The VHS covers are so much better than the Blu-ray and DVD covers. Something still special about those to this day. Reminds me of the 80s/90s rental stores.
My uncle was always on the cutting edge of tech (a high school science teacher) and had ESB on Betamax. This was about 1984. That was the only way i got to see it until the 1990s on rental VHS
There is one you missed. Blu Ray was not the last time Star Wars was released on physical media. There are Ultra 4K versions of all 9 of the films in the Saga. They were all released last year with the release of Rise of Skywalker on DVD, Blu Ray and 4K.
The CED version was available for purchase right away. If I recall... VHS and Beta were "rental only" till some months later. I still remember shelling out $250 for that laserdisc definitive box set at Suncoast Video.
That 1992 VHS box set was so good. It was great to see it in widescreen letterbox format. I remember the quality being excellent, I don't know how they got VHS to look so good but they did.
This is what I love about you man! Topics that feel like two beer slinging brothers talking Starwars. You hit me in the feels right there. Keep on keeping on brother!
I remember in 84 being with friends and going across town to a video store in Garland Texas to buy Empire Strikes Back on RCA disc. It was just as exciting as the day it came out in 1980. Great memories and great video.
I have purchased the original trilogy so many times over the years. The first time was the 1990 VHS boxset release. Before that, I made due with copies recorded off of television. The second time I purchased it was the 1995 Remastered VHS set. A few years later, I bought both the widescreen and Pan & Scan boxsets of the Special Edition. In the lean years, where it looked like we were never going to get a DVD release, I bought a Video-CD boxset, which I ordered from Malaysia. When we finally got a DVD boxset, I bought it. Then in 2006, when Lucas got tired of all the fans bellyaching about rereleasing the original versions and he threw some crappy laserdisc-scanned bonus discs in with another Special Edition release to shut us up, I bought those as well. And then in 2011 when the "Complete" Saga bluray set was released, I of course bought that too. After that, I went 10 whole years before purchasing it again. This year, I picked up a nice bootleg bluray set of the "despecialized" original trilogy. In the highly unlikely event we ever get an official HD release of the unaltered films, I will buy that, but until then, I'm done.
I got tired of buying them after my third set. First the THX, then the special edition, both sets full screen, then bought it widescreen on DVD. Didn't fork over money again on more DVDs just to get original version on DVD though, but burned my own DVDs of those.
I hate to correct you, Junkman, but the 2006 editions of the Trilogy did have a full screen option. The way to tell was when the cases had a blue bar on top that said full screen. The widescreen versions has the gold bar.
Only for the 2004 cuts, not the bonus discs. Those were 4:3 Letterbox and not 4:3 full frame or pan and scan. The THX master in 4:3 only exists on VHS and on Hong Kong Laserdisc with burnt in Cantonese Subtitles. I have the Hong Kong Return of the Jedi and it does look like a VHS transfer.
@@tyrannozilla , the set is excellent anyway and a good companion piece to my full screen Indiana Jones trilogy set. What i don't have is prequel Pan and Scan, I need to get those as I only have the VHS for Attack of the Clones.
The sad part of all this is that for DVD and Blu-ray versions there are many deleted scenes that are included as special features but there is no way to watch the movies with those scenes intergraded. Those scenes are complete with proper special effects so I don’t understand why they just don’t have an extended version to watch. With Episode 1 there is something I’ve never heard anyone else mention. On the pod race there is a deleted scene that accidentally made it in that was not in the theatrical version. That tells me at some point the deleted material was meant to be included in film then removed.
You forgot the 4K Skywalker Saga which is definitely the last time I will buy SW on home format 😂😁 these are also the only 4K movies I own and will ever likely to own!
Its great to hear you like letterbox. I have no idea why people like missing 2/3 of the screen.I still have my Special Edition VHS too. Gold and Silver next to one another just like the best buy display in 97.
Letterbox (black bars at top and bottom) is how you watch a Widescreen video on a Non-Widescreen display. Pillarbox (black bars at the left and right) is how you watch a Non-Widescreen video on a Widescreen display.
I will always hold on to select physical media. Certain movies on DVD or Blu Ray and certain music on CD. The internet can go down for a prolong period of time. Its good to keep some entertainment in physical form in case you need it.
