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Thanks for the assist. Now that I'm on my PC, I'm going to add a link to your extremely helpful video in the description of this one also.

@@ChronoRadio Most excellent! Thanks!

I did way too much mental math to make sure I wasn't just losing my mind on that point.

Oooh, can I call myself a "social media influencer" now? My students would get a kick out of that until they figure out I'm just a Star Wars home video nerd.

The aspect ratios are fine on those, though ROTJ's picture is a little higher in the frame than on most releases.

Shouldn't that be around the same time anyway? Or at least close enough to provide a general sense of pressing timing?

Yes and no stampers were reused for reorders. We had lots of reorders for Star Wars, Empire, Jedi. Sometimes it would a month before we used the same stamper again.

I believe they are based on the same masters. I'll doublecheck at some point.

Checked tonight. No, those are fine.

The player?

@@ChronoRadio Yeah

@@DisneyVideoArchive I haven’t really cared to look as long as they worked, but it looks like my main one, which has a working remote, is a Panasonic LX-H670. The other one, which doesn’t have a working remote, is a Kenwood LVD-320.

@@ChronoRadio The H670 is basic, but at least it has auto-reverse. I used to have a Pioneer CLD-980 until it broke. I'm looking for another Pioneer model, but one from the mid-90s.Hopefully something with AC-3.

Another thing to mention is that Technidisc versions of Empire and Jedi exist.

When an item is tough to come by *and* there's a chance that providing a source would be helpful, I do. However, most of the time, the source would either not be helpful at all or is breathtakingly obvious. The vast majority of items I show come from one of three sources: 1. Another fan selling, trading, or donating the item. In those cases, I specify who provided it and thank them, but that won't do any good to anyone else looking for the same item. If I say, "This was someone I acquired from Bob," that doesn't help anyone else. 2. A new release, usually as a preorder, which has been acquired from one of any number of readily available sources because it's a new release *or* which is an exclusive new release to one location (i.e. Best Buy, Amazon UK, Zavvi, etc.) and had to be preordered through them. In this case, it's either widely available currently (so no need to specify) or it's obvious where this new release was through (because it was only one possible source). If I say, "I preordered this Zavvi exclusive from Zavvi" or "I picked up this new release that's everywhere right now from Walmart," that doesn't do anyone any real good. 3. Just about everything else comes from eBay. Again, in that case, that's not going to help anyone else. If there's something specific for people to look for, I'll tend to mention that, but just because I find something on eBay doesn't mean the same item will be on there whenever someone else looks for the same thing. Even still, I tend to mention finding items on eBa often. That said, if you are part of the Star Wars Home Video Facebook group, we tend to share any time we run across hard-to-find items on eBay to help others acquire them. That would be a good place to look for allies in hunting down items you're having trouble finding. In cases that don't fit those three scenarios, I typically note where something came from, as in the case of the complicated way I acquired the promo DVD with the "missing" Yoda Chronicles episode or how I surprisingly acquired my first George Lucas AFI DVD set from the online Goodwill store. Yes, it's tough to find items at times, but let's take a case like the one in the episode you're commenting on. I acquired the Technidisc version (alongside a spare Mitsubishi version) through eBay. It was the only one on eBay at the time, hence a high price tag. Telling someone "I found it on eBay," which I think I actually do in this or the previous monthly update video, doesn't help actually find the item. Instead, I provide details on the item so that those hunting for it can know what they have found when they come across it and avoid purchasing the "wrong" version when looking for this one. That, I find, is a far more helpful approach for other collectors than just constantly saying, "Hey, look on eBay," which is about the most obvious suggestion for acquiring previous releases that anyone could possibly give. It's something that literally goes without saying most of the time. As far as the UK, I've stated several times in recent videos on UK releases that UK releases are not an area of expertise for me or in which I'm even particularly well versed. My focus is the U.S. market, and I cover UK items when I happen to acquire them and have an opportunity to look into how they fit into UK and international context. It isn't a focus for my collecting or the channel, just interesting curiosities to add as I happen to get them. Many of the more recent ones shown have been only because I happened to acquire a bunch of older VHS releases from the UK when a fellow collector donated his collection into mine last year. They were not things I actively hunted down myself. As far as full rundowns of anything on the show, that's unlikely, whether we're talking UK or otherwise. I attempted that a few times with the oft-updated video on this channel that was a sort of visual timeline of primarily U.S. releases, but those are tough to update, take a ridiculous amount of time to record, are often out of date quickly. As a father of a two-year-old who is with me alone 90% of the time, there's no way I'll be recording anything like that again, at least for a matter of years. For U.S. releases, though, that's not what the show is for anyway. That's what "A Saga on Home Video" is for, if someone is looking for a more comprehensive, chronological rundown of releases from a given region over 4+ decades. That's why the second edition that will launch later this year is nearing 900 pages and 1400 images in its current draft. That's designed to be more thorough than any single video could ever be. Lastly, I take some offense at the notion that not stating the obvious that most older acquisitions come from eBay is somehow "tight fisted" or an indication that I'd be "scared of someone having a better collection" than me. When asking for information or seeking to alter an approach to how episodes are handled so that information you want added can be added, it helps to not come off like a dick immediately. In this case, it wouldn't have changed the answer, but it wouldn't have me sitting here asking myself why I'm bothering to reply in detail to someone who decided to go for insults right out the gate. For what it's worth, the Star Wars home video collecting community, at least in my experience, has been one of the few niches within Star Wars fandom that is almost entirely non-toxic. Members of the community are constantly sharing information, helping each other acquire items, and generally positive toward each other. There isn't much of a sense of competition in that community, such that typically if someone finds something unusual, the response isn't for members to compete over who can acquire it but instead to assist each other in acquiring such items with a sense of "Dude, I had no idea that existed! The hunt is on!" excitement, not rivalry.