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Post #961434

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Fang Zei
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"Best" home releases of the pre-SE original trilogy?
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30-Jun-2016, 10:20 AM

Wazzles said:

darklordoftech said:

GOUT is literally what we would have gotten if DVDs existed in 1995, so in terms of offical releases, I’d go with that.

It’s what we would have gotten in like 1998 had it been released, save for the Lego Star Wars demo.

It’s what we would’ve gotten had Lucas refused to spend even a single dime remastering the OOT, just as he refused in 2006.

There are/were plenty of official dvd releases from those first couple years that were not remastered from their laserdisc source and hence stuck at 4:3 letterbox.

Off the top of my head: Conan the Destroyer (since remastered in a hd and available on blu), True Lies and The Abyss (still stuck at that very same quality on home video, if you could believe it), Goodfellas (remastered in hd in 2004 and again recently in 4K), The Doors (remastered the very same week the GOUT hit shelves, ironically enough), Dune (remastered), Star Trek 5-7 (remastered).

The first dvd release of Titanic is a rather unique example of a new release non-catalogue title that, for whatever reason, wasn’t encoded for 16:9 displays. Maybe Paramount just hadn’t gotten the memo that anamorphic video was something this new dvd format could do. It didn’t stop it from being the first dvd to sell a million copies. Barely anyone had a 16:9 tv back in 1998. Heck, a lot of people still didn’t in 2006.