At least they noticed--I halfway expected they would never say anything more about it at all. They must have been inundated with messages protesting their shoddy treatment. It's something.
I was ready to just say forget it, but The Bizzle makes a very good point--they've paid us this level of attention so far, maybe we can keep pushing them and get more results. It'll be a long, slow, torturous process, but something could still come of all this. Who knows?
It's absurd, this rubbish about the laserdisc master being the best they've got around. Give me an effin' break, here. We're not even asking for a huge and painstaking restoration project (hell, a slightly dirty picture is how I grew up watching it on VHS to begin with, and the uber-cleaned '04 picture looks unnatural to me). We just want it to be from something of higher resolution and that won't have black bars ON ALL FOUR SIDES OF THE PICTURE. Cripes. Define stubborn?
What other director has ever treated his own works with such contempt, indeed. None I've ever heard of. If freaking King Kong can be put back together at over 40 years older than SW, then I just don't buy their pathetic excuses at all.