Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
Yes I understand now what you are getting at and I agree. But I also feel that if he's gonna release it on DVD to stop us whining he may as well do it properly. I don't want it cleaned up or fixed in any way - I just want the best possib;le transfer he and his colleagues are capable of. This is Star Wars for god's sake - treat it with some respect.
I personally am not that bothered about the anamorphic debate - I just want Star Wars preserved on DVD so I can watch it over and over without worrying about my VHS degrading and snapping, but the fact that he seems to be pulling this shit on purpose to rub shit in our faces irritated me enough to write to the guy. He's clearly insane.
When bands release their old albums on CD, they don't sound all crackly and shit like a vinyl, they sound like a CD. And that's because the original recording, the band's original performance, sounded that way, and the crappy medium of vinyl altered that sound to something less than it was. By cleaning up the masters and laying them onto a CD, we get a better, clearer sound. It's the same in this case - 35mm is incredibly clear and beautiful to watch - and DVD can go some way towards replicating that (further than VHS or Laserdisc anyway). The technology exists to allow us to watch one of the greatest, most seminal movies of all time in a good, clear way, so why not let us? It's just spiteful and sad.
thats true but this probably is the best he has, with the money he wants to put into it. to get what you guys want would probably require him to go back to the original film, and then just like he did in 93. Remaster the whole thing, along with the THX(or what ever it is) sound and everything. it is very likely that this is the best version of the OOT that is easily at his disposal, and since he is doing it as a favour to the dieheart fans he doesnt want to put all the money into redoing everything. i think that if he does everything you suggest he would just release it in its own DVD. but he doesnt want to do that cause i think somewhere in GL mind he thinks that if he spends all that money on redoing everything from scratch he will sell at a lose. so many people out there have the dvds already from last year.i dont think he expects LOTS of people to buy these just cause the OOT is on them, and that is why you have high cost for them in the first place.