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Post #71853

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grisan
Parent topic
Star Wars OT ANH - PAL Laserdisc transfer (Released)
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Date created
17-Oct-2004, 4:19 PM
Hi,

LDDB really ist quite incomplete. A while ago I registered there to add some info about my Laserdisc, but never did.
I know that english SW THX LDs are not listed there, and I always wondered if this can really be true. Laserdisc never was popular in Europe, but most PAL LDs were released in the UK afaik.
I know for sure that the 1995 THX LDs of SW OT were released in Germany and France (and Spain?) so I believed a UK version must exist, too. It seems I was wrong, because I never saw it at Ebay or read anywhere about it.

BTW:
There are 3 german Star Wars LD sets:
1993 Letterbox, CLV, non-THX (bad picture quality)
1995 Letterbox, CAV, THX
1997 Letterbox, CLV, THX
and I also have a single german Star Wars ANH LD from 1982!

I decided to use footage from my british PAL SE LDs for the openings and subtitled sequences, as suggested by some people. I just checked and captured these scenes. Quality is much better than the NTSC conversion, and the Greedo scene is also better because the subtitles are in the black letterbox bars and not in the picture. Even the Greedo shoots first issue is no problem because in the OT version you never actually see Han shoot (like in the SE), so I can simply cut this out.

I also converted the PCM audio from TR47 DVD to PAL with Besweet. It should be no problem to sync it to my videotrack.

Greetings
Grisan