Star Wars, Laserdisc, Fox video, 1992
Digital Stereo
|
In 1992 the first Star Wars film got a new Laserdisc release, this time with digital sound (PCM stereo). It is in cropped "fullframe" format, and still time-compressed to fit under 2 hours. (To save on running time they even fade in the FBI warning while the last notes of the end credit music are still playing.)
This seems to be the same "new" transfer that was first used for the 1985 CAV release. The colours and cropping match, but the image is noticeably softer. Time compression was done in many different ways, either by speeding up the film or eliminating frames at the heads and tails of scenes, or sometimes both. It is pretty much imperceptible, but shouldn't still be a thing this late in the Laserdisc format's development. |
Company logo
|
Company logo
|
Title card
|
Opening crawl (Cropped)
|
Star Destroyer (Cropped)
|
Cropped binoculars
|
Greedo subtitles
|
Ben's saber
|
End credits
|
FBI warning
|
