HARMY PROUDLY PRESENTS
RETURN OF THE JEDI - DESPECIALIZED EDITION REMASTERED (v2.5)
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This is a reconstruction of the 1983 theatrical version of Return of the Jedi. The original shots
were painstakingly restored using various sources (listed below) and the film received an extensive
shot by shot colour correction based on a fade free 1983 LPP Print. ROTJ v2.5 is pretty much
completely despecialized, apart from a couple of wipes, which were recomposited optically in 1997
and look nearly identical to the originals, so for all intents and purposes this is the original
version.
The remastered version (v2.5) represents a significant improvement in picture quality over the
earlier 1.0 version due to the use of better encoding and higher quality sources and replacing many
of the despecialized shots with higher quality ones.
Version v2.0 was only a limited release workprint.
A gallery showing all the changes can be found here:
http:// *** link removed *** / uKAA
The MKV version contains a large number of audio tracks, including the latest versions of the
preservations of the original audio mixes in DTS-HD MA, three different commentary tracks, an
isolated score and dubbing tracks in 13 different languages.
More information can be found here:
originaltrilogy.com/topic/id/12905
http:// *** link removed *** /
youtube.com/HarmyDespecialized
VIDEO SOURCES:
1) Star Wars Episode VI Return of the Jedi Official Blu-Ray (2011)
2) LPP 35mm print scans (Team Negative 1 and Poita)
3) Schorman's HDTV Preservation - Return of the Jedi (2004 DVD version)
4) RETURN OF THE JEDI 2006 Bonus DVD (sourced from the 1993 Definitive Edition Laser Disc Master -
upscaled by Dark Jedi)
5) RETURN OF THE PUG (1983 16mm print transfer)
6) Custom mattes
Technical Specifications:
CONTAINER: MKV
SIZE: 17.8 GB
VIDEO: 1280x720p H264 23.976 fps
AUDIO: (Special thanks to hairy_hen, Schorman, CatBus and Pitrek)
TRACK 1) 5.1 DTS-HD-MA [English] (1983 mix)
TRACK 2) 2.0 DTS-HD-MA [English] (1983 mix)
TRACK 3) 2.0 Dolby Digital [English] (1993 Laserdisc mix)
TRACK 4) 2.0 Dolby Digital [German] (1983 dub reconstruction)
TRACK 5) 2.0 Dolby Digital [French] (1983 dub)
TRACK 6) 2.0 Dolby Digital [Spanish] (1983 Castilian dub)
TRACK 7) 1.0 Dolby Digital [Spanish] (1983 American Spanish dub)
TRACK 8) 1.0 Dolby Digital [Portuguese] (1980s Brazilian dub)
TRACK 9) 2.0 Dolby Digital [Japanese] (1983 dub)
TRACK 10) 2.0 Dolby Digital [Italian] (1983 dub)
TRACK 11) 2.0 Dolby Digital [Polish] (1995 Voiceover)
TRACK 12) 2.0 Dolby Digital [Czech] (1992 dub)
TRACK 13) 2.0 Dolby Digital [Slovak] (1997 dub)
TRACK 14) 2.0 Dolby Digital [Hungarian] (1983 dub)
TRACK 15) 2.0 Dolby Digital [Russian] (2004 dub)
TRACK 16) 2.0 Dolby Digital [Russian] (1980s Voiceover)
TRACK 17) 2.0 Dolby Digital [Ukrainian] (2004 Voiceover)
TRACK 18) 2.0 Dolby Digital [English] (1993 LD Audio Commentary - silence filled with 1993 LD
TRACK 19) 2.0 Dolby Digital [English] (2004 DVD Audio Commentary - recut to fit this release)
TRACK 20) 2.0 Dolby Digital [English] (2011 BD Archival Interviews Audio Commentary - recut
to fit this release)
TRACK 21) 2.0 Dolby Digital [Music] (Isolated Score)
SUBTITLES: (Special thanks to CatBus)
LANGUAGES INCLUDED
English Brazilian Portuguese Persian/Farsi Swedish
English SDH European Portuguese Polish Bulgarian
Mandarin/Simplified German Thai Danish
Mandarin/Traditional Indonesian Ukrainian Hebrew
Cantonese Malay Romanian Finnish
American Spanish Japanese Dutch Norwegian
Castilian Spanish Italian Croatian Slovenian
French Korean Hungarian Estonian
Arabic Vietnamese Greek Icelandic
Russian Turkish Czech
All subtitles are from "Project Threepio v9.0"
More info here:
http:// *** link removed *** / 794/
The Project Threepio subtitle folder also includes all the information on using the subtitles.
To verify that your file has downloaded correctly, you can use the included MD5 and SHA Checksum
Utility.
Just click "Browse" in the utility and load the MKV file and when your checksums are generated,
you can use these checksums to verify the intergrity of your download:
MD5: BB61CFE99632010CDD13BA8F5CEFD35A
SHA1: B4F94227497D4C983F90CF03ED7BC084A1CA51F1