When I upscaled the picture to a bigger size, I figured it might have been from Reloaded. As for episodes II and III, they were shot in 16 x 9, however just about all the raw footage is blue screen and completed in 2.35:1. So the full screen dvd's should still be pan & scan, just like the any other Star Wars movie.
The digital cameras didn't turn out so great for II and III, I think they're going to look even worse as HD home video keeps improving. Not only did they use digital but didn't they also lost resolution by cropping from 16 x9? It doesn't appear to matter with super 35 shot on film. But with digital, that detail loss might be important.
TV shows is something that's also confusing me. Like Smallville is matted. So is West Wing after season 1. But why would a show back in 2001 or so been shown in widescreen. With only standard definition available at the time, it would have to be broadcast letterbox even on a widesceen tv. Right?

I really wish there was more of a movement to have open matte versions also available on new video releases. With blu-ray disc capacity, why can't we get both?
I remember reading an old interview on the digital bits I think with Robert Harris and the interviewer said something like "I think people are finally starting to see the point of widescreen and maybe we could also get full frame versions for open matte movies." Harris seemed to agree.

One other question, is The Godfather open matte? I'm hearing about the film restoration but wondering if the new dvd will actually show the entire frame that they spent so much money to clean.