HARMY PROUDLY PRESENTS


                  THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK - DESPECIALIZED EDITION REMASTERED (v2.0)

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This is a reconstruction of the 1980 theatrical version of The Empire Strikes Back. The original shots were painstakingly restored using various sources (listed below) and the film received an extensive shot by shot colour correction.

The remastered version (v2.0) represents a significant improvement in picture quality over the earlier 1.0 version
due to the use of better encoding and higher quality sources and replacing many of the despecialized shots with
higher quality ones.

A gallery showing all the changes can be found here:

https://plus.google.com/u/1/photos/109609428403596349302/albums/6044645069501365185

The MKV version contains a large number of audio tracks, including the latest versions of the preservations
of the original audio mixes in DTS-HD MA, three different commentary tracks, an isolated score and dubbing
tracks in 13 different languages.

More information can be found here:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Harmys-THE-EMPIRE-STRIKES-BACK-Despecialized-Edition-HD/topic/12511/


VIDEO SOURCES:

1) STAR WARS Episode V The Empire Strikes Back Official Blu-Ray 2011

2) STAR WARS Episode V The Empire Strikes Back 2006 Bonus DVD
  (sourced from the 1993 Definitive Edition Laser Disc Master - upscale by Mattman Omega)

3) Adywan's THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK 1997 Special Edition Reconstruction 1080p MKV (HDTV source)

4) The Empire Strikes Back 1997 Special Edition ("TB" DTV capture)

5) Team Negative1 35mm print scan

6) Custom mattes, 35mm film cell scans etc.

7) Adywan's THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK 1980 Theatrical Reconstruction NTSC DVD

8) Puggo Strikes Back (16mm print transfer)


Technical Specifications:
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CONTAINER: MKV


SIZE: 19.7 GB


VIDEO: 1280x720p H264 23.976 fps


AUDIO: Special thanks to hairy_hen, Schorman, ABC, Puggo and Mavimao


TRACK  1) 5.1   DTS-HD-MA   [English]        (1980 mix)

TRACK  2) 2.0   DTS-HD-MA   [English]        (1980 mix)

TRACK  3) 1.0   DTS-HD-MA   [English]        (1980 16mm mono mix)

TRACK  4) 2.0 Dolby Digital [English]        (1993 Laserdisc mix)

TRACK  5) 2.0 Dolby Digital [German]         (1980 dub)

TRACK  6) 2.0 Dolby Digital [French]         (1980 dub)

TRACK  7) 2.0 Dolby Digital [Spanish]        (1980 Castilian dub)

TRACK  8) 1.0 Dolby Digital [Spanish]        (1980 American Spanish dub)

TRACK  9) 1.0 Dolby Digital [Portuguese]     (1980s Brazilian dub)

TRACK 10) 2.0 Dolby Digital [Japanese]       (1980 dub)

TRACK 11) 2.0 Dolby Digital [Italian]        (1980 dub)

TRACK 12) 2.0 Dolby Digital [Polish]         (1995 Voiceover)

TRACK 13) 2.0 Dolby Digital [Czech]          (1992 dub)

TRACK 14) 2.0 Dolby Digital [Hungarian]      (1982 dub)

TRACK 15) 2.0 Dolby Digital [Slovak]         (1997 dub)

TRACK 16) 2.0 Dolby Digital [Russian]        (1989 dub)

TRACK 17) 2.0 Dolby Digital [Russian]        (1980s Voiceover)

TRACK 18) 2.0 Dolby Digital [Ukrainian]      (2004 Voiceover)

TRACK 19) 2.0 Dolby Digital [English]        (1993 LD Audio Commentary - silence filled with 1993 LD 2.0)

TRACK 20) 2.0 Dolby Digital [English]        (2004 DVD Audio Commentary - recut to fit this release)

TRACK 21) 2.0 Dolby Digital [English]        (2011 BD Archival Interviews Audio Commentary - recut to fit this release)

TRACK 22) 2.0 Dolby Digital [Isolated Score] (by ABC)


SUBTITLES: (Project Threepio v8.0) Special thanks to CatBus


Project Threepio is a collection of subtitles for the Star Wars Original
Unaltered Trilogy, synced to the GOUT (the 2006 DVD Bonus Disc) for
compatibility with many popular preservations.


                          LANGUAGES INCLUDED

     English                 Brazilian Portuguese  Polish     Swedish
     English SDH             European Portuguese   Ukrainian  Bulgarian
     Mandarin (Simplified)   Indonesian            Romanian   Finnish
     Mandarin (Traditional)  Japanese              Croatian   Danish
     Cantonese               French                Thai       Hebrew
     American Spanish        German                Dutch      Norwegian
     Castilian Spanish       Turkish               Hungarian  Slovenian
     Arabic                  Korean                Czech      Icelandic
     Russian                 Italian               Greek

Project Threepio is always looking for improved translations and new languages!

If you'd like to help, please visit the Project Threepio subtitle discussion thread to offer your assistance,
and to make sure we still need help with your language. If you would like to share information about any
interesting foreign audio options, visit this international dubbing discussion thread instead.

Project Threepio is looking for:

Improvements and corrections for existing translations in any languageIf you can read and write Arabic script,
you can help, even if your knowledge of the Arabic language is limited.
Addition of entirely new languages (entire trilogy, please!), such as:

        Afrikaans
        Albanian
        Amharic
        Armenian
        Azerbaijani
        Basque
        Bengali
        Catalan
        Estonian
        Farsi
        Georgian
        Hausa
        Hindi
        Kurdish
        Latvian
        Lithuanian
        Swahili
        Tamil
        Urdu
        Vietnamese
        Xhosa
        Zulu
        ...any other language!

More info here:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Project-Threepio-Star-Wars-OOT-subtitles/topic/13794/

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If you want to watch with subtitles, take your chosen subtitle .srt file from the

"Subtitles - Project Threepio" folder, copy it to the folder with the .mkv file and

rename the .srt file to the same name as the .mkv file, while keeping the .srt extension.


So for example, if you wanted to watch with Bulgarian subtitles, you would copy the file

"ESB-bg-full.srt" from the "Subtitles - Project Threepio" folder to the folder with the

"The.Empire.Strikes.Back.Despecialized.Edition.v2.0.mkv" file and rename the file to

"The.Empire.Strikes.Back.Despecialized.Edition.v2.0.srt".

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