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"Sansweet kicked off this year’s Star Wars demo addressing Internet chatter bemoaning the fact that the original theatrical versions Lucasfilm is finally putting on DVD are from the laserdisc transfer and are not in anamorphic widescreen or completely digitally restored.
Sansweet had some fun with the audience, showing a scene from the movie in a tiny square in middle of the hall’s gigantic five video screens, then showing the same scene tweaked to have about the quality of a NASA Earth-to-Moon video transmission.
“I’m done messing with you,” Sansweet said, and cued the “real” clip of the oft-discussed “Han shoots first” scene from A New Hope, which was greeted with massive cheers from the audience.
“The transfers are absolutely incredible,” Sansweet said, “I have never seen a movie look this good at this level, despite what you may have heard in Internet rumors.”
The original laserdisc transfers went through a frame-by-frame digital color correction, he said".