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Post #197227

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mcfly89
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Star Wars: Full Frame + Widescreen = ?
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Date created
1-Apr-2006, 2:47 PM
If the PAL laserdiscs are the highest quality copies of the pre-special edition Star Wars movies, and widescreen bars are matted (not anamorphic) so we lose a huge chunk of the picture, would it be possible to make a hybrid cut merging the full frame PAL Star Wars with the Widescreen? What would this look like?

I'm just wondering if anyone has tried this before. I'm also guessing the full frame versions are pan and scan, which would mean that the full frame would have to be matted overtop of the widescreen and aligned shot by shot. Sounds pretty painstaking, but possibly the closest we can get to a higher resolution picture without using the DVD releases.

What do you think?