Originally posted by: THX
The fullscreen DVDs do actually have improved resolution in the selected 4:3 area. The same picture area in the anamorphic widescreen DVD uses less pixels horizontally. So, for Blackjack's purposes, the fullscreen versions will be better, as the OUT discs are indeed letterboxed with both versions. Yes, the video was scaled down from HD in 2004. The reason they're not doing a fullscreen OOT (for Nth America) is because they would have to scale it up to fullscreen as their digital master is standard definition.Originally posted by: bactaOT
Just to clarify, do you mean that the whole opening sequence, including crawl/pan down/opening star destroyer shot, has been recomposited for this new dvd release and they haven't used the opening sequence from the 1993 laserdisc masters at all?

We don't know for certain that it's not on the 1993 master... but it's not the shot they used on home video in 1993/5. It appears that it's from another source, one which includes the original crawl. This is not a reason to get upset and say "well why didn't do this for the entire film", because it's only speculation and the costs and resources involved would be a lot more if they were doing the entire film compared to just one shot. Besides they probably restored that shot before this year.