Originally posted by: BeeJayWhy don't you believe the OOT had a proper release in September of this year?
Look at posts on these threads from on or after May 18th and you'll know why.
Labeling it as bonus content was one thing, fine, so we also have to buy the SE when we buy the original unaltereds. But that same press release from May 3rd also had Jim Ward saying, and I quote "We returned to the Lucasfilm Archives to search exhaustively for source material that could be presented on DVD. This is something that we're very excited to be able to give to fans in response to their continuing enthusiasm for Star Wars."
Sorry, but I really don't think they had to do all that much searching for a few master tapes from 1993. That line about our "continuing enthusiasm for Star Wars" makes it seem like none of us want the OOT on dvd for any reason beyond nostalgia and that we'll accept whatever quality it's in. To remind everyone here that I'm criticizing quality of presentation, not content, the SE is presented in anamorphic widescreen just like every other widescreen movie ever made is expected to be, but the OOT is not!
To give the altered version the expected standard treatment and to give the original unaltered a substandard treatment is not fair at all, is it?