The second story boba feta linked to, which refers to Zaentz's quote to the New York Times from Italy (as opposed to the first story, which refers to his earlier quote from Germany).
The "latest news" about Jackson being back is actually based on comments made by Saul Zaentz before New Line rejected Jackson. Indeed, it may have been because of Zaentz's comments that New Line figured Jackson was trying to wait them out and therefore let him go (although Jackson denies prior knowledge of the rights time-out).
a) New Line is trying to strong-arm Jackson into dropping the lawsuit;
b) Jackson is trying to strong-arm New Line into settling the lawsuit;
c) Jackson doesn't want to work with New Line anymore, so he's been using the lawsuit as a pretext to stall until the rights revert to Saul Zaentz - now that New Line is calling his bluff, he has to get MGM to pull out, hence the announcement to stir up the fans;
d) MGM doesn't want to split the deal with New Line, so they cooked this scheme up with Jackson from the start.
I'm going to give Jackson the benefit of the doubt and plump for a). But it's interesting to consider the alternatives.
Now if you want Jackson on board, you can't appeal to New Line's kindness - you have to appeal to them on a business level. So the sensible thing is to widely propagate a boycott of all New Line movies (and all Time Warner products?) until they sign him.
Of course, this won't make any difference if it's d), but it'll help for a), b) or c).
The other solution is to persuade George Lucas to buy New Line and give Jackson the green light, thus redeeming himself and unifying LOTR and SW fandom.
b) Mr Bungle already posted this news in this thread on November 3rd;
c) BeeJay, if you are not in a PAL country, you are definitely not going to want those discs. Even if you are, you might not (they are upscaled from the NTSC master).
If the dye-transfer print was used as color reference for the SE - could it be that the original (pre-video) color is closer to the '04 than the DC/GOUT?
That seems wrong, from memory, but memory (particularly color memory) is unreliable.
Not sure if this is the right thread, but I didn't want to start a new one just for one question.
Can anyone tell me if the '97 SE LDs have the same (or similar) color "correction" seen on the '04 DVDs?
I know it's shown in this thread that the '97 SE digital broadcasts do have it, but I thought it could have conceivably been applied after the LD release.