Harmy said:

thecolorsblend said:

-- OT
GOUT. It's just the best option that I've got ready access to. Besides, I've got little or no use for fan edits and such nonsense.

-- PT
2001/2002/2005 DVD's. The choices are limited here.

The choices are only limited if you allow yourself to be limited by blindly condemning fan efforts. For example this:

The Phantom Menace -Theatrical Version - NTSC DVD- ADYWAN

It was created by a fan, yes, but it is a perfect theatrical presentation on DVD including the original DD 5.1 from Laserdics, which is said to be vastly superior to the DVD mix. Even the PQ is better, because it is sourced from HD broadcast and colour corrected to be closer to theatrical colours than the official DVD.

My Despecialized Editions (links in my sig) are similar to this, although some of the less obvious changes (only those that you probably wouldn't ever notice) are left in.

Oh, and ROTS is the theatrical cut on BD.

There's a distinction to be made between a "fan edit" which changes a bunch of stuff that maybe not everyone thinks needed to be changed and a "fan preservation" that mostly attempt to protect the theatrical cuts in the best quality possible. One of those is an agenda I can readily get behind. The other is something that Lucas gets criticized for up one side and down the other but, somehow, fan editors get a free pass on.

And hey, some fan edits can look amazing. Many of them are (intentionally or not) an indictment of how poorly executed a lot of official LFL releases are. The Darth Editous ANH comes to mind here. I just have problems with anybody tampering with a filmmaker's vision irrespective of their motive.

And yes, the cut of ROTS on DVD (I don't know about the BRD set because I refuse to buy it) is mostly the theatrical version... but dammit, a wipe was altered. It's a small thing but there it is.