
The Empires Strikes Back, Laserdisc, CBS/Fox video, 1992
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In 1992 the Star Wars films got new Laserdisc releases, this time with digital sound (PCM stereo). The films are in cropped "fullframe" format, and Empire is still time-compressed to fit under 2 hours.
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. |
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