Originally posted by: Grinder
Is it so hard to do a telecine? I've seen a ROTS version looking as good as the official DVD, when it was out only a week. That must have been a telecine, because as far as I know there haven't been promo DVD's of it.

You talking about the one with TC (time code)? That had to be an inside job -- and digital, to boot. Otherwise, yeah, it's hard. Not to actually do the telecine transfer (well, that's not so trivial itself) but actually getting the film on a telecine someplace.

A huge-ass hard-core pirate ring might be able to manage, but I'm sayin' it's virtually impossible for the preservation hobbyist like you or me.