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According to Lucas, the original negatives of the O-OT were permanantley altered when he created the SE version, and all the prints they have left of the O-OT are in poor quality.
Actually what they did give us is substantially better than a laserdisc rip. I am sure you know they went to the laserdisc master for their O-OT transfer.
I do agree it would be better if it had been anamorphic but at least Lucas did release it on DVD.
Personally I think this is the best the O-OT has looked on home video so far, not counting the 2004 SE version.
I did see one of the Phantom Edits, but I didn't think it was all that good. It was the one that didn't alter Jar-Jar's dialogue. For some reason they cut out some of the more important scenes, and left in some of the more annoying bits with Jar-Jar.
Personally I loved Jar-Jar, but I figured the first priority for making a fan edit like this was to get rid of as much Jar-Jar stuff as possible.
I don't think that was the Magnoliafan edit though.
It sounds like you saw the Phantom Edit, but it could be another one, I don't keep up with every edit out there. lol
The MagnoliaFan edit had Jar Jar and all gungans, and the neimodian's dialouge changed to alien language, then subtitled them differently to change dialouge. As a result, some plot points were changed or modified. The neimodians are a bit less wimpy, and there is given a reason why the gungans and the people of Naboo don't like each other, among other things. I thought it was a good edit, and even made Jar-Jar less annoying. It wasn't just a FF past Jar-Jar. I encourage you to check out the threads dealing with these two edits and to see the changes he made.
I know it was the laserdisc master, as I said in my post. But they could of done better than that. Lucas has never thrown anything away in his life. He has kept most every prop, costume, and model from all his films. He supposedly has the master tape of the Star Wars Holiday Special. So I don't buy that he got rid of all copies of the OOT. He 'somehow' found the original crawl to put with the OUT. (assuming it isn't a repro, which since no one has been able to show is, I'll say is original).