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Post #549923

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TServo2049
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OBITUARY - Star Wars Fullscreen/Pan and Scan versions. R.I.P.
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3-Nov-2011, 3:06 PM

Yeah, as I said before, I hate hate *HATE* P&S, but for these films, the P&S versions are still interesting to look at because of all the detail that is lost in the 4x3 letterbox versions, and the lack of any official high-res release. It's a crying shame that you have to give up almost half of the image to see the starfields at anything coming close to the original level of detail.

How many preservations are there of the fullscreen PAL versions? And not just of the original film, but of Empire and Jedi as well? The 1995 PAL VHS versions would be interesting, they're probably the highest-quality cropped transfers. (And here's a question - is the DVNR different on the P&S versions? Since this is before HD, I'm guessing they had to transfer it two times, because they couldn't derive the P&S version from a higher-resolution source.)