TServo2049 said:

I've never had a bad burn on this drive that I can remember; is anybody else having a problem, or is it maybe something on my end?

I did get the usenet version and no such problem on my end, I also used ImgBurn.

Huge thank you Puggo for your great work on this and to rsortor and Jaxxon for providing their prints! A real delight to watch, the only negative about it I can think about is the blown out highlights, but I guess that was something that couldn't be recovered, I recall it was discussed early on in the project if some of that detail could be salvaged, and it's not that bad.

There's also a few sequences on Hoth and Dagobah were there's a monotone blue palette where it appears to lack a bigger range of colors, which is most likely a problem with the source as well. Otherwise I thought the colors were exceptional, loved seeing the warm hues inside Yoda's hut and the warm hues in the Cloud City hallway that was altered in the THX/GOUT transfer.

As already pointed out, there's a ton of differences in this mono audio mix, in everything from additional lines of dialogue, different takes, mixing levels, score and added reverb/echo on some dialogue etc. Wonder if this still is a fold-down of a different stereo mix, it was clearly done at a much later stage in the films release and you really have to wonder if this was an additional theatrical mix done for foreign markets or a re-release? One things for sure, lots of work went into it. It will be interesting to hear what the audio is on the other print.

Thank you Puggo!! :)