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Return of the Jedi Special Edition, DVD, Bootleg, "Look" version, China 2000
This disc does not have a menu of any kind. Before the movie starts, the Dolby Digital "Canyon" trailer is played, then the "Look" intro. The movie is letterboxed widescreen, but not anamorphically enhanced. The Chinese subtitles are burnt-in and contained within the lower letterbox band. For the parts with alien subtitled languages, the Chinese subtitles are just superimposed over the English subs. The only audio on the disc is a Dolby Digital 5.1 track, but I can't confirm that it is a bit-for-bit rip from the Laserdisc source.
Apart from the "Formatted to fit your screen" notice on the back, this cover actually gets most of its facts straight. You'll note that "FIT" has been misinterpreted as "HT" by Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Like other Chinese bootlegs I've seen, this also has an ISRC (International Standard Recording Code) number, which is the international identification system for sound recordings and music video recordings. I'm sure it's meant to lend an air of authenicity to the release.
The "Look" versions (They have a logo for something called "Look" at the beginning - see below) were among the first bootlegs that started to appear in 2000. The 1997 US laserdiscs of the special editions, the High-end video format of the day, were used to source these DVDs. As such, they were superior to VHS but not comparable to a properly mastered DVD.
Dolby Digital "Canyon" trailer
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Look intro
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Fox fanfare
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A long time ago...
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Title card
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Opening crawl
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Star Destroyer
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Jedi rocks
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Jabba subtitles
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Obi Wan
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Shuttle landing
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Emperor's slug
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Duel
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Praxis effect
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Coruscant celebration
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End credits
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