Originally posted by: Vigo...But there is a frightening large group of people out there, who honestly think that Star Wars was released in shoddy video quality in theaters, and have absolutely no technical knowledge about video and film formats. Those people keep repeating "But they are in the same quality as seen in theatres back then, so stop whining!". I´m always trying to restrain myself from getting too emotional when i´m confronted with such a large degree of ignorance.
It IS scary how many people think that silent B&W movies always looked scratchy and washed-out, and that color movies from the 30s-70s look "dusty" (as one of the imdb posters put it) and faded. The only reason older films sometimes look bad now is because they have been neglected. When they were new, they were beautiful and pristine- just like any new film we see today. It's just a lack of knowledge about film history, I guess. Pretty sad.