But that alas is not how it works. Sure, I've been lucky myself, but I have also lived in remote backwater places where there wasn't anyone in sight who knew how to fix a LD player, or knew the first thing about how to get a new one, and since I am seeing e-bay auctions for the original cuts shoot up to high prices (and I know because I am unloading my duplicate LD copies), the argument that used LDs are readily available is another lie from the Lucas whitewash brigade.

Obsolete formats may endure for the short-term but over the long-term they disappear to the point that while something still exists, it loses its degree of accessibility. Many vintage TV programs in archival vaults can't be brought out because they're on obsolete 3/4 inch videotape and no one thought to transfer them to up to date formats. I fear we are in for the same thing with the original SW trilogy over the long haul until Lucas gets it through his head that there is a market that wants the original cuts as a *choice*.

Somebody there is covering their ass big time.

[Edit: Earlier I thought they had removed all of my posts from the main Star Wars thread. After closer inspection it appears that three of my posts were spared from deletion.]

Sorry to hear about what happened to you there.

I was banned, too. I've never cursed there. I've never insulted anyone. I could back up every claim I made about "A New Hope" there with good solid evidence. The only problem is, I was speaking out against Ron's sponsors. In fact I questioned Ron on several occasions and that's what led to my being booted, I think. They have not responded to my e-mail asking why I was banned. None of my posts, to my knowledge though have been deleted. I guess it would look to suspicious, since I'm a pretty well known poster in that Star Wars thread.

I've had some interesting observations as an observer lately. Someone there called me a "dickhead". His post has been removed, but he has not been banned. Someone else defended me there after my banning and then later he e-mailed me: he had been banned. A person that argued against me about the missing music I pointed out is now realizing that the music really is missing and wants it fixed. Someone accused me of just wanting to bash the set in anyway when I said the dialogue track went from sounding like AM radio to CD quality in the middle of a sentence. Yesterday, someone posted the exact same thing and was never accused of having a grudge. I'm noticing a lot of hypocrites there and anyone who posts there that they enjoy this set is actually going against that boards "Mission Statement". It's a very disappointing thing.

Neil

It's sadly ironic that during the short segment on Williams' score, there a point where we see Williams conducting the LSO with Star Wars on the screen behind them, and the narrator mentioning how the score exceeded Lucas' expectations. At that very point (just before the 1 hr 11 mins mark), the narration goes quiet and you hear a full rendition of the Force theme as the X-wings swoop down into the trench - the very piece that was muted out of the ANH DVD.

It's sadly ironic that during the short segment on Williams' score, there a point where we see Williams conducting the LSO with Star Wars on the screen behind them, and the narrator mentioning how the score exceeded Lucas' expectations. At that very point (just before the 1 hr 11 mins mark), the narration goes quiet and you hear a full rendition of the Force theme as the X-wings swoop down into the trench - the very piece that was muted out of the ANH DVD.

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Originally posted by Camillu:
At that very point (just before the 1 hr 11 mins mark), the narration goes quiet and you hear a full rendition of the Force theme as the X-wings swoop down into the trench - the very piece that was muted out of the ANH DVD.

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Very, very sad. Somebody needs to resurrect Bernard Herrmann for a few minutes so he can go apes--t on whoever messed with this great score.

And I went into the sister store of the devil today, Sam's Club, and they had the fullscreen DVD of Return of the Jedi playing all mangled up on various widescreen HDTV sets. It pains me to see such stupid stuff like this.