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Post #458551

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Moth3r
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The Empire Strikes Back "1980 Theatrical version" Reconstruction - Adywan (Released)
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Date created
20-Dec-2010, 11:16 AM

In response to the last few posts, there are/were several ways to obtain a copy of this disc:

Usenet - it was originally posted to alt.binaries.starwars, but over 200 days ago so you will need to have a provider with good retention. Try searching for ESB THEATRICAL on binsearch. There was also an optional audio fix & instructions posted.

Rapidshare - links were available on tehparadox, which was unavailable for a time but I think is now back up. Most recommend you use a piece of software called jdownloader in conjunction with the links. I think the audio fix was already applied to the one uploaded here.

Torrent - there was a torrent at demonoid, but, a) some files had been altered and did not exactly match what Ady posted, and b) it's probably no longer seeded. Not recommended.

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I finally managed to check this out a few weeks ago. It really is excellent work. Bearing in mind I have never seen the SE, I didn't notice any distracting changes and it felt like I was finally watching a good quality transfer of the 1980 film.

Almost perfect, but if anyone wanted to take a shot at their own theatrical reconstruction there are some improvements that could be made. There were occasional choices in colouring that made faces and skin look waxy and artifical, and some crushed black levels look photographically anomalous. I suppose this was a limitation in the source.

The Hoth scenes were originally very grainy, so I'm not used to seeing them so clean. And some of the cloud city backgrounds had very slight aliasing.

And if I wanted to be really picky about 1980's authenticity, I could mention the URL for thx.com that appears at the end of the credits...