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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace is 20 years old already?

I still have the VHS tape that I got for my 6th birthday, plus the DVD, blu-ray, VHS tape that one of my aunts had, a coloring book, and even the Japanese laserdisc (with Dolby’s “Ghost Train” trailer)--not to mention a Jar Jar Binks figure, as show below.

4 simple things I love about The Phantom Menace:

Skywalker Sound’s sound design and team

THX all over the place: Digitally Mastered by THX, in select theatres, and mixed in a THX-Certified facility: at Skywalker Sound, plus Quality Assurance Services provided by their Theatre Alignment Program (TAP)!

First movie in Dolby Digital Surround EX, a joint between Dolby and THX! That should be the new surround sound standard instead of plain old Dolby 5.1

VHS Manufactured by The Greatest Name in Color, Technicolor. I never saw their logo before, though I knew the name.

The greatest, most exotic sound design ever would be on Return of the Jedi and my favorite @starwars film is The Force Awakens, but The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones have what my favorite Star Wars trilogy (EPISODES VII-IX) have not: all of that THX and Dolby EX!

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