I have to admit that i have always liked the special editions of the original trilogy, with a few minor niggles of course, so i was so excited when the 2004 DVD release was announced. I waited in line at midnight, got my box set and raced home to watch them.

Super fan Adywan is one of the most shining examples and he has just finished work on the long-awaited The Empire Strikes Back: Revisited, a painstaking fan edit that is intended to present fans.

Switched on my cinema system (luckily the neighbours were away), loaded the DVD and prepared to be blown away. Then the film started and my face dropped. What the hell have they done to the surround mix?

OMG Luke's saber is green & Darth's is pink. I thought these editions would have been better than my old VHS ones. Yes the picture quality is far superior but the new faults just plain ruined them for me. So I decided that the original trilogy DVD's need fixing but just never got round to doing it until i was amazed by the ADigitalMan/ Darth Editous Hybrid DVD. I loved it so much i wanted to make my own At the moment its taking longer than i had anticipated, but i thought i would let you all know what changes to expect when it is finished. Some of the effects enhancements have been done to match closer to the prequel trilogy. For the source i have used the 2004 PAL Retail DVD and for some sequences the HDTV 1080p x264 release ( if only this had come out when i first started this release).

Fixed so far: VIDEO 1 - Star Wars Logo: originally it receded way too quickly so this has been slowed down to match the speed in the rest of the saga. 2 - The crawl appears slightly earlier now, as it did pre ANH, so it appears at the correct music cue that WilliamsΓ??

Intended, and how I remember it. 3 - As the camera pans down to Tatooine you now see the 3 moons instead of just 2 4 - Tatooine now rotates slightly as the ships fly overhead 5 - Re-coloured all lasers 6 - Removed the horrible blue hazing as the stardestroyers engine come into view 7 - Changed the explosion as the Tantive IV is hit to remove a lot of the smoke. 8 - Added a jerk to the motion of the Tantive IV as it is hit 9 - Speeded up the star field in that shot so the Tantive IV seems to be moving as fast as it did in previous shots. 10 - Colour correction of the whole film to remove the blue tint. The Tantive IVΓ??s walls are now white. 11 - Re-coloured R2Γ??s dome lights throughout the movie so they match closer to the rest of the saga. The front light now blinks from red to blue.

12 - Re-edited the Tantive IV corridor battle to fix continuity issues where troopers die more than once. 13- Added blaster flashes to all blasters that have them missing as they fire. 14 - Added blast flashes to the troopers where they are hit 15 - Corrected issues where the blasters flash as if they were fired on set but no laser bolts were present. Added the lasers to fix this throughout.

16 - Fixed the jump cut where 3PO & R2 cross the corridor on the Tantive IV & the doorway explodes. 17 - When Vader enters the Tantive IV a Stormtrooper lets go of the head of a dead trooper but that you can see that the actor slowly lowers his head.

This has been fixed and the troopers head now drops at speed more like a dead body. 18 - Added blinking lights to VaderΓ??s chest plate 19 - VaderΓ??s eyes re-coloured to remove the red tint. Metro 2033 benchmark download. 20 - When 3PO is looking for R2 a trooper falls to the floor behind him as if he has been shot but there is no laser fire. Added some lasers & a flash as the trooper is hit. 21 - Smoothed / fixed the jump cut as R2 extends his third leg and heads for 3PO & the one where he leaves 3PO 22 - Fixed the error in the scene where Vader is strangling Antilles the trooper in the background changes position in one shot.

Originally his legs are closed and his blaster is in a totally different position. 23 - Fixed an FX issue when Leia is hit by the stun blaster the glow effect is missing on part of her dress.

24 - In the scene where R2 presses the button to open the pod door you now see his arm retract 25 - Re-coloured the interior of the escape pod to blue due to continuity issues in this scene. 26 - As the escape pod blasts off it now begins to rotate as it does in the rest of the shots 27 - When the imperial commander says Γ??hold your fireΓ?? The trajectory of the escape pod has been changed so it is heading downwards and away from the ship instead or just heading straight which caused a continuity error in the next shot as we see the underbelly of the stardestroyer, which means it was heading downwards. 28 - Changed the stars & stardestroyer view from inside the pod so the ship & stars now recede at different rates 29 - You now see the escape pod enter the atmosphere of Tatooine. 30 - Every FX shot has been either touched up or redone in some form or another, but too many to mention every one. 31 - On Tatooine the escape pod canopy has been re-coloured to remove the odd blue colour 32 - In the some scenes the sky has been changed to match other shots. 33 - Added the sandcrawler from the OUT to replace the static shots when 3P0 thinks he is rescued 34 - Completely new canyon wipe so the rocky surroundings that R2 travels through matches closer to what Tatooine looks like in the PT.