Moth3r said:
I heard that there was a fixed GOUT disc available with corrected audio?
The German audio track was faulty on some discs. In chapter 13 of ANH when Luke, Han & Chewie wait for the elevator to the detention area, the announcements in the background are missing - as well as the lines "Ich kann in diesem Helm überhaupt nichts sehen (I can't see a thing in this helmet)", "Das wird nicht funktionieren (This is not gonna work)", "Warum hast du das nicht gleich gesagt? (Why didn't you say so before?)" and "Ich habe es gesagt (I did say so before)". A replacement disc with fixed German audio is available from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainmemt by emailing info@tcfhe.de.
R2D2 said:
If you reverse the PAL audio speed up you will get a slower (deeper) voice of everybody, which doesn't feature the original voice frequencies.
Surely the original dub was for the film's theatrical presentation, and so would be at film speed? The voices would therefore be sped up (higher pitched) for the PAL DVD; slowing down should restore the original pitch.
Yes, I was about to say that, I'm almost certain you're correct. The original Star Wars trilogy German soundtracks in theaters would not have had any PAL speed-up to the audio.
The only reason that this is added to home video versions is so the audio will match the video frame rate of European tv's that use the PAL format.
So taking the German DD 2.0 soundtracks from the German version of the GOUT, then removing the PAL audio speed-up, and synching them to the U.S. GOUT videos (or taking the German PAL GOUT video and re-sampling the video down to NTSC resolution and frame rate, if you want to keep the German subtitles for alien characters and such) would actually restore the voices to their correct sound as heard in theaters by German Star Wars fans. :)
Synching the German GOUT DD 2.0 soundtracks, with the PAL speed-up removed, to dark_jedi's V3 Star Wars trilogy DVD set video, or his new Blu-Ray HD trilogy set video, would match the German soundtracks with the highest quality original unaltered Star Wars trilogy video possible. That would be so cool! :)