Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

AntcuFaalb said:

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

While I understand (now) that the LD master was letterboxed, presumably that master was made from some earlier scan. I'd also imagine that that scan was better resolution than letterboxed 4:3.

I'm pretty sure a fairly direct film->...->D-1 pipeline was used. The storage costs for a digital scan of a film at >NTSC resolution would have been massive in '92/93 and it still would have been on tape.

So if I understand you correctly, the letterboxed LD master was likely the highest resolution entity they had, other than the original film?

You'd think they could've just scanned the '93 print and cleaned it up to make it look acceptable and released that in '06. That would've satisfied most people I think