The Empire Strikes Back Special Edition, VCD, VideoCD 2.0, China 1997
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Bootleg VCD of the 1997 special edition version of The Empire Strikes Back. The image is in widescreen with yellow Chinese subtitles in the lower letterbox band. The files on the discs are dated Dec. 1997, so that informs the approximate release year of this set.
VideoCD 2.0 refers to the "company" releasing these. Their logo is on the menu screen of the discs, and on the slipcases, claiming "The latest high-tech 2.0 compression" (according to Google Translate). I had originally thought these were rips of the official VCD releases from Hong Kong, but they turned out to be ports of the US Special Edition Laserdisc box set, complete with the Dolby Digital and THX Laserdisc trailers at the beginning. As you can see from the final screenshot below, they even left a frame of the Laserdisc OSD tray open message at the end of the capturing process. These came in paper sleeves, designed to fit round a regular CD jewel case. You had to supply the jewel case yourself. |
VideoCD 2.0 logo
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20th. Century Fox Home Ent. logo
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Dolby Digital "Canyon" trailer
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THX Cimarron Laserdisc trailer
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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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VideoCD 2.0 logo (Beginning of Side 2)
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Matte painting Special Ed.
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Duel
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Falcon dish in frame
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End credits
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Laserdisc tray Open OSD
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