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I just recieved my TV guide today and noticed that ITV 1 are showing the trilogy over the christmas break, in the TV guide its listed as the non SE versions can anyone verify this with another TV guide or insider information?

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Yeah ive got the radio times and its in there too

Star Wars - 29 Dec
Empire - 30 Dec
Jedi - 31 Dec

on ITV1

Theyve put the years of the films as the originals but who knows what versions theyll show. Im guessing the special editions.
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Even if they're DTV (they've been on DTV in the UK before, so this is certainly possible), they may not be advert-free, widescreen OAR, or anamorphic. In fact, they never have been before, so I wouldn't hold my breath.

The best English-language broadcasts remain the Fox 480p, widescreen OAR, anamorphic broadcasts of Empire and Jedi. No ANH, and there were ad breaks every few minutes. Still, they're not too bad. A few glitches (originating from Fox, not the affiliates), but decent most of the time.
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IIRC, last time ITV showed the OT they were the special editions, 16:9 (but not OAR).
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I saw an ad for the trilogy on ITV. It showed a clip of the original ESB Emperor and it looked like a dirty print. Probably still the SE though...sulk.

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Well, it could be worse and be the 2004 version... x.x;;;

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The TV guide my wife picked up today lists ANH as year 1977 (probably a mistake), the description of ESB and ROTJ mentions "re-edited version" and lists the years as 1997.

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ANH has just been on - deffo the 97SE version

Watching it again, I can't believe what a wuss Wedge is when he gets hit in the Death Star Trench Run!

He could have stayed with them instead of bailing out - acting as another ship for the 3 Imperial Ships to shoot at, or took one for the team, or even slammed on the brakes for the following ships to hit him!

Wedge = Wuss

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Yeah, I never quite understood why they didn't just hit the eject button and fire R2 into the three tie fighters - lack of a rear gun is a big failing in seemingly every spaceship design.
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LOL

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I mean seriously, chucking some rocks out the back would probably have been effective..
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It worked in ROTJ.

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So if they had replaced the R2 units in the x-wings with ewoks with a pocket full of rocks, the death star would have been a pushover - And a huge cheer from the audience when an ewok caught a bolt to the head a-la R2 in EP IV
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ROTFLMAO!

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<span class=“Bold”>Go-Mer-Tonic: I can’t say I find that very disappointing.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>JediRandy: I won’t suck as much as a fan edit.</span>