Gaffer Tape said:
Yes, it does. And that's one of my main annoyances with these and every other Star Wars DVD that's ever been made. It's especially a problem because the subtitles appear in the matte instead of the actual film. The matte doesn't exist in context of the film. It's simply there to take up space! Therefore, information pertinent to the film shouldn't be in something that's essentially a black hole. But it's there because Lucasfilm is filled with incompetent bastards. I have noticed that the prequel DVDs play with the subtitles in the frame proper when I play it on my widescreen computer, but it's still that shitty, jagged DVD-produced font that's just playing over the film rather than in it. Geez, Lucasfilm is so stupid.

Guess it makes it easier to do foreign versions. I also like the option to not have the words on the screen at all.