papascooby

God I love this movie.

Halfway though watcing it now (on a reasonably good home cinema set up), and it looks fantastic.

Colours, clarity and sound superb

16vmarc

Watching A New Hope now

papascooby

LOL. I suppose a few people might be doing both, but a coincidence none the less.

their just about to rescue leia

16vmarc

Im not that far in yet!

ScoobyJawa

Watched half the bonus DVD mon, followed by A New Hope.

Tues was other half of bonus and Empire Strikes Back.

Weds was Return of the Jedi.

Jobs a good un - and without doubt THE best films of all time EVER And in such good image and sound quality it was fapping superb watching them.

Just shows how much they got it wrong with the new ones

logiclee

I can't believe how much better the new 5.1EX mix is over the old 5.1mix that was on the Jap NTSC Laser Disc.

Mr Lucas has obviously been hard at work.

Cheers
Lee

prodriva

Can someone tell me what the difference is between the gold and silver box sets please? All I've seen are the silver ones in the shops (someone mentioned a gold version on another thread, Sith I think).

papascooby

and they finally mad Vaders lightsaber glow when Luke shoots the blast doors closed. Hooray, I was livid when it was still metal looking in the new versions of the videos.

Johnny50

Looked at the box sets lastnight, but never bought them...maybe i should reconsider.
Are they worth getting ?

It's only £32 or something anyway..

Iain Young

As far as the UK version goes the only difference is that HMV used "special edition" gold cardboard packaging as opposed to the standard silver. The actual contents of the dvds etc are exactly the same.

If you're importing the (Region 1) USA versions, then I think silver is normal 4:3 ratio, whereas gold is 16:9 widescreen....

Iain Young

Depends if you want to own three of the best (in its genre) films of all time. The transfer is excellent as well

Preordered mine from Amazon.co.uk and it only cost £24.99

mrklaw

watched the documentary and episode IV so far. Picture is incredibly good quality - very impressed.

Oh, and I think it was popular. On monday our office postie came round and said that Amazon delivered 15 box sets to our office!

16vmarc

Im going to pass judgement when i see The Emire Strikes Back again, For the video they went over the X-Wing cockpit because they were transuclent and you could still see the TA-TA's. But if you look carefully on the Special Edition version you could still see them, so ill have to see if they got it right for the dvd transfer

Anyone else notice the stormtrooper bang his head on the door in A New Hope!!

Albert47

I've heard there is easter egg on(not chocolate) on the bonus disc of all the out takes.

Is this true?
Anyone know how access it?

As for the storm trooper banging his head, i think it's been cut out. Unless i mised it!

Adam

16vmarc

No, its still there!! Complete with sound effect!!

Mogsi

http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/showthread.php?t=364154

gregjd

Where am I looking for the Stormtrooper banging his head? Is it on the bit when they open and close the blast doors in the Death Star?

Albert47

Mogsi, cheers for that, must of missed first time round!!

I will check out the storm trooper banging his head missed that as well!!!!

Help Star Wars brain washing me

16vmarc

They blast the door where C-3PO and R2-D2 are in the Death Star, The door doesnt open fully and one of them bangs his head.

gregjd

Cheers.. Can't believe I've never spotted it, have only seen Star Wars about 500 times!

Nimbus

I'm sure it was a typo, but it should of course be AT-AT... (All Terrain Armoured Transport)

16vmarc

Yeah them aswell

Albert47

The storm trooper banging his head has been cut on mine. I am looking in the right place.

Its where c-3po and r2-d2 are in the control room of the death star. The storm troopers walk and find them in the cupboard.

Mine are the new ones, must of noticed it and cut it out.

Cheers Adam

16vmarc

Its not on your dvd???

Albert47

no its not there. chapter 35 about 1h 19mins into the film. it is the right place. it's covered by another storm troopers head. I have seen it before though. I thought it was missing when i watched it the other day. that why i answered yr thread. never mind not that bothered, i was just curious.

Adam

Sith

Not watched ANH yet. Annoyed the tinkerman has been at that aswell. Always brought a smile to my face watching an ST whack his head.

(It's a SW thread, I had to post some time. )

Krade

The Stormie bumping his head is deff on the WS version (Silver box), if you have the Gold box 4:3 (pan and Scan) it may have been chopped of as its at the far right edge of the screen.

16vmarc

The gold is exactly the same transfer. In the UK.

carl

Personally I thought they'd overdone it, particularly with ANH. The colours are just too bright and unrealistic. I had to turn the colour down on the TV.

For example, the bit where Luke and his uncle are buying the droids. The sand is bright yellow, the sky bright blue, the other droid (R5D4, I think) has bright red markings and R2D2 has bright blue markings.

Neil Smalley

Just watched the 1st one again with my 6 year old son. Seeing his eyes go wide in wonder at X wings, tie fighters, lightsabers etc brings it right back how I felt when I first saw in it 77. I'm not a starwars geek or anything but seeing his face, listening to his questions all in that tone of wonder only a small child can must is now a precious memory.

People might moan about how Lucas spoiled the films etc, but my six year old cares not a jot. He's just gone to bed, as I went to bed nearly30 years ago with a head full of images and story that i'm sure he'll remember just as I did..