Great article as usual, zombie.

The main problem is that even how bad the situation look to us hardcore fans of the original films, to the general public it is just available in Laserdisc quality, (not even that, for those in the know how) or in some cases, DVD quality... "no big deal, no suppression going on here." Had they not released the GOUT, our words would have more weight.

Cameron's The Abyss for example, was never released on DVD in anamorphic, I know it's a bad comparison, because that DVD included both versions in the same quality, and a new HD version is on the way I think.

But bad and old video transfers is nothing that was a huge issue to the regular people in the standard definition era, but soon it will be a extremely unique situation if you take the status and popularity of these films into account, these films are among the biggest, most popular and most iconic films in history afterall, and when the general public with their new HD TV's want to experience the original films again (I hope they still want, even though the brand has been crapped upon in over a decade) they will recognise that their cheap pornos are in better video quality than the GOUT, and then our voices will be relevant again, just me trying to be realistic and optimistic.

Zombie, even though the main purpose of your site is the Star Wars trilogy, could perhaps a little article about his alterations and suppression made to THX 1138 and American Graffiti also fit on your site? it would be great.