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Star Wars Episode I, DVD, Bootleg, China (?) 2001
What is retained from the official DVD is the anamorphic widescreen image and the Dolby Digital 5.1 English soundtrack. Though advertised on the back, you won't find the Audio commentary or Spanish dubs on this disc. Subtitles are optional, and come in English, Chinese, Indonesian and Thai. (The Spanish and Malay subs mentioned on the back are not on the disc). Any on-screen subtitles for the alien languages are removed, and not even translated in any of the different subtitle languages. The THX optimizer feature remains on the Options menu, but is no longer on the disc, nor are the DVD-ROM StarWars.com features, though their menu screen remains too.
The cover and disc contains no foreign languages, just English, and I suspect this particular release was made specifically to cater to English speaking customers. If it wasn't for the Asian subtitle options, you couldn't point to Asia being the country of origin for this bootleg. The .VOB files are dated October 2001.
This particular bootleg was found in a thrift shop in Norway in 2026, along with several other Star Wars bootlegs.
This is a bootleg of the official US DVD, but with all extras removed. It's crammed onto a single layer disc with a high level of compression. This is the 2001 cut of the film, with added pod race and air taxi scenes, as well as some other additions.
Dolby Digital trailer
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Main menu
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Chapter menu
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Options menu
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StarWars.com menu
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Fox fanfare
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A long time ago...
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Title card
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Crawl
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Dioxis!
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Careful, Sebulba
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Air taxi scene
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Senate aliens
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Added bridge
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Puppet Yoda
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End credits
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