Joral said:

Somewhat offtopic:

I don't suppose there's an HD version of uncropped version of entire trilogy, is there?

Would love to have that one in HD as I grew up watching it and whenever I see widescreen version I just can't help but feel constantly that stuff is missing...

Granted, in some shots you actually get to see more of the picture in widescreen, but in most you end up losing more than you gain.

Here are some comparison pics:

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To make the difference even clearer, I made this comparison:

To me this cropping feels like the cropping in the Dragon Ball Z Digitally Remastered 'orange bricks', if anyone here is familiar with them; losing a whole amount of picture from the top and bottom and gaining barely any on the sides. I've gotta agree with you that a proper decent quality HD fullscreen remaster from proper filmstock (without over-the-top DVNR for the love of all that's good) would be a huge improvement over the HDTV and BD masters. Though for now it seems that the HDTV one is the best for now.

At least these movies are still perfectly watchable in widescreen, though I'd prefer more picture any day.