I got the 7 DVD Ultimate Set from TR47 a few days ago AND IT ROCKS!! Absolutely brilliant a/v quality! I used to watch DVD transfers of my 95 PAL VHS Widescreen set (in mint condition) and I thought they were pretty darn good, but the laserdisc-to-dvd transfers beat the crap out of it in every way. I expected the lower resolution of the NTSC signal to trouble me but the signal was fortunatly as good as PAL on my Pioneer 656 player. I´ve got a 32" Philips TV and it has a great zoom feature which makes the non-anamorphic transfers look amazing. And the sound on those discs is the best sounding Star Wars since I saw them in the cinema when the SE were shown. Incredible bass, clarity and high fidelity all around with great stereo effects. That´s what one gets from the original uncompressed PCM sound. Listening to the bass heavy tremble when Vader forcechokes is proof enough. I´m in love with this set, absolutely!

As for the rest of this 7 DVD Ultimate Set (8 if you count the artwork disc also), well we have all the Definitive Edition extras on one disc including the commentaries for various scenes. I don´t think to much of those commentaries cause they mostly directly repeat what´s said on the Lucas, Burtt and Muren interviews from that very same laserdisc collection. Then we have three extra discs, each focusing on one movie. Spread out over those discs are the four original (about an hour long each) documentaries; The Making Of Star Wars, SP-FX: Empire Strikes Back, Classic Creatures: The Making Of Return Of The Jedi and finally From Star Wars To Jedi: The Making Of A Saga. The quality on those varies since they are obviously taken from some old VHS tapes. Classic Creatures comes out worst here with pretty muddy visuals (but watchable), the others are fine. There are also 3 trailers for each movie (really old and nostalgic ones to, a hoot to watch including a rare Revenge Of The Jedi trailer.) Then we have some old interviews with Carrie Fisher, Billie Dee Williams and Harrison Ford as well as original audition tapes for Hamill, Ford and Fisher (really fun to see that). There are really fun bits from a Saturday Night Live episode with sexy Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia and the Star Wars episode of "That 70´s Show" which is really enjoyable to watch. Added to that are the funny Troops mocumentary, two deleted scenes (one with good old Biggs Darklighter and another with Luke watching the skies on Tatooine (without sound), an alternate Cantina scene (with some lady smooching from Mr. Solo), some THX promos, the bit where Bart Simpson blows up the Death Star (hilarious!) and a Star Wars franchise commercial for childrens underwear for example (that´s psychadelic)! Mighty fine extras I have to say. With this came the eighth disc with some cool artwork to print out for covers, discartwork and more).

All in all I have to say I´m massively pleased with this set and can reccommend it to anyone looking for a quality version of the OT, the best one IMO bar the official DVD release of the forthcoming Special SE which contain all sorts of unpleasantries. I just might skip the official release since I have those TR47 DVD´s to quench my OT Star Wars thirst. We´ll see...

peace,

Rebelscum