CED VideoDisc and Player Discussion

[canadatopescorts]

Stars Wars was issued on CED as 24543-11309 ( NTSC) and 24543-38381 ( PAL ). The entire movie is on one Videodisc and the running time listed on the caddy cover is 118 mins.

The first trail mastering for this title was a 2 disc set. This was 24534-07005. The running time on disc one was S1, 41 mins and S2, 53 mins and for the second disc S3, 28 mins. This is a total of 122 mins.

A small production run was made of the 2 disc set and samples in plain caddies were reviewed by Fox/Lucas films and RCA marketing. It was decided to edit the movie and sell it as a single disc.

What scenes were removed from the original movie ? The writer has one of the S3 discs.

[kfbkfb]

They use "time compression", no scenes are removed (the LaserDisc is the same way).

I don't know how advanced time compression technology was in the early 1980s, I've never compared my CED (and LaserDisc) of Star Wars with the DVD of the original 1977 version (not time compressed).


Kirk Bayne

[jsdspif]

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[Jesse Skeen]

I've never seen any Fox titles on PAL CED. I do have the early PAL laserdisc of Star Wars but it has rotted so much my player won't even read it. PAL CEDs ran longer and would have been able to fit this movie on one disc with no time-compression.
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[Dude111]

CED is the only place these movies were not ruined!!

On VHS and BETA they were all digitally mastered!! (Well the first one you can find rental copies that ARE NOT but the other two you cannot!! (Ya have to find them from someone whose recorded them from analogue TV if you want the original analog movies)