January 26, 2004
A New Hope
For the first time in about four years I'm watching the original Star Wars. I used to have a copy recorded off the TV on an old betamax tape, but the player packed up years ago. I then bought the original box set when it came out. A few years later, I bought the special edition box set.
I'd have watched them more recently, but for the last few years since my lodgers moved out I haven't had a video recorder. I've not felt like buying one as I don't watch enough TV to want to record stuff, and VCRs are totally inferior to DVD players for viewing.
Thanks to the wonders of BitTorrent, I managed to download A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi special editions. It's not DVD quality, but it's quite acceptable played through the laptop onto the TV. Happy memories! I used to know almost every line in A New Hope. I also used to think the Fox fanfare (that plays over the fox logo with the searchlights) was part of the Star Wars soundtrack. To this day, whenever I hear it, I half expect the opening bars of the Star Wars theme to kick in right after.
It will be nice when I can legitimately own digital copies of the original three films. I've already bought Episode 1 and Episode 2 on DVD. I have it on good authority that 4, 5 and 6 will come out on DVD at the end of this year, but I'll believe it when I see it ...
Posted by savs at January 26, 2004 8:45 PM