Info Wanted: 2006 GOUT Full Screen DVDs?

Hope this is the right place to ask this.
I’ve got both the Widescreen and Full Screen releases of the '04 Special Editions and the Widescreen releases of the '06 GOUT Limited Edition DVDs.
There were also Full Screen releases of the '06 Limited Edition DVDs (blue banner on the top and bottom, like the PT Full Screen DVDs), but does anybody know if these editions included the GOUT in Full Screen, or was it just the Special Edition that was Full Screen with the bonus disc remaining the same as the one from the Widescreen release?

I haven’t been able to find a definitive answer anywhere and don’t want to drop more money getting the blue banner releases of the Limited Edition DVDs if it’s just a Full Screen SE disc and standard GOUT disc, which I already have both of for all three films anyway.

Swazzy said:

I own that set. The GOUT is the same, non anamorphic widescreen with black bars on the top and bottom.

George had to make everyone​ angry. The people who wanted widescreen had to deal with letterboxing, and the people who wanted full screen had to deal with widescreen.

Wazzles said:

the people who wanted full screen had to deal with widescreen.

They deserve it. People who want full screen should be locked up.

Swazzy said:

I own that set. The GOUT is the same, non anamorphic widescreen with black bars on the top and bottom.

Damn. Thanks though!

TV’s Frink said:

They deserve it. People who want full screen should be locked up.

FS can at times have more detail than its WS counterpart in the 4:3 area, as well as a few other technical uses.
That and I find it enjoyably nostalgic from time to time.

This makes me wonder if anyone has tried superimposing a P&S tape with the GOUT to compare detail. Though, I assume since the GOUT is a Laserdisc master, it will beat any P&S source a few generations away. This exercise would be a waste of time anyway, with 35mm sources now available to us.

TV’s Frink said:

They deserve it. People who want full screen should be locked up.

I like full screen.

http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Restoration-tips-Overlap-matching/id/16240

http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/When-does-fullscreen-show-more-than-widescreen/id/9012

R1

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

TV’s Frink said:

Wazzles said:

the people who wanted full screen had to deal with widescreen.

People who want full screen should be locked up.

You’re being generous.

I’m a very giving person.

Ryan-SWI said:
FS can at times have more detail than its WS counterpart in the 4:3 area, as well as a few other technical uses.
That and I find it enjoyably nostalgic from time to time.

That means you should be locked up. After all, Frink has decreed it, and anybody who has different preferences or opinions from Frink for any reason is a moron.

Density said:

Ryan-SWI said:
FS can at times have more detail than its WS counterpart in the 4:3 area, as well as a few other technical uses.
That and I find it enjoyably nostalgic from time to time.

That means you should be locked up. After all, Frink has decreed it, and anybody who has different preferences or opinions from Frink for any reason is a moron.

SUSTAINED.

But also OVERRULED.

http://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1057911
http://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1057931

http://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1057918 / http://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1057909
http://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1057929

Do we really need forum drama?

Wazzles said:

Do we really need GOUT full screen DVDs?

Nope!

Wazzles said:

Swazzy said:

I own that set. The GOUT is the same, non anamorphic widescreen with black bars on the top and bottom.

George had to make everyone​ angry. The people who wanted widescreen had to deal with letterboxing, and the people who wanted full screen had to deal with widescreen.

Not quite everyone. The GOUT is fine for displaying on a standard CRT TV. Anamorphic has no benefit in such a case.

Double post.

I find it odd that they even bothered releasing the GOUT DVDs with a full screen SE disc and a Widescreen GOUT disc when they already had stand alone one disc full screen releases of the SE.
Lucas wanted more money for a change, I guess.

When you consider the crawl, that technically makes it a new version of the film. You have the 77 release and its 3 soundtracks, the 81 rerelease with the new crawl/flyover and the same soundtracks, the 85 home video release with a new soundtrack, the 1993 home video release with a new soundtrack, and the 2006 release with a restored 77 crawl/flyover. It fits with GL’s penchant for tinkering. It should have included the 77 stereo soundtrack. But we have fixed that with our fan release of the GOUT.

RU.08 said:

Can you think of any other 2.35:1 DVD releases from 2006 that were non-anamorphic?

No, but that doesn’t have anything to do with what I said.

It doesn’t matter really since most modern players can crop and zoom a non-anamorphic disc.

It still matters if you have a display which can take advantage of anamorphic DVDs. Cropping and zooming is just a kludge. It doesn’t give you the extra resolution that anamorphic DVDs have. Of course, all DVDs have the same resolution (720 x 480 for NTSC), but anamorphic DVDs use more of the available resolution for picture content, whereas a letterboxed non-anamorphic DVD wastes more of the available resolution on black bars (letterboxing).

With a standard-resolution CRT TV it doesn’t matter, because the effective increase in resolution isn’t noticeable, and there are no display format issues either, because anamorphic and non-anamorphic DVDs display exactly the same on a 4:3 TV, assuming your DVD player is doing its job properly. Note that standard-resolution, 4:3 CRT TVs were still being sold new in mainstream stores until at least 2007.