Dunedain said:

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! :)

The idea to sync the german audio to the NTSC version is something I wanted to do myself if I decide to make a german theatrical version with the original german crawl and end credits.

But the first thing I want to do are straight preservations of the german 1993 pre-THX and the 1995 THX Laserdisc.

I have done some Laserdisc capturing tests last weekend and I am pretty satisfied with the results. My Laserdisc player may not be the best, but its picture quality is pretty fine and it is enough to make good preservations of the german laserdics.

I have thought about getting a Pioneer CLD-D925 and a better capture card but this is too expensive for me right now.

BTW.:

I now have the german GOUT DVDs and could upload the PAL audio tracks (german 2.0, english 2.0 and spanish 2.0 ) or the complete DVD-Isos to a.b.starwars.

Anyone interested?