Originally posted by: Raul2106
What some people don't understand is that there were imperfections in the original theatrical presentations of these films. The imperfections support the look and feel. Personally I think this was the best way Lucas could have released the original trilogy. Cleaning the print and taking out all those imperfections, along with adding anamorphic enhancement would have made it like another Special Edition release. I know many of the people here at originaltrilogy.com and other forums disagree. The fact of the matter is if you want what you got in theaters this is it. If you want pristine perfect anamorphic with no imperfections you want OUTE which stands for Original Unaltered Trilogy Enhanced. Perhaps you will get that for the 30th Anniversary?
What some people don't understand is that there were imperfections in the original theatrical presentations of these films. The imperfections support the look and feel. Personally I think this was the best way Lucas could have released the original trilogy. Cleaning the print and taking out all those imperfections, along with adding anamorphic enhancement would have made it like another Special Edition release. I know many of the people here at originaltrilogy.com and other forums disagree. The fact of the matter is if you want what you got in theaters this is it. If you want pristine perfect anamorphic with no imperfections you want OUTE which stands for Original Unaltered Trilogy Enhanced. Perhaps you will get that for the 30th Anniversary?
This post made me chuckle. Are there really people this clueless in the world? Apparently there are. Amazing!
I think most people could have been pretty pleased with a nice, new anamorphic transfer of an existing print. Would there be some dust and flaws? Yeah, because some of that's in the original print. But that's cool. Just as long as no extra dust, noise, or 1993-spec Digital Video Noise Reduction was applied.
But that's not what was produced.
Hell, even Casablanca (almost 30 years older than Star Wars) looks much nicer on DVD, and doesn't change anything from the original. So there is no good technical reason not to have a first-rate transfer that's still faithful to the film.