Not sure where to bring this up, but have been floating through SW webpages from the mid 90s and came across this 'Star Wars : Definitive Collection Flaw List' sounds similar to this threads issue.
http://web.archive.org/web/20021124151400/http://users.southeast.net/~datalore/starwars/THX.htm
Laserdisc is not my forte, is this common SW LD knowledge?
The Definitive Collection flaw list is common knowledge (I mentioned it here with reference to the flaws that had been carried over to the GOUT discs).
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It's one of those things I might've read before, maybe when Moth3r posted the link,
but that was a long time ago ... and I hadn't acquired my DC yet.
I'm glad none posted it again; I enjoyed reading it (again) from an owner's perspective.
Pulled out my ROTJ to check Jabba subs (they're wrong) and also the three flaws mentioned on side 5 got me curious.
Here's one of them, which confirms what I've already suspected by the missing Leia welding, that mine is the flawed early pressing:
Also want to thank Moth3r for the Mitsubishi screen caps. With younglings about, it's impressive you've found the time to do it.
In my own mind I'm quite skeptical that Mitsubishi ever pressed a corrected one. It would've meant cutting new masters and retooling their presses.
By the time that might've taken to do that, I suspect the contract had already been given to Technidisc.
This bit from the top of that flaw list caught my eye:
THX.htm said:
As some of you have heard, the non-THX CLV versions of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi have been put on moratorium. The THX box set however is still available. New THX-certified, CLV vers- ions of the THX masters are being released in a few weeks.
However, in practice you must take into account the “fuckwit factor”. Just talk to Darth Mallwalker…
-Moth3r