The only thing that's actually been frustrating me is that - while we are here to combine our efforts on preservations and fan edits IN LIEU OF a proper oot release - we've all very rapidly adopted the attitude that Lucas could never possibly be brought around to sharing the sentiment.

To be fair (and to keep things on topic), it's totally understandable why we've pretty much given up any hope of that ever happening. I mean, back in May of '06 when digitalbits broke the news of the laserdisc bidniss, RAH himself basically threw up his arms and said "I give up. I'm willing to do this restoration job free of charge and you don't even want that. What the hell, man."

At this point it's not a question of "could he," but "would he."

Hey, The Graduate didn't get an anamorphic dvd release in the U.S. until just last year unless I'm mistaken.