Disc
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The Empire Strikes Back, DVD, Bootleg, China 2001
On the Empire Strikes Back disc, the film itself is in widescreen, without anamorphic enhancement. The audio track is encoded as Dolby Digital 5.1, but is sourced from the Laserdisc's two-channel matrixed PCM soundtrack, so this is not true 5.1 surround sound. The film comes with optional subtitles in English, Chinese, Malay and Indonesian.
The disc starts with the Dolby Digital "Egypt" trailer before you're taken to the main menu. The menu has an authoring error, so when you press "Play movie" you get the Empire theatrical trailer instead. To start the movie you have to go to the chapter menu and select chapter 1. The Language menu lets you choose from four sets of subtitles, English, Chinese, Malay and Indonesian. Pressing the DCS (Digital Cinema Surround) logo brings up a minute-long surround sound demo. The supplements include an interview with sound designer Ben Burtt, a short featurette on the stop-motion animation of the AT-ATs, a storyboard comparison of the asteroid chase, and a two-minute early theatrical trailer for Empire with unfinished saber effects.
A new set of bootleg DVDs for the original Star Wars films started showing up on eBay in 2001. (The files are dated March 2001.) These bootlegs were sourced from the 1993 THX Laserdisc box set from the USA, meaning these were the original theatrical versions of the movies. They also included some of the supplemental material from that Laserdisc set. Still, they were considered inferior and a step backwards compared to the quality of previous bootlegs.
Dolby Digital trailer before main menu
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Main menu
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Chapter index menu (sample)
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Language selection menu
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Bonus material menu
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"Interview with Ben Burtt"
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"Interview with Ben Burtt"
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"How Walkers Walk"
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"Flight through the asteroids"
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"Trailer"
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Trailer (No Saber VFX)
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Trailer
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Surround sound demo
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Fox fanfare
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Title card
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Opening crawl
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Binoculars
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Binoculars
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On Dagobah
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Alert all commands
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Matte painting
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Duel
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Falcon dish in frame
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End credits
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End credits
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