Hi Harmy!

Finally finished downloading all the files today (took me a week and a half with our less than ideal ISP). It was well worth the wait - you've performed miracles in despecializing Empire, and I feel like for the first time in a VERY long while I'm able to watch an old friend again 99.9% how I remembered it. Prior to your work I relied on the GOUT upscaled, but now I'll be able to kiss that one goodbye.

THIS is THE Star Wars release of the year for me - September 12th has come early ;)

There were literally only a few instances where I can tell footage has been mixed, and even then it's purely because I've watched this film more times then I care to mention! I loved what you did with the Falcon cockpit in zooming the shot out again - flawless! It bought tears to my eyes to see the truly awful "alert my Star Destroyer" section excised and the original and perfectly paced & scored sequence restored to its former glory - great stuff!!! Lovely to see the lightsabers restored to their former glory too particularly in the dagobah cave sequence. Ditto the Hoth Wampa sequence which is now back to its original and scarier best!

My only slight criticism (hey there had to be one!) is that the colours - at least on my monitor - looked a bit too red in places. However using VLC and turning the saturation down by only a slight amount restored things to near-perfection.

Thank you so much for bringing back this film in such high quality Harmy - the work you've put into this is of a very high standard and one can tell it must have been hard work. It's very much appreciated by this fan and it'll be the version I watch either on my own or with others!

Needless to say I am eagerly following/looking forward to your Star Wars Despecialized edition.

- N