View Full Version : Is there a digitally remastered but otherwise unchanged Star Wars DVD set?
Magus
06-01-2011, 08:45 PM
Can anyone point me to a digitally remastered version of the original Star Wars trilogy on DVD but which doesn't have all the silly changes Lucas made (Greedo shooting first, the musical scene in Jedi, etc.)? According to what I've found, those ones they sell at Wal-Mart have the Special Edition and also the original film, but the original film isn't digitally remastered, so it still has all the things one would expect them to fix (like the huge black lines in the speeder scene and so on).
So any help on which DVD set to pick up?
rpgdemon
06-01-2011, 08:52 PM
I don't think that exists. Supposedly because Lucas lost the original footage.
I dunno if that's true or not, but it's what I heard.
RickZarber
06-02-2011, 10:24 AM
Sorta. It's because Lucas re-purposed the original camera negatives for the Special Editions. So the remastering went on at the same time as the re-editing and new FX, and the new digital masters were minted from that.
Magus
06-02-2011, 07:31 PM
So they'd have to respend money on digitally remastering it without the FX? Sounds fishy. Surely there'd be copies of the footage during whatever steps were in between for them to start from to save money...
Or they should just go ahead and invest the money in making a digitally remastered version without all the bells and whistles or they're never going to get my money.
Flarecobra
06-02-2011, 07:54 PM
Only way you can get that is if someone put the origionals on DVD from VHS, and cleaned them up themselves pretty much.
There is this (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars_DVD_releases#Star_Wars_Trilogy_-_Unaltered). I own it. The theatrical cuts aren't remastered, but they're there.
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