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Star Wars Episode I, DVD, "Digital Cinema Sound" Bootleg, China 2001
The disc is single-layered and features a non-anamorphic widescreen image. While the disc's audio is encoded in Dolby Digital 5.1, the quality doesn't bear that out. There are English, Chinese and Malay subtitles available. The alien languages do not have any on-screen subtitles, and the English tracks don't translate them either, so you'll have to brush up on your Huttese.
On starting up the disc you get the Dolby Digital "Water" trailer before it proceeds to the main menu. The menu is an interesting one. It starts out as a fuzzy, blurry clip of the Qui-Gon and Maul duel in the desert, and, as their sabres clash, the screen shatters into the actual menu screen with the Star Wars theme playing underneath. Pressing the Digital Cinema Sound logo on the setup menu gives you a short surround sound demo. The film starts automatically after the menu has cycled through (takes 1 min. 20 seconds.)
This is the original theatrical version of Episode I, not available on DVD officialy. Hoping this was ripped from the excellent Japanese Laserdisc I was sorely disappointed. The source seems to be a widescreen VHS tape, most likely the US Widescreen Video Collector's Edition. The files are dated Jan. 2001, so this preceeds the release of the official DVD.
Dolby Digital trailer
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Main menu
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Main menu
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Main menu
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Chapter menu
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Setup menu
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Surround Sound demo
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Fox fanfare
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Title card
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Crawl
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Dioxis!
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Careful, Sebulba (No subs)
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Senate cameos
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No bridge
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Puppet Yoda
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End credits
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