WedgeCyan said:
OK... but weren't the widescreen discs for the '04 SE anamorphic? There is literally no reason to have made the GOUT non-anamporphic other than to insult the fans who asked for it.
Yes, there is a reason, and it has already been pointed out. In short, the masters they used were essentially glorified 4:3 DVDs to begin with. To go from a 4:3 DVD source to a 16:9 DVD, you have to upscale the vertical resolution of the picture area. Upscaling the master when authoring a DVD isn't normally done by professionals unless they absolutely have to.
The SE DVDs came from far superior masters (probably 4K scans) rather than 720x480 4:3 D1 tape, so they had way more resolution than they needed to properly make 16:9 DVDs. Unfortunately, these far superior masters were scanned from negatives which had been vandalized by George Lucas and co. in 1997, and then they vandalized the masters even more (additional retcons, bad colors, washed-out lightsabers, way too much grain removal, etc.) in 2004 before using them to author the SE DVDs. These masters obviously couldn't be used to make Star Wars trilogy DVDs, because they were glorified fan edits, rather than the real Star Wars trilogy.
Anyone else who spends any amount of time on TFN may recognize this as the infamous "you're getting what you deserve" mantra.
Only people who don't read so well, given that I haven't said, suggested, nor even hinted at any such thing.
If I owned Lucasfilm, there would be no "GOUT", nor would the underlying abbreviation "OUT" even exist, because there would be no need for it. The work done in '97 would have strictly been a restoration and scanning process. 16:9 DVDs would have been released soon thereafter. When Blu-ray came along there would have been a new release, following a new 4K scan (scanning equipment has improved since '97). Both releases would have been available in boxsets and individual discs. Film grain would have been left intact in both cases.
AntcuFaalb said:
I can just imagine him approaching and hugging his GOUT DVDs like Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting.
"It's not your fault!"
"It's not your fault!"
"It's not your fault!"
Your imagination is wildly disconnected from reality, or from anything which logically follows from reality. Assigning the fault to a DVD because it doesn't work ideally on a TV it wasn't designed for, is absurd. It is not the DVD's fault, it is not the DVD player's fault, and it is not the TV's fault. The fault obviously lies with the person who is trying to fit a square peg into a round hole, so to speak.
By the way, I'm using the word "fault" literally; I'm not anthropomorphizing the GOUT. Saying that it is not the DVD's fault is exactly the same thing as saying that the source of the problem (i.e., the fault) is not the DVD.
Similar things happen when people connect old video game consoles to 16:9 digital TVs, and it is equally absurd to blame the video game console for the results being less than ideal.