The trick is to hit em with common sense on this. Being antagonistic (while we ALL WANT TO DO IT) won't get anything done. Hell, the fact we forced them to issue a press release and give interviews to the industry mags really says something. If we keep pressing on this, something might actually happen. I'm not naive enough to think it WILL DEFINITELY, but it's a shot, and the last shot we took actually DID HIT SOMETHING.

So if you're going to continue emailing publicity@lucasfilm.com, basically let them know this:

By commissioning a new, no-frills transfer from quality elements (that we know they DO HAVE) and giving us an anamorphically encoded DVD of that transfer, they ensure

a) Their standing as a top of the line company when it comes to a/v quality is upheld
b) The fans they're marketing this release to are actually enticed to buy it
c) They profit more from the number of copies sold to those fans who otherwise weren't picking this thing up.

I mean, by spending the money it takes to have Robert Harris (or even their own in-studio guy) doing this new transfer, they stand to win all the way around. But if they maintain on their present course, they lose sales, they lose face in the industry, and they lose respect from potential customers.

It's really easy. They gave us an answer--we give them common sense back. It's in their best interests to do this. We just gotta let em know we'll be there if they do this. Most of us WANT to buy this thing. Not with a 13 year old transfer for a dead format. Not when, for the first time on a Star Wars DVD ever, we get a non-anamorphic extra. And the irony is that the first non-anamorphic extra--is the 1977 Original Theatrical Version of Star Wars. that seems backwards.