All of it. It underwent a multi-million-dollar cleaning and restoration because the original negative stock had faded. The restoration was good enough that thousands of prints were struck and released to theaters worldwide, with no one complaining about the quality.

As far as the originals not existing anymore, Lucasfilm would have scanned the original negatives into a computer in order to recomposite the special effects and add new digital tweaks. These digital files then would have been printed back to film as new negatives, leaving the original negs unaffected by the changes (an advantage of a film source instead of the digital source in Mike Lowrey's example).

Lucas surely would not have destroyed these original negs, because he'll need them again in the future when he decides to tinker with them yet again (let's say to take care of any more continuity "problems" if he decides to film a third trilogy in a few years).

Then SHUT UP! Let us talk about what we want and get the hell out of threads about it.

Sorry to all for yet another OT post in this thread. (and yes, that's a double meaning)

Back at ya.

Well, the thread won't ever get back on track. Salty, Kal, and I all deleted our non-related posts. But it was for nothing. This thread won't ever get back on track now.

Do you really think Lucas is stupid enough to hit the save button and trash the originals completetly? I mean seriously. He has said the originals don't exist anymore in the his narrative sense, not that they don't physically exist somewhere in his computers.

Well, it's kind of a no-win. That other thread hasn't had a post in weeks & I don't think that's a bad thing. Some people have complained about the useless back & forth ranting going on here, but if we continued it in the other thread, then there would just be other people who would start complaining that there are too many Star Wars threads on the front page. A better solution would've been to have someone more dedicated start the thread who was willing to update the first post when news came out. Then we could all continue with our crazed ramblings while people who only want DVD info could just check the first post periodically. Of course, that wouldn't be perfect because people wouldn't know when the first post was updated, so ...hmm...

Maybe this thread is long enough for a Part 2 anyway.

As I indicated above, the beauty of film is that it exists outside of computers, thus enduring any digital tampering. Lucas has to keep it around for any possible future use, or put up with a significant loss in quality by using a second or third generation element.

I guess there's still a market for bootlegs of the OT.
I don't know if Lucas is greedy, if he was, he'd release the OT seperately and make lots of $$$.

Oh well, its his story, guess he can do what he wants. I for one am looking forward to the DVD release.

Where the fuck did you get that????? Lucky bastard.

The only problem with that is Lucas in all likelihood has hi-def digital masters of all 3 films and every element that exists, especially with the way he thinks in digital terms.

So are any retailers getting an exclusive disc or anything when this set streets?

Here you go.

Any others? I was hoping for something like what they did for Indiana Jones

Don't worry, we will all have ours in less than three weeks!

That is so hilarious. So how did they make the new Jabba for the DVD? Did they just take their erase tool and erase the SE Jabba, then add the new one? No... they went back to the version of the scene with Boba Fett already added (one of many versions of the movie that exist in digital form, including the original and the restored original) and added him again, just like they did in '96.

And anyway, your analogy doesn't even hold up. Graphics artists use several layers to composite a single image, not one flat image. It's easier to edit later that way, or create a version of the image without one particular part in a few seconds.

I doubt it.

Awww man.. I was hoping for a heavy-duty box (more like Indy, less like the Alien Quad) All well...

Atleast it'll be heavily glossed..

It's ok...NOT the greatest! I over hyped myself.

Doesn't really matter to me. I'll be displaying them in their separate amaray cases and storing the over-sleave case.

bestbuy's bonus disc offer sucks this time around. oh well, good for those who never picked it up.

There ya go, I was going to keep them in the box (black side facing out) next to the Indy and Alien sets.

Is it 9/21 yet??

From what I've seen of the cleaned up and re-done scenes, I cannot wait to hear and see this. Thank God for me my wife is out of town that night. I'll be watching all 3 back-to-back. And then maybe back-to-back again just because I can....

The first thing I do with the set is watch all the documentary. That's going to be awesome!

Yeah I cant wait for this documentary.

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Trust me, the originals are safe and sound.