Darth Bizarro said:
And hell, at least we can still watch the original Star Wars. Sure, it might not be in HD, but it's a lot better than the countless television shows that only live on today in 3rd generation television recordings ripped from VHS tapes. For years, there was no way for me to get Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. They only just recently started releasing those,
Darth Bizarro said:
So the shear fact that you can still watch Star Wars in decent quality is, while not optimal, is still good that it will be allowed to live on for you, with or without the validation of other "purists."
Actually Power Rangers has gotten a better release than Star Wars OOT. When Saban bought the series back they got into negotiations with Time Life to release the show on DVD. They did. In one purchase you can get MMPR - Lost Galaxy series episodes. Included in the set are booklets, an action figure(these may have been limited edition), newly shot interviews, the Zeo serial promos leading up to Power Rangers Zeo amongst many more extras. So you can buy each MMPR episode in DVD quality in the original form now if you want.
Also prior to this when Disney owned the series there were season sets that were sold in Germany in 2007 I think. They only had a single episode that wasn't the original cut due to them needing to get the copy from the Disney archives. As for image quality well take a look at the following screen caps from the 2007 set vs the Star Wars Gout Power Rangers Battle scene screen cap so a little bit of blur and another screencap. Some Gout images in this thread. So it's not merely recently that Power Rangers has been released in higher quality than Star Wars OOT.
I presume that the Star Wars Gout release may have something over the Power Rangers release though... They have subtitles accessible via the DVD menu screens. On the Power Rangers non-Germany sets they depend on your tv having the closed captioning option to activate them. So,... yeah um Star Wars has the subtitles!
To further the comparison Saban actually bought the series back at the same time that Disney was altering the original episodes to such an extent of adding animations and deleting scenes. So in essence Saban has saved the original versions from destruction putting up $100 million of his own money to do so. Plus putting $400 million more into building up a company that he can use to distribute the show.
Yet Lucas still refuses to restore the originals...