The 95 version was the first box set I bought. I was 18 and had my own money by this time and found it at Blockbuster video in McComb Mississippi. A day I’ll always remember.
There is an enhanced blue ray version of the original films that was called the star wars project. It was available at one time on eBay It was a fan based release. I think they are called the despecialized edition.
As in Asia VCD (Video-CD) was more popular than VHS when the Special Editions came out, there was an official VCD Boxset from Malaysia. I got mine directly from Malaysia, but they could easily be found on eBay. Back then it was the only way to (legally) watch Star Wars on a DVD player - as 99% of DVD players at the time also played VCDs.
I think I got mine at Newbury Comics and they also had Phantom Menace, but I just bought the Star Wars trilogy. Now Phantom Menace is hard to find on VCD.
Hi-Fi referred to the audio. In Hi-Fi audio was recorded in the video portion of the 1/2" tape and read by the VCR's spinning helical video head, coupled with dbx noise-reduction. It was a massive improvement in audio fidelity over the previous linear mono or stereo versions.
I remember when the Star Wars movies when they were new were 79.95 & I was hoping my Dad would get a Laser Disc or CED player because Star Wars would be less money to buy.Oh well like many I had to wait for Star Wars to be economical to buy since we got a Vhs player. Junkman I loved your video going down memory lane! Thank You!
I had the hifi version of esb from about 1988 or so. And thenI got the 1990 box set, which was a big deal to have that.Befores that I was just watching broadcast TV versions that I recorded sometimes.
I heard that the quick death of the Laserdisc format was the reason Lucas waited so long to release the Original Trilogy on DVD. But by the time they did release them, DVDs were already on their way out and about to be replaced by Blu-Rays. I still have the DVDs with the original, non-SE, versions of the trilogy and those are the only copies of the films that I need.
I guess I'm a hold out. . I refuse to support the streaming services that control what you are able to watch. I have way to many DVDs to switch media now ...and the last SW version I bought was the 2006 DVDS that have the original version ...
I remember when there was no home format I saw Star Wars in 77 and didn't see it again until 1980 on TV!! that's real patience..and now I have it on Blu Ray and Disney+...had the old Wide-screen versions on VHS..and yet some of my work colleagues say Star what!!??..cheers Junkman🍺🍺🍻
here in germany we had in the late 80's/ early 90's the Silver Screen VHS Box with all three movies, the making of the first part and the first ewok movie. I still have it, together with the first DVD box and the first 6 movie BD box
When Rise of Skywalker was released on Bluray and 4K there was a really nice Best Buy exclusive 9 film Skywalker Saga set released that included all 9 films on both Bluray and 4K and with the digital download codes and a few extra discs full of special features... it's really great display piece as well. It sadly did not Include Rogue One or Solo, but I already have those on Bluray/4K sets... whenever I finally upgrade to 4K I will be all set for Star Wars... I also still have the 1990 VHS Set with all three films from when I was a kid, my dad still has the individual VHS Hi-Fi versions at his house as well as the Special Edition VHS set. I got all three of the limited edition DVD's that had both the Special Editions and Original Theatrical versions. Whenever I get my new shelving finished I will have a nice Star Wars Physical media collection. Working on getting the out of print Clone Wars Bluray sets too... the Complete Bluray set of Season 1-5 & S6/Lost Missions is really pricey, both for new and used, but I have been able to find the individual seasons used at decent prices online. Already have all of Rebels on Bluray.... even picked up the unofficial Despecialized Editions of the OT on Bluray and will probably need to go that route with season 7 of The Clone Wars, Bad Batch and The Mandalorian (and other future Disney+ Star Wars series) since those will probably never see an official physical media release... One day I may hunt down the Laser Discs, of the original trilogy but I don't feel I need them yet.
Junkman, don't forget - just last year they released the first 4K ultra HD blu rays of Star Wars too so I suppose that also can be counted as a separate release. But unless they can make significant improvements to the 4K I imagine you are correct that 2020 will be the last reissue of Star Wars in physical media.
We got the original Star Wars on Video Disc (90's Laser Disk was a different thing), and that was it other than renting Empire and Jedi on VHS till like, '95 with the THX version which I still have. I used to have the silver Vader Wide Screen DVD box set too, but ended up selling that when I got the complete Blu Ray Saga.
