Product Details

• Actors: Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill
• Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, THX, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 6
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• DVD Release Date: November 4, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (107 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001EN71DG
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #71 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Disc 1: Star Wars: A New Hope WS Disc 1 Disc 2: Star Wars: A New Hope WS Disc 2 Disc 3: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back WS Disc 1 Disc 4: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back WS Disc 2 Disc 5: Star Wars: Return of the Jedi WS Disc 1 Disc 6: Star Wars: Return of the Jedi WS Disc 2

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

264 of 279 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A re-release, but worth picking up if you don't already have the limited editions., September 1, 2008

By	Danny "Alan Smithee" (South Philly) - See all my reviews

What you'll get here are the 2-disc limited editions of the original trilogy in a handy-dandy box. What are the limited editions? Two disc packages that contain the recent special editions and a "bonus disc" for each film that contains the respective originals. And by originals, I mean the complete un-altered films the way audiences saw them back in 1977, 1980 and 1983. Even the added-in-'81 "A New Hope" in the title crawl of the first film is no longer there. It is simply STAR WARS. Simply put: these are the versions audiences (who were born before the 90s) fell in love with. These are the versions that made Star Wars a phenomenon. The versions that are worth a damn. Does anyone seriously know ANYBODY who prefers the special editions to the originals?

Unfortunately, these are still the same old non-anamorphic transfers. They look great (and are light years better than my fullscreen VHS tapes), but how much effort does it take to enhance these films for widescreen televisions? It's not messing with the legacy or "raping childhoods." It's simply updating the format for 2008. Even two years ago, when these editions were first released, letterbox was outdated. Get with the program, Georgie. These are not simply programs on a bonus disc. They're the films that made you a trillionaire. And they're the films everybody who buys this set wants.

Also unfortunate is that they're not including the bonus disc from the 2004 set of the special editions. However, if I had to choose between that set and this one, I'd go with this one all the way. Special features are nice, but it's the movies that count. I'd rather have bare-bones editions of the original trilogy than all the bells and whistles of the special edtions.

83 of 89 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Couldn't really ask for much more., November 5, 2008

By	Neil Edward Mullen "Nemolian" (Ripon, WI USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I see this box set is getting a lot of bad reviews so I thought I'd chime in.

Most people giving it one star are just mad that there is another boxset release. This doesn't bother me at all. I never bought the other boxsets because of all the CG that was added, those aren't the movies I love.

People are also upset that the originals aren't in anamorphic widescreen and are poor transfers. Yeah an anamorphic version would have been nice and maybe they could have been retransfered, but these movies look a lot better than my old VHS set. Most likely these movies look better now than they did in the crappy theatar I saw them in.

In conclusion, this is a very affordable way to get all the original versions of the original trilogy, plus you get all the touched up versions.

42 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars VHS quality on the original versions, February 9, 2009

By	outlawz "outlawz" (nyc) - See all my reviews

ok, despite all the negative reviews, i decided to purchase this item anyway, as the enhanced versions are unbearable for me to watch. the good news is that george lucas decided to release a dvd version of the original versions that everyone likes but the bad bad news is that it is not true widescreen (as many reviews here have stated) and the quality is VHS at best. i guess george's goal is to get fans to buy at least 10 versions of star wars. original star wars, on DVD, high quality transfer...is that too much to ask for???