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#242743
Topic
Dr. M's Reinventing The Wheel Edition (PAL to NTSC+) (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/242743/action/topic#242743
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Originally posted by: Hal 9000
ANH looks like a long road still.
Fear not.
If worse comes to worst, you can cruise over to Gladstone and get it from me

ESB is doing better because it has more exposure, having been cross-posted to mininova.
Also, wainsco might still be seeding ESB and he has a lot more bandwidth than I.

8376 has done a great job increasing his overall share ratio from 0.63 to 0.83 since I've been watching.
Disk space limitations prevent me from seeding many torrents at once, but if he leaves his computer on tomorrow he'll finish, finally.
I hope he'll continue seeding when he can, in pursuit of the 1:1 ratio.

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#242652
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Important Questions I need answered about original triliogy about to be released on DVD
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/242652/action/topic#242652
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Originally posted by: auraloffalwaffle
Isn't "you're lucky you don't taste very good!" the line in the original 1980 release?
Depends upon which theater you attended in 1980. If you saw a 35mm print you heard "don't taste very good," and that line was used on all pre-SE home video releases.
The '97 SE sound mix more closely resembles the original 70mm, and has the line "lucky to get out of there."

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#242091
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Episode IV: What Has Changed?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/242091/action/topic#242091
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Originally posted by: taylorjohn21
I have the original sound track on an old tape
Not "the original sound track" but instead one of three original sound tracks. All three are original; all three were heard in theaters in 1977.
Depending on which theater you attended, you might have heard any of the three.

The Dolby samples you heard on the other web page are from the original 35mm stereo mix.

In addition the the three original sound tracks (35mm mono, 35mm stereo, 70mm surround) there have been four remixes done for home video releases in 1985, 1993, 1997 and 2004.
Out of the 7 total mixes (3 original + 4 remixes,) 6 of them (except the original mono) have the voice you don't like.
Chances are good the voice you don't like is on the DVD to be released next Tuesday.


Belbucus (the fellow doing the mono mix restoration) might be very interested to hear a copy of your tape !

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#241482
Topic
Episode IV: What Has Changed?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241482/action/topic#241482
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Sounds like the "original" soundtrack you're remembering is the mono version, which did have a different voice for the PA announcer.
But the 35mm stereo and 70mm surround mixes are no less "original." All three were heard in 1977, albeit in different theaters.
Of the three, the mono mix was completed last. So chances are the music you remember during the duel wasn't "edited out" but edited in after the 35mm & 70mm mixes were already finished.
Check out this page to hear clips from the mono mix, and see if that's the announcer's voice you remember.

No official home video release has included the mono mix, although bootleg versions do circulate. One forum member has a VHS tape from a television broadcast with the mono mix, which is being restored by an audio specialist (another forum member.)

General consensus is that the '93 laserdisc soundtrack most closely resembles the 70mm surround mix, with a few changes.
If you're hoping to hear the mono mix on the forthcoming DVD, don't hold your breath.

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#241233
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Info Wanted: Will the 2006 Japanese OUT look better than the 2006 US OUT?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241233/action/topic#241233
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Yes DE, Region 1 DVDs use black=16 just like all DVDs worldwide. R1 players add setup/pedestal to the composite & S-Video outputs.
Setup/pedestal isn't stored on the disc (at least it's not supposed to be--Cowclops v2 might be an exception,) and it's not added to the digital SDI or HDMI outputs of an R1 player.
Since they're digital not analog, LFL's D1 or D2 master tapes shouldn't have setup/pedestal on them either. It would have been added while mastering the North American laserdics & tapes.

That said, I suppose the Japanese DVDs still might look better that their Region 1 counterparts for some other reason than setup.

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#240329
Topic
Slideshow of ANH changes since 1977
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240329/action/topic#240329
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Originally posted by: Sokudo Ningyou
I'm just laughing at the fact they felt the need to re-edit the bloody crawl to look "more like a block" and to not end a paragraph with one word.
I think a major factor in reformatting the entire crawl was their desire to keep the same number of frames as the original. If they had simply inserted Episode IV: A New Hope above the original crawl, it would've thrown the soundtrack out of sync.
Still, I don't understand why they felt the need to capitalize "rebel" in the middle of a sentence.


I won't even try to defend rontos....
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#240325
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<strong>The &quot;EditDroid&quot; Trilogy DVD Info and Feedback Thread</strong> (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240325/action/topic#240325
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Originally posted by: Gillean
There were no official covers, so you have a bit of a choice for them.
Yes there are official covers, as well as labels and case inserts.

Here's a post from alt.binaries.starwars on 08 Feb 2005:

This repost of coverart for the "Mysterious Mysteries" edition DVDs (which I would prefer be called the
"EditDroid" editions) is necessary because of the JPEG conversions I saw on Grisan's site.

The files I originally uploaded were CMYK TIFFs, exactly as I had originally made them, intended for
high-quality print output. I'm not implying that Grisan is responsible, but the files on his site are
very poor RGB conversions. Whatever process they used to convert colorspaces threw colors way
out of whack.

So from the "if you want something done right, do it yourself" department, here are proper RGB
conversions, saved as JPEGs, of the original coverart.

Thank you, and enjoy.


The whole ball-o-wax can be found inside Blaksvn's RotJ torrent @myspleen, which currently shows three seeders.