I never upgraded my Star Wars collection to Blu-ray, still have the DVD’s. I have the sequel trilogy on Blu-ray just not the original or prequel trilogies.
When I was a kid my dad bought a video disk player which was a bit better than vhs quality but I had Star Wars and in 1982 and my school teacher would let my dad hook up our player on the TV at school on a special free day and the kids saw Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi, & Indiana Jones. It was a real treat to the kids and I remember girls screaming when Tohts head melted
I remember when Star Wars first hit VHS, yeah, it was priced for rental... $120. Of course, we didn't even have a VCR back then, so all I could do was gaze longingly at the VHS. Over the years, however, I owned: - The Original Trilogy letterbox set with the hologram in the frony of the box. - The Star Wars Trilogy THX VHS set. - The Star Wars Special Edition widescreen silver box trilogy. - The Star Wars Original Trilogy on DVD in both Special and Unaltered Original Editions (where Star Wars was just Star Wars) - The Star Wars Ep I-VI Blu ray set. You and yours have a great holiday spec....er...I mean... season, JunkMan. 🙂
I'm pretty sure I had the 1995 vhs set, and the special edition widescreen in vhs. and the 2004 widescreen DVD box set. I bought Return of the Jedi on VHS when it first came out. Paid 80 bucks for it. I had to order it special from my local video store. The guy behind the counter looked at me like I had two heads when I told him I wanted to BUY it.
I have the laser disc version , and its the only version i know of that show the original way I saw it in the theaters, where you can see the actual 'mat' for the tie fighters fling and how corny the special effects were. i love it.
Don't hold me to this, but on those double format releases from the mid 2000s the non special edition versions were from the original 35mm cuts which ruffled some feathers since people were hoping for at least laser disc level remastering. I think to this day, the original cut of the OG trilogy has never been released remastered on the home market.
I think my old daycare had a super 8 version, I remember watching a shorten death Star rescue then goes straight to the award ceremony then repeats. Only thing was it was on a TV and not a projector
Junkman you never disappoint bro you always bring us all a great video/vlog. I don't remember some of the ways Star Wars was released on video. Awesome news I always learn something about my favorite movies Star Wars. Thank you again my friend and have a great day.
5:32 - The widescreen version of Empire Strikes Back of this version has a different Luke Skywalker voice dub when Artoo falls into the swamp. Luke shouts 'Artoo, I need you!' which is not heard in other versions of the film at all. Also Empire Strikes Back Super 8 film of Empire Strikes Back has voice dubs of different mixes of Ben's and Emperor's voice all with no eco, Bespin security's warnings to the falcon are a different vvoice and dialogue which Han cuts them off mid sentence like in the novel instead of the final movie. C-3PO says to R2 as he is dragged across the falcon ''Oh yes it is definately good to be back together' instead of 'I thought that hairy beast was going to be the end of me'
7:40 Nah, while mostly the original film, this version had the "A New Hope" retitling on it, just like the laserdisc it was ripped from. All home releases have had it, as it was added before Empire, well before the first home tape releases. Which is why the Despecialized versions are a godsend.
The dvd released as extra does not have the New Hope subtitle. And 1981 it was added to the films re-release. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changes_in_Star_Wars_re-releases
@@ThatJunkman 10000 apologies good sir. I have been wrong in my thinking for dozens of years it appears. And in my poor memory, I had the re-release as something in 1979 to drum up interest in Empire, not in 1981.. Honestly I'm shocked that the crawl survived tinkering that long.
@@ThatJunkman I have Sep 11 1990 version, but it is not have the A New Hope text on film. Also which was the last home release before the New Hope text?
@@ralphles21 All home video releases had the new hope in the text crawl. The only one that didn't was from the bonus disc from the 2006 limited edition dvd release. You might be thinking of the packaging.
When the Special Editions were released on VHS, i was all about it! I loved watching them in the theater in 1997 too. I grew up watching those old hi-fi 80s tapes, and then the black laserdisk boxed set. For the time, they had incredible sound, but they were 3 disks each! Now as a 40-something, I choose to watch only Project 4k77-83. I have no desire to see the Special Editions ever again. There's just too much cgi that feels way out of place in movies that were made in the late 70s, early 80s.
