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ORIGINAL STAR WARS MOVIES COMING TO DVD -- AT LAST Thursday, May 4 2006 
Responding
to
legions
of
fans,
Lucasfilm
and
20th
Century
Fox
Home
Entertainment
have
agreed
to
release
the
original
versions
of
the
first
three
Star
Wars
movies,
unmodified
by
digital
enhancements,
on
Sept.
12.
Each
of
the
films,
Star
Wars
(1977),
The
Empire
Strikes
Back
(1980),
and
Return
of
the
Jedi
(1983)
will
be
released
separately
and
will
be
accompanied
by
a
second
disc
offering
the
digitally
reedited
version
produced
in
2004.
They
will
be
withdrawn
(more)FANS DISCOVER GLITCH IN STAR WARS' DVD SOUNDTRACK Friday, September 24 2004 Fans of John Williams are up in arms over an apparent glitch in the new Star Wars DVD set in which the left and right channels fed to the rear speakers in surround sound are reversed in the original Star Wars movie (Episode 4). John Takis, who frequently analyzes film scores for Internet groups, points out that the violins can be heard coming from the left surround-sound speakers and the cellos from the left. "It (more) |
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Despite earlier reports that Lucasfilm would be re-releasing the original unedited theatrical versions of the first three Star Wars movies on DVD, it now turns out that they will be copied from the laserdiscs of the films released in the mid'90s, formatted for the conventional TV screen and not wide-screen "letterbox" versions. The revelation has provoked anger among Star Wars fans, expressed on such Internet sites as www.thedigitalbits.com, and www.hometheaterforum.com. VideoBusiness.com quoted Lucasfilm spokesman John Singh as saying. "We hoped that by releasing the original movies as a bonus disc, it would be a way to give the fans something that is fun. We certainly didn't want to be become a source of frustration for fans."
