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Star Wars Trilogy

Star Wars Trilogy

FilmStar Wars
Format5× LaserDisc
Runtime408 min.
AudioDolby Surround (Digital), Mono (Analog Left), Dolby Digital (Analog Right), Stereo
SubtitlesEnglish (Closed Captioned)
LanguagesEnglish
Aspect Ratio2.35:1
ColorColor
Video StandardNTSC
PackagingBox Set
ClassificationMPAA PG
Catalog Number4102985
Barcode086162410260
Brand20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Lucasfilm Ltd
CompanyTwentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
CopyrightTwentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc., Lucasfilm Ltd.
TerritoryUnited States, Canada
NotesFor unknown reasons - and making a mockery of the THX LD programs so-called "standards" - the Special Edition transfers in this box set have incorrect aspect ratios. Star Wars is only 2.21:1, instead of the correct Panavision ratio of 2.39:1, while Empire and Jedi's aspect ratios are both 2.28:1 - better than Star Wars, but still short of the original Panavision framing. In addition to being the very last release of the original three Star Wars films on LD, this LaserDisc set is the only home video release to present the Special Editions of all three films with the same picture and discrete digital soundtracks used for the theatrical releases. All later editions on DVD and Blu-ray are altered to various degrees and don't represent the theatrical prints. As a technical side-note, these are the only LaserDisc's of the Star Wars films to be encoded with Faroudja Lab's Super NTSC process which produces greater color resolution, reduces chroma noise and eliminates most of NTSC's artifacts such as dot crawl and flickering rainbows on closely spaced diagonal lines. While Super NTSC produces improved picture quality with all types of comb filters, when a Super NTSC LaserDisc is decoded with an advanced Motion Adaptive 3D comb filter, color resolution of up to 160 lines horizontally and 480 lines vertically with no loss of vertical, horizontal or diagonal luminance resolution is possible.
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