Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) [1425-85]

Vader: "Make ready to land our troops beyond their energy field, then deploy the fleet so that nothing gets off the system. You are in command now, Admiral Piett".

Now playing THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980) DOLBY STEREO LUCASFILM LTD THX SOUND SYSTEM.

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More camera screen captures to come over the next few hours as this film is still far, far too awesome!

The levels at first are kinder softer sounding when looking at the CP500 Dolby levels but this son of b**ch awesome DOLBY mix soon kicks in with some high levels.

Playback is in DOLBY STEREO on the DOLBY CP500 awesome!! The seats are vibrating with AT-AT footfalls and occasional laser bolts being fired.





Short video EMPIRE in action on DOLBY CP500
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No reported Laser rot issues found.

I'm going to give THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK LD a fair and square for picture and Dolby Stereo mix

It's true. This is a really good disc.

Its wicked its dirty its gritty and that's the way I like it. DNR EE free.

Chapter 6, time 7m. 04s "You're lucky you don't taste very good". YESSS!! I don't know what line was used in that dreadful god awful bluray as I have long, time ago far, far away since forgotten about it...

now i have to watch this again.
i think i last saw it around 2007

Yeah I saw you're comment on database. So its the other pressing that has the Chase Stereo sound check. I think my JEDI has that so I must have different pressings of STAR WARS and EMPIRE and I'm not grumbling I just noticed it at the end of the film and no CAV sides unlike JEDI and I guess the other STAR WARS EMPIRE pressings have a CAV side? I'll have to have look, but I do like, these pressing, rein-o.

Also the gate-folder covers are super cool.

i don't think i posted anything about audio, but i do see that someone else posted the check surrounds at the end.
but they should be the same, both CBS and CBS/FOX film and audio, or the copies i had were the same audio and video.

This looks fantastic. I need one.

I still have about another 50 pictures and I have to take some more I had too much time on my hands night before last. I didn't watch the films totally one after the other, I had a small catnap I think and then watched EMPIRE around I think 8pm? and didn't finish until gone past 12am as I had to load the pictures up and play back the last few mins of the Laserdisc so it all added up near 4 hours over a 2 hour film.

Yes get it is worth it and I can be far more fussy than any die hard 1080p geek out there and this is standard low definition but the DOLBY STEREO mix beats the bluray into the dust as the silly extra sound effects and voice overs has ruined it all and these earlier Laserdiscs are as near close than we can dream of.

Jedi has some few dialouge panning on the early Laserdisc editions as heard as I remember in the cinema but wasn't at the time a listener (not for a few more years). But its all shot-away with the re-mix on CAV THX right though to the bluray nothing has changed much Han Solo no longer has his voice panned to stage right. "Luke, Luke" its all centred and doesn't make any scene when he off to right and the voice in the centre was Skywalker Sound at the time?

THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK direct screen captures from first widescreen letterbox edition.

Captures recoded from Pioneer Laserdisc DVL-909 to Yamada DVR-9300HX and then capture from pc as (print-screen) black boarders top and bottom have been cropped off.

Camera capture off the Sony CRT 22" with noticeable over-scan


The frame is not spot as I can't find the frame advance on the pc DVD player so I have to play and purse and hope I get near as possible.

Direct capture from the Laserdisc will look good on the LCD video projector with its entire width.