But to the topic, THX mentioned that letterbox is better for people with SD televisions. I'm not disagreeing with this, but there will eventually be a point where SDTVs are not being made and all that is out there are HDTVs. So if you think of it from that perspective, everything should be done in anamorphic because eventually everyone is going to have a HDTV. Before people say that's wrong, let me explain why I believe this to be true. There is going to be a point where they stop manufacturing SDTVs and just manufacture HDTVs. Now there are still gonna be the people that have SDTVs that are still working, but those are going to eventually stop working. So when they go out and buy a new TV they are gonna have to get an HDTV. Also, I remember reading somewhere that everything is going to be going to a digital signal eventually, the government wants it to be by like 2008 or something. People are gonna need to get a converter if they have SDTVs, but with HDTVs they will be fine, or should be fine.
Another thing that is really nice with anamorphic is when watching it on a HDTV you lose the "black bars" for pictures filmed in certain ARs. Now a lot of people complain about the "black bars" when they watch widescreen movies and how they hate them. My parents have a HDTV and I know when I watch my movies on it I prefer to watch the anamorphic movies. I don't mind the "black bars" but with anamorphic on HDTVs you get 33% more detail, or something like that. You also have a bigger viewing area with anamorphic on HDTVs. Since it's inevitable that HDTVs are gonna be in all households at some point in the future, DVD makers should make all the films anamorphic.
I don't think there is any reason for Lucas to not make these films anamorphic. Of course, I also think it's a real shame that he's putting the OOT movies as bonus features and re-releasing the SEs. This was more or less just a rant, cause it's 1:18am now and I was just catching up on some of the posts in the forum.
-Shark2k