Star Wars, Laserdisc (CAV), CBS/Fox video, 1985
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This CAV Laserdisc (referred to as "Standard play") version of Star Wars enabled the viewer to freeze-frame and step forward/back the entire film to study the effects work. The CAV encoding was generally accepted as yielding better picture quality, but at the expense of convenience - the film had to be spread to five sides across three platters.
Since they had more disc space they didn't have to time-compress the film, and this CAV edition has a new, different transfer to the ones they used on previous releases. The image is sharper and cleaner, in addition to the superior CAV encoding, making this a stellar release for its time. These don't show up too often and are comparatively rare to the regular CLV ("Extended play") edition. |
Laservision logo
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Company logo
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Title card
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Opening crawl (Cropped)
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Star Destroyer (Cropped)
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End of side 1
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Side 2
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Cropped binoculars
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Side 3
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Greedo subtitles
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Side 4
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Ben's saber
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Side 5
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End credits
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FBI warning
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Side 6: LD turtle
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