obi-rob-kenobi4 (theforce.net) said:In reality George Lucas gave the OOOT obsessors exactly what it was that they wanted in 2004. He gave the smug, obnoxious little punks and hipsters and criminals the exact thing that they were illegally selling and shearing and downloading and bootlegging and he gave it to them on a convenient dvd. And no matter what you try to say YES it was the best quality possible. For THAT particular version of the films it is the only way to watch them. That particular version was not ever restored/changed to be able to properly watch on a 50'' flat screen. It was/is only watchable on a tube tv. Thats the whole point Lucas was trying to make when he released it in 2004. You wanna see it so bad? Ok tell ya what ill do Ill make it so you dont have to be forced to watch it on vhs anymore and you dont even have to be forced to watch it on a computer screen anymore. You can watch it on a dvd on a big screen tube tv. Flat screen, HD tvs did not even exist when this was made, it was made to be seen on a movie projector or a tube tv screen. Thats it.
Normally, ignorance would just receive my silent pity.
But a person that displays such a degree of ignorance while film history is being suppressed just deserves a fist in the face. Plain and simple. This guy's understanding of technology obviously does not go beyond "putting 2 carrots in a blender", and even that must be a tiring task for his poor 5 gram brain, you must remember to put the cover back on and get your hands out of the container.
And this is what's happening. All these braindead twits are just accepting what's being shoved into their mouths or they just crap out nonsensical arguments (I don't know which one is worse) to justify what in reality is a very, very simple thing.
At this moment in time, it is impossible to see three movies as released in '77, '80 and '83 in the current modern home video format. And this is not because "they were made for tube tvs"... THEY WERE NOT SHOT ON TAPE FFS!!! Millions of movies were shot on 35mm film and are now available in High Definition. Hell, "Manos" was shot on 16mm and is being scanned in HD as we speak!!
If they had been shot on tape, where do they think the extra resolution would have come from, when making the latest Super Duper Extra Deluxe Special Editions on BluRay??? Magic??? The Force™???
They call us "smug, obnoxious little punks and hipsters and criminals "? Well I call them ignorant **********s.