Originally posted by: Mike O

According to Lucas, the original negatives of the O-OT were permanantley altered when he created the SE version, and all the prints they have left of the O-OT are in poor quality.

There are numeours places, on this website and others, which prove that that statement is false. Even if it is true, there are still ways that the OOT could be restored. Lucas just won't let it happen.

Really? Maybe I haven't seen those web sites. The ones I have seen appear to operate under the speculation that Lucas is lying about not having any quality prints laying around.

I agree he probably could cobble something together and clean the ever living crap out of it to produce a nice anamorphic transfer, but I also see his point about not wanting to bother with that considering how much time and effort he has put into getting away from the pre-se versions.