I have to say, I still prefer the physical copies...but I also back them up to hard drive. I don't get the "digital download". Oh... and don't forget, JunkMan, they have since been released to 4K.🙂
dont get download? Like you dont get that you can take all of your movies with you out of town, on the road, room to room with out having to worry about 100s of disc and a player? :)
@@ThatJunkman That's why I back up my movies with a ripper program. My experience with digital download has been that they will only play on the device you download to. Maybe the policies have changed since then. With rips, I can put the movies on my harddrives, and run them through whatever device I wish, any time I want: computers, video game consoles, or smart tvs. Like with digital downloads, I do this so that I can take my movies with me if I am in a traveling band, or have to evacuate and spend time elsewhere. Also, it prevents me from burning out my console/ computer disc drives. 🙂 The only downside I've found to rips is that every now and again, you'll have a blu-ray that has "spoof" copies of the same film on disc... those spoof files run the movie out of sequence. You're watching the movie rip file on your HDD, and then, about 15-20 minutes in, it will jump to a later point in the film, then it will jump back, then jump forward again.... it's worse than a Tarantino movie. So then you have to try and track down which file in the disc is the true file. It's rare, but it happens.
@@ThatJunkman I back the physical copies up with ripper programs...so I do get to take them on the road. You'd have seen that if you read my post entirely. Also, that means I still own the movies, unlike just paying for the license to play them with digital downloads, a license which can be revoked at the whim of the distributors. Sorry, but I don't hold to zie furher of zie World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab's philosophy of "You vill own nussing, und you vill be happy." 😁;
I got Phantom Menace on vhs the wide screen. But the video was actually pan and scan so I bought it again. So I got it twice waiting to hear I had a valuable mislabeled vhs tape. Any word if those collector film clips stuck inside have collector value?
I have the DVD versions with the original cinema release as mentioned here. I heard there was a Blu-ray that also included the original version of all 3 films. Is this true and if so was the quality better than the DVD?
Junkman this is one of your best videos 👏😎👍 I still own a few copies of star wars movies on VHS, DVD and Blu-ray. I tried to watch a new hope on Disney plus, but turned it off as soon as I heard Greedo say "Macklunkey." ...Just can't watch it, especially knowing that Han Solo shot first, not this Disney-fied bantha poodoo edition 💩💩💩 😂😂😂🤣👏
![Every Star Wars Film Release on VHS [YungJunko]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Q6EmE1UGXR4/mqdefault.jpg)
The VHS covers are so much better than the Blu-ray and DVD covers. Something still special about those to this day. Reminds me of the 80s/90s rental stores.
My uncle was always on the cutting edge of tech (a high school science teacher) and had ESB on Betamax. This was about 1984. That was the only way i got to see it until the 1990s on rental VHS
There is one you missed. Blu Ray was not the last time Star Wars was released on physical media. There are Ultra 4K versions of all 9 of the films in the Saga. They were all released last year with the release of Rise of Skywalker on DVD, Blu Ray and 4K.
I got Star Wars on CED in 1982. Watched it every day after school.
The CED version was available for purchase right away. If I recall... VHS and Beta were "rental only" till some months later.
I still remember shelling out $250 for that laserdisc definitive box set at Suncoast Video.
That 1992 VHS box set was so good. It was great to see it in widescreen letterbox format. I remember the quality being excellent, I don't know how they got VHS to look so good but they did.
I had the 1982 vhs star wars in a Hard case. I wish I still had this.
This is what I love about you man!
Topics that feel like two beer slinging brothers talking Starwars.
You hit me in the feels right there.
Keep on keeping on brother!
I remember in 84 being with friends and going across town to a video store in Garland Texas to buy Empire Strikes Back on RCA disc. It was just as exciting as the day it came out in 1980. Great memories and great video.
I hope another generation again someday can experience what Star Wars was to us.
@john ...not likely , Disney is slowly erasing the real SW in replacing it with a new modern woke version
Doubtful the original is released for the 50th anniversary in 2027. Lucas hates the original.
I don't think we had a VCR until late 1983 or early 1984. Even in the early 80s less than 15 percent of homes owned a VCR.
