tweaker: What I mean by unaltered in this case is that the video that the guy captured from Cinemax has not been re-encoded to save space or anything like that that might affect the video quality. Just a straight capture of the video exactly as it was put out by Cinemax with no alterations. If I recall correctly, the German version that was on recently did have a rather good bit-rate, but the German subtitles take that out of the running for a good HD capture to watch at home, unless you happen to be German.

This upcoming Star Wars showing on Sky HD is expected to be quite good looking from what everyone's saying, so that's good news. But they will all have to be slowed down to the proper film speed (no PAL speed up) and the audio replaced with the U.S. Star Wars trilogy and prequel DVD 5.1 soundtracks. So in the mean time, the Cinemax broadcast is the best available. In any case, get the Blu-Ray burners ready.

As far as the unaltered original Star Wars trilogy with a new transfer from the fully restored master film prints on DVD (and then eventually on high definition DVD), that's what we all really want.

But for now, let's at least get the 2004 trilogy set and the prequels in HD before any further changes are made in the 30th anniversary set.