CT Best Official release of the OT?

What do you consider to be the best official home video release of the trilogy so far?



I would have to say the Definitive Edition laserdiscs are the best because they contain the theatrical versions and don't have the weird colour issues of the DVDs.

There hasn't been one yet, in my opinion. We get laserdisc transfers of the OOT, weird colored SE's, etc. I am hoping for the OOT and SE in full HD with correct colors and proper sound mixes. The soundtrack got buried in the last DVD release. And please George, give us the OOT one last time. This time do it right. Thanks.

I like the 90's trilogy box with the Vader, Trooper, and Yoda heads. If only the Blu Rays had that kind of packaging.

[image=http://www.coolwatersprods.com/images/kershVHS.jpg]
But I've heard this is only in fullscreen?

Pretty sure that's true.

I like that set partly because of the Lucas interviews at the end.

My favorite releases are the 2004 DVDs though.

Those were my favorites as well, brings back memories. I remember when I was a kid watching those all day with my sister's boyfriend. Good times.

Those VHS's were how I was introduced to the OT when I was 6. I still have them!

The OT got VHS releases in Europe in 1995. Those were good. But VHS is passé, obviously.

My vote goes to the 90s VHS released it was my first formal steps into stat wars formal (I had seen scenss of it when it was on TV but didn't know what it was. I also remembering seeing a commercial for it on a show I taped and remember when the Muppet babies spoofed it). It was magical for me and will never forget it. I watched ANH so many times that the tape broke

The DVDs with the original non special editions movies.

I have the widescreen versions of that THX-enhanced "one last time" edition; got it at Suncoast December 1995 after a parent got me the full screen ones. The complete case is black with Vader's face on it, and contains each tape side by side with those cover designs. I don't really like those covers, but I generally like movie covers to look like or similar to the original movie posters.
From what I've read, the Definitive Collection laserdisc seems to be the best because of the extras included. I've never watched them though.

Agreed. On every point. The Endor Battle seems less one-sided somehow. And I had the same experience with the acting and noticing little nuances in facial expressions. The BluRay format even seems to work wonders on the acting in Episode I. Who knew??

Though, like you said, some of the matte boxes are kinda disappointing for someone who looks for them. Turning the darkness up just a tad eliminates most of the ones visible in space, but once inside the Death Star, the tie fighter's matte boxes are pretty visible. But since everything else besides the matte boxes are clearer than we've ever seen them before, it doesn't seem so bad.

Exactly. Same here. Really though, if you adjust the darkness on your screen the matte boxes in the ROTJ space battles are pretty much gone.

There's also this hideous serpent puppet on the ceiling of Jabba's lair I was hoping not to see on the BluRay. You can see it/him/her while Threepio sentences Han and Luke to death. I guess I'll have to continue pretending it's some sort of ugly decoration. It has this really long extended tongue that just sort of stays there and looks horrifically fake. I really shouldn't even be pointing it out to anyone.

Now that I understand the tongue's motivation, it may not bother me.

Now if I could only rationalize backwards Boba.I'm sure I'll think of something.

Honestly, the only time I watched the new editions of the OT I was running on nearly three days of sleeplessness. I'm sure half of the wonderful new things I noticed about the films were pure hallucination. When I actually buy the discs and watch them I'll let you know.

Though I will say that the models and matte paintings look 100% alive and real in the OT. And yet so bold and jump-off-the-screen-new-looking that most of the original effects match and even surpass the CG of the prequels. Which is another reason why I think the OOT-only crowd will actually be missing out this time. If you haven't seen these movies in HD, all SE-additions aside, you haven't really seen these movies.

I like the widescreen version of the vhs boxset from 2001 with the AOTC sneak preview as a bonus feature. Thats the one i had and i use to love it because it was when i first got a decent version of the OT in widescreen and also all the box art perfectly matched my TPM and AOTC vhs tapes. I have the best memories with this one because i really thought it was a pre curser for what the dvd 6 pack set was going to look like (back when i thought it was going to drop as soon as ROTS was finished).

Its a shame ROTS didn't get a vhs! just for symbolic reasons if nothing else it would have been fantastic to have just one vhs box set of the Prequel trilogy. I would love to see what it would look like on a shelf next the the vhs of the OT. It would probably just look really satisfying.

That's exactly why I'd rather not watch them. It'll make not having a quality OOT even more frustrating. Every SE bit would be like having a big watermark on the corner of the frame.