Hey Junkman..I must say you do your research well on all the various releases.
Your the best.
I have purchased the original trilogy so many times over the years. The first time was the 1990 VHS boxset release. Before that, I made due with copies recorded off of television. The second time I purchased it was the 1995 Remastered VHS set. A few years later, I bought both the widescreen and Pan & Scan boxsets of the Special Edition. In the lean years, where it looked like we were never going to get a DVD release, I bought a Video-CD boxset, which I ordered from Malaysia. When we finally got a DVD boxset, I bought it. Then in 2006, when Lucas got tired of all the fans bellyaching about rereleasing the original versions and he threw some crappy laserdisc-scanned bonus discs in with another Special Edition release to shut us up, I bought those as well. And then in 2011 when the "Complete" Saga bluray set was released, I of course bought that too. After that, I went 10 whole years before purchasing it again. This year, I picked up a nice bootleg bluray set of the "despecialized" original trilogy. In the highly unlikely event we ever get an official HD release of the unaltered films, I will buy that, but until then, I'm done.
I got tired of buying them after my third set. First the THX, then the special edition, both sets full screen, then bought it widescreen on DVD. Didn't fork over money again on more DVDs just to get original version on DVD though, but burned my own DVDs of those.
Lets be honest. Most of us used our VHS tapes to freeze frame on Princess Leia in Return of the Jedi wearing her Hutt slayer Outfit.
😏
I hate to correct you, Junkman, but the 2006 editions of the Trilogy did have a full screen option. The way to tell was when the cases had a blue bar on top that said full screen. The widescreen versions has the gold bar.
Only for the 2004 cuts, not the bonus discs. Those were 4:3 Letterbox and not 4:3 full frame or pan and scan. The THX master in 4:3 only exists on VHS and on Hong Kong Laserdisc with burnt in Cantonese Subtitles. I have the Hong Kong Return of the Jedi and it does look like a VHS transfer.
@@matthewgaudet4064 I'd meant the 2004 cuts, but I didn't make it clear in my initial post. Thanks for the correction.
@@tyrannozilla , the set is excellent anyway and a good companion piece to my full screen Indiana Jones trilogy set. What i don't have is prequel Pan and Scan, I need to get those as I only have the VHS for Attack of the Clones.
The sad part of all this is that for DVD and Blu-ray versions there are many deleted scenes that are included as special features but there is no way to watch the movies with those scenes intergraded. Those scenes are complete with proper special effects so I don’t understand why they just don’t have an extended version to watch. With Episode 1 there is something I’ve never heard anyone else mention. On the pod race there is a deleted scene that accidentally made it in that was not in the theatrical version. That tells me at some point the deleted material was meant to be included in film then removed.
There was another deleted scene that got put back in episode 1 which was the air taxi scene.
Fan edits exist that do that
You forgot the 4K Skywalker Saga which is definitely the last time I will buy SW on home format 😂😁 these are also the only 4K movies I own and will ever likely to own!
Its great to hear you like letterbox. I have no idea why people like missing 2/3 of the screen.I still have my Special Edition VHS too. Gold and Silver next to one another just like the best buy display in 97.
in the 90s media play added a vhs letterbox section, if it was an letterbox I didnt buy it
@@ThatJunkman you miss out on the Director's vision when you lop off half the screen.
Letterbox (black bars at top and bottom) is how you watch a Widescreen video on a Non-Widescreen display.
Pillarbox (black bars at the left and right) is how you watch a Non-Widescreen video on a Widescreen display.
I saw Star Wars To Jedi on PBS during a PBS Telethon One year!
I will always hold on to select physical media. Certain movies on DVD or Blu Ray and certain music on CD. The internet can go down for a prolong period of time. Its good to keep some entertainment in physical form in case you need it.
The 95 version was the first box set I bought. I was 18 and had my own money by this time and found it at Blockbuster video in McComb Mississippi. A day I’ll always remember.
There is an enhanced blue ray version of the original films that was called the star wars project. It was available at one time on eBay It was a fan based release. I think they are called the despecialized edition.
As in Asia VCD (Video-CD) was more popular than VHS when the Special Editions came out, there was an official VCD Boxset from Malaysia. I got mine directly from Malaysia, but they could easily be found on eBay. Back then it was the only way to (legally) watch Star Wars on a DVD player - as 99% of DVD players at the time also played VCDs.
