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Star Wars (Version B)

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This bootleg version also appears to have been mastered using an Asian release of the special edition laserdisc. But it's got a completely different set of trailers. It starts with one for a company called "Look", although I doubt very much if Look (whoever they are) had anything to do with this disc. Then we see the Fox logo, followed by the Dolby Digital "Egypt" and new THX laserdisc trailers, both in Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound. You then get the menu page you see below (at top), which is animated - scenes from the film play in the background. Here's where things get a little weird. The menu allows you to select two options other than starting the film. The first plays a series of DTS trailers, in 5.1 sound (but NOT DTS 5.1). You also get a demonstration of Dolby Digital 5.1 audio, where you see a set of speakers which "vibrate" individually on screen as sounds move around the room.

As for the film itself, it's in letterboxed widescreen and includes Chinese subtitles in white at the bottom (in the black bar). However, there are NO chapter stops at all, so if you want to watch a particular scene, you'll be scanning a LONG time. The audio is Dolby Digital 5.1. The printing on the disc itself is nicer looking, using artwork from the special edition release poster. It claims that the disc is Region 6, but it's really got NO region coding on it at all.

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.

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