neebis said:
skyjedi2005 said:
It seems to me an artists rights are in conflict with the historical preservation of these classic films. Why can't Lucas do both?

Oh, the irony...

With Martin Scorsese and other filmmakers, Lucas also continues to lead the fight for film preservation. "It's amazing," he says, "that you have to fight the studios to get them to preserve their films. . . . Parts of 'Dr. Strangelove' are gone; some of the music is lost. Kubrick is having to photograph individual frames to create a new fine-grain negative. That's madness, tragic madness."

from The Home Audience Is Listening - Technology: George Lucas' THX sound system

ROTFL!!!!

Knightmessenger said:
What can be done? Don't buy any new releases of Star Wars unless they contain the originals.

Well, that's an obvious one for me. I felt zero motivation to buy the 2004 set and never did. I did buy the GOUT, though, multiple copies to do my bit for its sales (and just in case a copy busts or something). Yeah it was a slap in the face, but it was still the OOT on dvd. It works fine for me. I couldn't care less if it's not anamorphic. My only concern is about the OOT appearing on future formats, because dvds stop working after 10-15 years so sometime a future format version will be needed.