I think I got mine at Newbury Comics and they also had Phantom Menace, but I just bought the Star Wars trilogy. Now Phantom Menace is hard to find on VCD.
When the movies were on Showtime I just popped a tape into the VCR and hit record. 🥴
Hi-Fi referred to the audio. In Hi-Fi audio was recorded in the video portion of the 1/2" tape and read by the VCR's spinning helical video head, coupled with dbx noise-reduction. It was a massive improvement in audio fidelity over the previous linear mono or stereo versions.
I remember when the Star Wars movies when they were new were 79.95 & I was hoping my Dad would get a Laser Disc or CED player because Star Wars would be less money to buy.Oh well like many I had to wait for Star Wars to be economical to buy since we got a Vhs player.
Junkman I loved your video going down memory lane! Thank You!
I had the hifi version of esb from about 1988 or so. And thenI got the 1990 box set, which was a big deal to have that.Befores that I was just watching broadcast TV versions that I recorded sometimes.
I got the 2006 trilogy with original cuts in widescreen. Man, am I glad I got them. They came with reprints of the trade back comics too.
I heard that the quick death of the Laserdisc format was the reason Lucas waited so long to release the Original Trilogy on DVD. But by the time they did release them, DVDs were already on their way out and about to be replaced by Blu-Rays.
I still have the DVDs with the original, non-SE, versions of the trilogy and those are the only copies of the films that I need.
I bought both Solo and Last Jedi on DVD. So, they haven't quite been replaced yet. ;-)
Thanks Junkman. I wondered which DVD release had the original Original.
You missed there at the end that Star Wars have been released on 4k discs. About a year ago.
Yes
I guess I'm a hold out. . I refuse to support the streaming services that control what you are able to watch. I have way to many DVDs to switch media now ...and the last SW version I bought was the 2006 DVDS that have the original version ...
Totally with you on that! Don't get rid of them.
I remember when there was no home format I saw Star Wars in 77 and didn't see it again until 1980 on TV!! that's real patience..and now I have it on Blu Ray and Disney+...had the old Wide-screen versions on VHS..and yet some of my work colleagues say Star what!!??..cheers Junkman🍺🍺🍻
here in germany we had in the late 80's/ early 90's the Silver Screen VHS Box with all three movies, the making of the first part and the first ewok movie. I still have it, together with the first DVD box and the first 6 movie BD box
When Rise of Skywalker was released on Bluray and 4K there was a really nice Best Buy exclusive 9 film Skywalker Saga set released that included all 9 films on both Bluray and 4K and with the digital download codes and a few extra discs full of special features... it's really great display piece as well. It sadly did not Include Rogue One or Solo, but I already have those on Bluray/4K sets... whenever I finally upgrade to 4K I will be all set for Star Wars... I also still have the 1990 VHS Set with all three films from when I was a kid, my dad still has the individual VHS Hi-Fi versions at his house as well as the Special Edition VHS set. I got all three of the limited edition DVD's that had both the Special Editions and Original Theatrical versions. Whenever I get my new shelving finished I will have a nice Star Wars Physical media collection. Working on getting the out of print Clone Wars Bluray sets too... the Complete Bluray set of Season 1-5 & S6/Lost Missions is really pricey, both for new and used, but I have been able to find the individual seasons used at decent prices online. Already have all of Rebels on Bluray.... even picked up the unofficial Despecialized Editions of the OT on Bluray and will probably need to go that route with season 7 of The Clone Wars, Bad Batch and The Mandalorian (and other future Disney+ Star Wars series) since those will probably never see an official physical media release... One day I may hunt down the Laser Discs, of the original trilogy but I don't feel I need them yet.
Junkman, don't forget - just last year they released the first 4K ultra HD blu rays of Star Wars too so I suppose that also can be counted as a separate release. But unless they can make significant improvements to the 4K I imagine you are correct that 2020 will be the last reissue of Star Wars in physical media.
Well that turned out to be wrong.
Got all vhs versions and the DVDs and finally and for the very last time on Blu-Ray..
