DuracellEnergizer said:

danny_boy said:
Picture quality/Sound quality is not the only pre-requisite for enjoying a movie.

No, but it helps ;-)

Whilst I would be inclined to agree with you on a superficial level-Sometimes I do wonder if optimum picture/sound quality really does help.

The contemporary home theater viewer is so engrossed in how the film "looks" that he/she loses sight of the actual substance of the movie(story/acting/pacing/music-ect).

And with films like Star Wars....the relatively low resolution of Laserdisc and VHS and even the 35mm theatrical prints of the time(which were little above the equivalent of 720P) obscured(or at least drew the viewer's attention away from) those matte lines and grainy 4th generation optical composites.

On edit:

On the subject of sound quality:

People still enjoyed Star Wars in 77',even though the vast majority of them experienced it in Mono!