Since I just watched the JSC for the first time and couldn’t find a proper place to comment, here’s a new discussion thread just for this 1986-1987 trilogy from Japan that we all know well but doesn’t get much mention anymore.

I was floored by how good this looked on my CRT. It may be the most balanced color of any home release, and I’m one of those who likes the Technidisc saturation best.

And noo motion smearing!

BTW the 1985 remix here is very very clean with only a couple very minor instances of damage on the high end. There is also a very natural layer of tape hiss that suggests direct transfer of elements without noise reduction.

It seems the Pioneer/Mitsubishe SWE USA releases used this master, which at first created the shrinking aspect ratio due to covering up the Japanese subs. I’ve seen some of those and seeing this is like pulling the wool off your eyes.

My questions are: Where the heck did the source come from? Where did it go? Why did they do a new 1985 mix?

And are the ESB and ROTJ JSC releases as impressive as SW? If so…my wallet is disturbed by lack of contents.