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Nien Nunb
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Why are people like this?
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1-Mar-2023, 2:00 AM

CatBus said:

MonkeyLizard10 said:

One thing though is that plenty of home video releases are NOT the pinnacle of image quality.

Absolutely. And a corollary argument that could be made is, even IF you accepted that Lucasfilm could release the original trilogy, would you actually want them to? Because Lucasfilm has been fucking up the trilogy on home video since there was home video to fuck it up on. Don’t make me whip out the four-eyed stormtrooper again!

I am of the opinion that even if a miracle happened and they made their best effort for a modern home video release of the original trilogy, it would still only be good in terms of supplying better raw materials for fan preservations. But something you could just watch straight? Unlikely. It would have 93 audio, 81 crawl, heavy DNR, and some dreadful color correction, and that’s your best-case scenario.

Part of waiting for copyright expiration for an official release (other than I won’t be around to see it) is that some shoestring public domain operation like Laserlight could release it, and they can’t afford all the video processing required to mess it up.

I wouldn’t necessarily consider the '81 crawl a guarantee considering Lucasfilm went out of their way to splice the '77 crawl into the GOUT DVD when everything else about the release was so minimal effort that they really could have just left it as is. Everything else sounds about right tho. I think any theoretical release from Disney/Lucasfilm would have the '77 crawl at minimum just because they know that’s the #1 thing people are going to bitch about.