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Originally posted by: Darth Sheba
I bought the 1995 tapes, and I didn't have a VCR at the time. I kept them in the closet for almost two years before I finally bought one. Right now, they're sitting on a shelf next to the TV. I don't remember the last time I watched them, and I guess I haven't watched them because I'm a little scared the VCR will eat them one day.
- Pretty similar story for me. I have three different VHS releases of the Star Wars Trilogy. The first being CBS/Fox release from around 1989/90 (with the original movie poster artwork - really cool!), then I bought the 95 Widescreen Limited Edition - the one which stated "The Original Star Wars available for the last time". The final VHS release I bought was the not so special "Special Edition Gold Box", with the rather bogus pan&scan picture (they didn´t have the Silver one over here in Iceland).
I hardly played the 95 tapes at all out of fear of the VRC making a mess of them so I kept them stashed away safely and even more so when the Special Editions came out in 1997 and Lucas muttered those were his definitive vision! Then when the DVD format got going I was positive I could (much later that is) copy them to that medium and I just did that and the results are pretty good, the tapes were in really good condition. But I´m not completely satisfied, really want one of those Laserdisc bootlegs doing the rounds now. I want better picture & sound quality like everybody else I guess. But man, imagine the quality of an official Original Trilogy DVD release that Lucas could provide us with if he weren´t such a "politically correct" children´s clown, caught up in all the silly prequel mumbo jumbo and special effects fiasco (he seems to have forgotten what it´s all about hasn´t he!?). I sure hope one day he´ll come to his senses and give us what we want (or someone will smack it into him!), he can´t just ignore this, cause this ball is rollin‘ and is only gonna get bigger and bigger...
peace,
Rebelscum