We got the original Star Wars on Video Disc (90's Laser Disk was a different thing), and that was it other than renting Empire and Jedi on VHS till like, '95 with the THX version which I still have. I used to have the silver Vader Wide Screen DVD box set too, but ended up selling that when I got the complete Blu Ray Saga.
I never upgraded my Star Wars collection to Blu-ray, still have the DVD’s. I have the sequel trilogy on Blu-ray just not the original or prequel trilogies.
Sequel trilogy 😫🤮
When I was a kid my dad bought a video disk player which was a bit better than vhs quality but I had Star Wars and in 1982 and my school teacher would let my dad hook up our player on the TV at school on a special free day and the kids saw Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi, & Indiana Jones. It was a real treat to the kids and I remember girls screaming when Tohts head melted
I remember when Star Wars first hit VHS, yeah, it was priced for rental... $120. Of course, we didn't even have a VCR back then, so all I could do was gaze longingly at the VHS.
Over the years, however, I owned:
- The Original Trilogy letterbox set with the hologram in the frony of the box.
- The Star Wars Trilogy THX VHS set.
- The Star Wars Special Edition widescreen silver box trilogy.
- The Star Wars Original Trilogy on DVD in both Special and Unaltered Original Editions (where Star Wars was just Star Wars)
- The Star Wars Ep I-VI Blu ray set.
You and yours have a great holiday spec....er...I mean... season, JunkMan. 🙂
Crazy what people were willing to accept just to be able to see the film. I have the Fox rental tape the quality is terrible.
@@matthewgaudet4064 You have a real piece of history there, then. 🙂
I'm pretty sure I had the 1995 vhs set, and the special edition widescreen in vhs. and the 2004 widescreen DVD box set.
I bought Return of the Jedi on VHS when it first came out. Paid 80 bucks for it. I had to order it special from my local video store. The guy behind the counter looked at me like I had two heads when I told him I wanted to BUY it.
Hey Junkman you forgot to mention the 4k blu ray releases from last year.
I have the laser disc version , and its the only version i know of that show the original way I saw it in the theaters, where you can see the actual 'mat' for the tie fighters fling and how corny the special effects were.
i love it.
Don't hold me to this, but on those double format releases from the mid 2000s the non special edition versions were from the original 35mm cuts which ruffled some feathers since people were hoping for at least laser disc level remastering. I think to this day, the original cut of the OG trilogy has never been released remastered on the home market.
I think my old daycare had a super 8 version, I remember watching a shorten death Star rescue then goes straight to the award ceremony then repeats. Only thing was it was on a TV and not a projector
I have the laserdiscs of the trilogy, that I bought recently on Ebay. Someday I'll buy a working machine to play them.
I remember this
Junkman you never disappoint bro you always bring us all a great video/vlog. I don't remember some of the ways Star Wars was released on video. Awesome news I always learn something about my favorite movies Star Wars. Thank you again my friend and have a great day.
5:32 - The widescreen version of Empire Strikes Back of this version has a different Luke Skywalker voice dub when Artoo falls into the swamp. Luke shouts 'Artoo, I need you!' which is not heard in other versions of the film at all. Also Empire Strikes Back Super 8 film of Empire Strikes Back has voice dubs of different mixes of Ben's and Emperor's voice all with no eco, Bespin security's warnings to the falcon are a different vvoice and dialogue which Han cuts them off mid sentence like in the novel instead of the final movie. C-3PO says to R2 as he is dragged across the falcon ''Oh yes it is definately good to be back together' instead of 'I thought that hairy beast was going to be the end of me'
Minus the laserdisc, my brother has all those, letterbox and standard. Vhs to blueray
7:40 Nah, while mostly the original film, this version had the "A New Hope" retitling on it, just like the laserdisc it was ripped from. All home releases have had it, as it was added before Empire, well before the first home tape releases. Which is why the Despecialized versions are a godsend.
The dvd released as extra does not have the New Hope subtitle. And 1981 it was added to the films re-release. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changes_in_Star_Wars_re-releases
@@ThatJunkman 10000 apologies good sir. I have been wrong in my thinking for dozens of years it appears. And in my poor memory, I had the re-release as something in 1979 to drum up interest in Empire, not in 1981..
Honestly I'm shocked that the crawl survived tinkering that long.
