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I will buy the digital edition just for this reason alone. Han shooting first is a critical portion of his character development. All the other Special Edition fluff I actually kinda like, but the Han vs Greedo scene needs to be but back the way it was.

The article has been updated to state that Australians buying the digital edition report that the rumor is not true; Greedo still takes that stupid missed shot.

Didn't Lucas ordered the original tape destroyed after making Special Edition?

And anyway, if there's is something wrong with SE, I'd say that 'young Jabba' crap ranks up there with Greedo shooting first. Can we go back to his old bouncer? And delete Boba Fett from that scene too? Thanks

Didn't Lucas ordered the original tape destroyed after making Special Edition?

I think that's a myth. I bought a special set that contained both the original and special editions all in one box. This was several years ago but still long after the special edition was made.

Borgholio wrote:I think that's a myth. I bought a special set that contained both the original and special editions all in one box. This was several years ago but still long after the special edition was made.

If you mean 2006 box, Wiki suggests it was just bad copy of 1993 laserdiscs, and master tape is indeed gone:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ch ... VD_release

Irbis wrote:

Borgholio wrote:I think that's a myth. I bought a special set that contained both the original and special editions all in one box. This was several years ago but still long after the special edition was made.

If you mean 2006 box, Wiki suggests it was just bad copy of 1993 laserdiscs, and master tape is indeed gone:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ch ... VD_release

Odd how I never noticed any poor quality images in the original edition discs...at least compared to the VHS versions.

Borgholio wrote:Odd how I never noticed any poor quality images in the original edition discs...at least compared to the VHS versions.

Well, Laserdisc WAS better than VHS, it just fallen short of good DVD and (especially) HD sources. If they massaged it a bit, it might look passable. Or, alternatively, the special edition was badly done (see incorrect colors debacle) and the laserdisc doesn't look that bad compared to it.

see incorrect colors debacle

You mean where Luke's lightsaber is green instead of blue? Yeah...

Any word whether the scene is in or optional for the Entire Saga Bluray set?

Irbis wrote:Didn't Lucas ordered the original tape destroyed after making Special Edition?

It doesn't matter. I have a VHS of movie including Han shooting first, if they really want to include it, they could just do restoration on mine and publish it. Never mind the thousands of other people who have the same. Or they could just edit the cut again so han shoots first, it wouldn't be that difficult.

jwl wrote:I have a VHS of movie including Han shooting first, if they really want to include it, they could just do restoration on mine and publish it.

Well, sure, if you want sudden explosion of people calling their TV/bluray/new SW discs are defective. Even DVDs look bad on HD television, I don't want to imagine people complaining after seeing sub-SD picture.

Or they could just edit the cut again so han shoots first, it wouldn't be that difficult.

If old master tape is gone, Greedo shooting first is literally burned onto new master now. It's a lot easier to add something to picture than to remove it, sure, it can be done, but it won't look like the old, unaltered sequence.

They would just need to make the Likited Edition Theatrical Edition DVDs the masters. I have them and I'm keeping them!

Tychu wrote:They would just need to make the Likited Edition Theatrical Edition DVDs the masters. I have them and I'm keeping them!

Aren't they lower quality than even the 2004 DVDs?