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   From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 30 May 2007 18:29:34 +0000 (UTC), Taki Kogoma wrote in   
   :   
      
   >On 30 May 2007 13:50:14 -0400, wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr)   
   >allegedly declared to rec.arts.sf.written...   
   >>In article <465CA66A.1060208@sgeObviousinc.com>,   
   >>Sea Wasp  said:   
   >>> I have that too, except I didn't have to pirate it. Lucas released   
   >>> the original versions on DVD last year. Right down to neither "A   
   >>> New Hope" or "Episode IV" on the opening crawl.   
   >>   
   >>The absolute original, with utterly no post-May-1977 changes?  Wow.   
   >   
   >I haven't bothered to dig out my c. 1985 VHS copies to compare, but   
   >ISTM that some of the c. 1997 visual effects cleanup (landspeeder blur,   
   >slight reddish tint on some spaceship mattes, slightly transparent   
   >matte lines for the Battle of Hoth) and overall print restoration work   
   >are part of the "original version" DVDs.   
      
     Did the cleanup include the horrible overbrightening of every bit of   
   the screen?  I saw that in the VHS tape release and couldn't stand it.   
      
      
   >   
   >However, none of the overt 'enhancements' (Mos Eisley, Cloud City) or   
   >additional scenes are part of the product, and Greedo does *not* get   
   >off a shot.   
      
      
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