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I don't really think there's much of a pattern going on at all. The original VHS releases were done during a completely different business model based upon the rental concept. By the time the big CAV Star Wars box set came out, laserdiscs had been around for a very long time and were pretty much established as a niche market item. I don't think it's quite analogous to the emergence of either DVD or Blu-ray, the latter of which is pretty much doomed to be a niche market item anyway.
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Jan 13, 2010 - 5:34 AM
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John-73
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The 2-CD special editions don't have ALL the trilogy music, as Lukas said above. I distinctly recall the ROTJ set missing the source cue from Jabba's sail barge. Always loved that tune and would love to hear it isolated, but I think someone said a few years ago that it's lost, or they simply couldn't find it at the time when producing these sets in 1997. I remember hearing it in one of the background scenes for the "Classic Creatures: The Making of ROTJ" special too. I love this peace of music too - it can also be found on the ROTJ Radio Drama from NPR, and the quality sounded great on that, so the tapes must have gone missing after that was mixed I'm guessing? I'm not complaining at all about the content of the 2-CD RCA discs however, which is just about perfect, just the mixing. Star Wars is the best of the bunch, but even that still lacks a sense of spaciousness - like you are IN with the orchestra, rather than having an overall aural view of the orchestra (if that makes sense). It's a claustrophobic mix. The Anthology set on the otherhand is mixed beautifully (a couple of switched channels aside) and really gives a sweeping panoramic feel to the music - it sounds epic, in short. The dynamics are absolutely astounding on a good high-end system too - the orchestral 'stab' on 'fight with the fighters' on Jedi pins you to the back of your chair. That same 'stab' on the 2-CD RCA or Sony set doesn't have any kick to it whatsoever. Boy I'd love to hear that 5th CD........ sigh!
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I believe there is one Jabba's sail barge source cue still missing to this day. We discussed it briefly in this thread: http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=24472&forumID=1&archive=1 Thor said he thought he had a CD-R transfer of the cue in his collection, but he couldn't remember the title of the piece, and he may have been confusing it with his memory of one of the 1983 "Lapti Nek" vinyl singles. Any of this ring a bell, Thor?
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Disney do not currently own the rights to release the scores. Sony Classical does
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