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pittrek
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Info Wanted: The GOUT or Laserdisc? (what to buy?)
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5-Oct-2011, 6:08 AM

FrederikOlsen said:

... If you think it's also the best legit representation of the OOT available in terms of A/V quality...

No, it isn't.

The colours are completely wrong (desaturated and red-shifted) - check this for example : http://savestarwars.com/goutcorrect.html

The "binary sunset" is blue, instead of orange, the scene where R2 was captured was artificially darkened, etc.  - see this http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Star-Wars-Colortiming-Cinematography-was-What-changes-was-done-to-STAR-WARS-in-93/topic/9805/

The audio used for the GOUT release is NOT the theatrical audio, but a brand new sound mix (well with "new" I mean "created specially for the 1993 release").

The closing credits are different - http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Credits-Leaders-Thread-was-Star-Wars-Pre-Re-release-Credit-Change-June-77/topic/12960/

Also the digital noise reduction produced a lot of "ghosting", but otherwise yes, it's an OK representation of the original theatrical version :)

Anyway try to get DarkJedi's V3 project, it corrects most of GOUT's problems and has the original theatrical audio tracks - http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Star-Wars-Original-Trilogy-Theatrical-Editions-Info-ALL-versions-SEE-FIRST-POST-FOR-INFO-AND-AVAILABILITY/topic/10550/

The Technidisc version of "Episode 4" has very nice colours - http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/STAR-WARS-Special-Widescreen-Edition-Technidisc/topic/13263/ but it's pretty dark.

Also I still like the wonderful EditDroid set, especially for its bonus features