It was shown on TV in widescreen apparently, and Ben, a pro who has a great collection, snagged it digitally.
It's bizarre that there are no bargain basement DVD releases of Howard. Lucas ...
Any bonus material you have, keep it at the ready -- once I get all the Thief and the Cobbler etc stuff from Ben, when it's in my hands, you'll see a Howard the Duck thread in forum 11. Mark my words. Ditto Muppet movie extended. These are sort of backburner to the big Thief project, but they do seem to be happening.
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Doctor M -- as I said I don't feel like talking about what I was planning to do, since it's silly now ... but the main increase in quality was gonna be that I was using your remixes for the LD stuff. =) Great work there. Many thanks to Moth3r for doing such great PAL transfers. And thanks to you for remixing them for NTSCers. Well done folks.