? I'm just asking whether this hasn't already been done, because honestly, for my personal watching I'll probably be sticking to the PDE until a true full HD version of OOT comes out, so if you guys can already get this in DVD quality elsewhere, there's no point doing it. There's no way I'm doing this in HD, which would make it worthwhile compared to other edits, but there's just too much GOUT and the KGAR is actually pretty bad too.

In other words, having seen the PDE (I'm keeping most of the changes the way they are there) and the samples I posted, do you feel confident this could be better than the edits released so far?

Concerning the ending celebration, I'd be using only GOUT there, as the SE celebration was heavily recut and while it was possible to get close to the original in the PDE using the SE footage it is not possible to do an exact reconstruction because while most of the original shots are there, many of them are missing several frames. But I think that the clebration in Jedi is a prime example of where the GOUT actually looks pretty good; (I guess it depends on the reel they scanned from but I don't know) It has quite a lot of grain but it's also got a lot of fine detail and has a very film like look to it IMO.