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By the way, we've amended our comments from yesterday on the MGM DVD "settlement" issue. No actual settlement has happened - the weblink we gave you is a settlement proposal posted on a web page created by the law firm involved. We're going to be doing more research over the weekend, but frankly, based on our initial investigation (and talks with people trust within the industry), the whole argument seems completely baseless and without merit. It basically seems like a couple of yahoos, who have no real understanding of the way widescreen films are transferred to DVD for 16x9 and 4x3 presentation, think they've stumbled onto some big conspiracy by MGM to defraud their customers. If there was any truth to their claim, given all of the videophiles and film critics out there who obsessively nitpick their DVDs to death in terms of presentation quality, SOMEONE would have blown the whistle long before this. Anyway, we'll have more on this whole thing next week.
I also found something talking about a Spaceballs: Special Edition (would Mel Brooks make alterations to HIS movie too??) on the same site.
So, if the MGM thing is legit, I might be tempted to trade mine in for the money, and use that for the newer edition.