Site created 12/15/97.		page created: 5/22/00 Star Wars (Version A) Back to the Bootleg Index This is definitely the better of the bootleg versions of Star Wars, mastered using an Asian release of the special edition laserdisc. It opens with the Fox Home Entertainment logo, and then follows with the Dolby Digital "City" and THX laserdisc trailers, both in true Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound. You then get the menu page you see below (at top). From this menu, you can chose to watch the film in either 5.1 or 2.0 surround (it actually has both on the disc, and you can switch "on the fly" using your remote). There's a single page of production notes, and a chapter menu with 6 chapter selections (note that there are actually 7 chapters in all). The image is letterboxed, with English subs in red at the top (in the top black bar) and Chinese subtitles in white at the bottom (again, in the black bar). The disc also includes a brief "behind-the-scenes" featurette, tagged on to the end of the film (from the laserdisc). Note that the disc's screen printing (above) claims it's a Paramount title. You can see screen shots from the disc below. Keep in mind that when resizing them for the Internet, Photoshop tends to minimize imperfections in the picture, so the images may make the video quality seem better than it is. I would say that the quality here is somewhat less than laserdisc (it is a copy, after all), but better than VHS. Back to the Bootleg Index
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