Knightmessenger wrote:

About the splitscreen trailer, I saw an excerpt of it on some website in a really low quality, low color space. This was the days before youtube and internet video.

Haven't come across that one. I don't remember seeing it to be honest. Am looking, they were splitscreen top and bottom?

tag has been accepted, it's not getting used.

Here are two of the old school SW video sites:

http://multimedia.theforce.net/

http://www.starwarz.com/tbone/index.php?categoryid=27

This looks promising:

http://www.blueharvest.net/video/original.shtml

Link doesn't work but they describe something similar: compare.mov

Comparison made between the original movie quality and the THX enhanced version.

Could it have been a CNN news report, they link to CNN.com.

The days before youtube were not that bad. (see tBSWM, 700 sources before youtube) best thing everything was decentralized. Youtube's made the trade off that more people could upload, but it's also taken away the public's need to understand the basics of video. So now that the <video> tag has been accepted, people aren't able to build off it and see how video could be reused. Internet video has become the same as television, a one way street. Could have been so much more. Just going to take another 5-10 years...