@@ThatJunkman I have Sep 11 1990 version, but it is not have the A New Hope text on film. Also which was the last home release before the New Hope text?
@@ralphles21 All home video releases had the new hope in the text crawl. The only one that didn't was from the bonus disc from the 2006 limited edition dvd release. You might be thinking of the packaging.
Harmy and Team Negative1. Period. 'Nuff said.
No mention of the 4K discs??
don't hold me to this but I was just in wal mart the other day and seen another release of SW u might want double check I may be wrong
When the Special Editions were released on VHS, i was all about it! I loved watching them in the theater in 1997 too. I grew up watching those old hi-fi 80s tapes, and then the black laserdisk boxed set. For the time, they had incredible sound, but they were 3 disks each! Now as a 40-something, I choose to watch only Project 4k77-83. I have no desire to see the Special Editions ever again. There's just too much cgi that feels way out of place in movies that were made in the late 70s, early 80s.
Hey junk man what up love your videos
Me too My Friend, I got them all🤪
Between 1986 & 1989 I had either the tape to tape rental bootleg or off air editions.
Come on Junkman, gotta get the 4K VERSIONS!?!? JK great video!!👍👍
I'd love to get the 2000 laserdisc set. Had to settle for the 1997 because it was 60 bucks not the hundred and ten dollars they want for the reissue.
I have the VHS covers, the original covers and of course the 6 movie set on blu-ray my favorite why is a good question?
I have to say, I still prefer the physical copies...but I also back them up to hard drive. I don't get the "digital download".
Oh... and don't forget, JunkMan, they have since been released to 4K.🙂
dont get download? Like you dont get that you can take all of your movies with you out of town, on the road, room to room with out having to worry about 100s of disc and a player? :)
@@ThatJunkman That's why I back up my movies with a ripper program. My experience with digital download has been that they will only play on the device you download to. Maybe the policies have changed since then.
With rips, I can put the movies on my harddrives, and run them through whatever device I wish, any time I want: computers, video game consoles, or smart tvs. Like with digital downloads, I do this so that I can take my movies with me if I am in a traveling band, or have to evacuate and spend time elsewhere. Also, it prevents me from burning out my console/ computer disc drives. 🙂
The only downside I've found to rips is that every now and again, you'll have a blu-ray that has "spoof" copies of the same film on disc... those spoof files run the movie out of sequence. You're watching the movie rip file on your HDD, and then, about 15-20 minutes in, it will jump to a later point in the film, then it will jump back, then jump forward again.... it's worse than a Tarantino movie. So then you have to try and track down which file in the disc is the true file. It's rare, but it happens.
@@ThatJunkman LOL
@@martok2112 You don't download digital copies you stream them from your phone, tablet, or tv.
@@ThatJunkman I back the physical copies up with ripper programs...so I do get to take them on the road. You'd have seen that if you read my post entirely. Also, that means I still own the movies, unlike just paying for the license to play them with digital downloads, a license which can be revoked at the whim of the distributors. Sorry, but I don't hold to zie furher of zie World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab's philosophy of "You vill own nussing, und you vill be happy." 😁;
We have star wars at home (star wars at home)
I got Phantom Menace on vhs the wide screen. But the video was actually pan and scan so I bought it again. So I got it twice waiting to hear I had a valuable mislabeled vhs tape. Any word if those collector film clips stuck inside have collector value?
I have the DVD versions with the original cinema release as mentioned here. I heard there was a Blu-ray that also included the original version of all 3 films. Is this true and if so was the quality better than the DVD?
no not true
Yeah but it's not official.
Junkman this is one of your best videos 👏😎👍 I still own a few copies of star wars movies on VHS, DVD and Blu-ray. I tried to watch a new hope on Disney plus, but turned it off as soon as I heard Greedo say "Macklunkey." ...Just can't watch it, especially knowing that Han Solo shot first, not this Disney-fied bantha poodoo edition 💩💩💩
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Imagine paying $80 for a VHS movie. 🤪
I thought the ones with the laser disc copies were a myth what's the exact year and name Junkman I need them I needs em bad
They are pricey now on the secondary market
@@ThatJunkman how pricey?
I have Star Wars on super 8 I don’t know if it has sound or not or color or not I’ve never seen it
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