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#210807
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New DVDs NOT 16x9
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That's sorta cold man. I'm pretty unhappy at the possibility of this being non-anamorphic, but saying "i'll probably only be happy when he's dead" is some cold shit.

Again,

Jim Ward, Senior Vice President
Lucasfilm Ltd.
5858 Lucas Valley Rd.
Nicasio, CA 94946
Phone: 415-662-1800
Fax: 415-448-2495


give it a ring. it DOES work.
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#210772
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Make your voices heard! (again) - re the 2006 GOUT DVD being in letterbox format
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I dunno..if you have an account at TFN, post this info there in a thread or something. Or whatever other Star Wars forum you visit. Or regular movie forum. Do as Neil (and to a lesser extent, I as well) does: Just wallpaper the internet forums. Movie boards, geek boards, game boards, anything like that. If you visit somewhere and you know people like to talk Star Wars there, Say "Here's his contact info--leave him a voicemail telling him the LD transfer idea is stupid and we want an anamorphic transfer."

You'd be surprised how many people will get a look at this. The ideal is to get this on the front page here and have Bill Hunt at Digital Bits post the number himself and ask his readers to also call and/or mail.
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#210739
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Make your voices heard! (again) - re the 2006 GOUT DVD being in letterbox format
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Here's the thing:

it doesn't hurt to send them a letter or drop a voicemail at this point. if Hunt is wrong (which he rarely is, I can only think of once) then all these calls and emails will simply be reinforcement that going anamorphic was the right decision.

but if Hunt is RIGHT, then this is the window to get that changed. It's a pretty small window. Sitting and waiting just means the window is closed and our opportunity to seriously alter the outcome has passed by.

I'm not saying they need to mail Lucasfilm flaming bags of dogshit. But a letter or a call to the offices stating that putting this thing out non-anamorphic is not a good decision isn't going to hurt.
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#210726
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New DVDs NOT 16x9
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Oh good lord, great. So I say to wait for confirmation. I get confirmation. CONFIRMATION THE WRONG FUCKING WAY, LUCASFILM.

So, I've emailed Jay about the front page. here's my thinking: Last time there was a huge fuckup on the Lucasfilm part that Neil ended up getting right, a few of us at the HTF set about digging up Lucasfilm contact info: Snail Mail addresses, phone numbers, the whole shlemiel. We found them, and we posted them, and we exhorted people to contact the company DIRECTLY about it.

This needs to happen again. I don't have that info on me right now, I'm at work, but I'm thinking we get that info, we slap it on the front page of this site, and we urge people to write a letter, email, call em, and let em know, because in the face of First's latest post, it doesn't sound like we have much time to at least get this thing 16x9.

Sure, bitching about it on the net (and there's gonna be PLENTY of fucking bitching if Hunt isn't wrong, which he rarely is) is going to feel good, but with such a small window where we can actually EXERT some sort of influence, however small, it'd be a crime not to.

70,000 people got us this far--we can try just a little bit harder to do this justice, right?

AND IF Bill does end up being wrong--then this will simply be reinforcement to them that they made the right choice in going anamorphic. But if Bill's not wrong, we need to give em an earful. Not a messageboard earful, but a REAL earful. Phone messages and tangible letters.
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#208498
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How "original" do you think it is going to be...? (the 2006 GOUT DVD release)
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Yeah, I always thought that was funny: In the making of the Special Edition documentaries on the VHS, they pointed to the Snowspeeder scene and the Rancor scenes as examples of how they removed matte lines and opacity problems--and then when you watched the films, there were still opacity problems and a thick line around the rancor.

as a matter of fact, I think in the 04 special edition of Empire, you can STILL see through a part of the cockpit. And I don't mean the windows
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#207904
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ITS HAPPENED-- OOT AVAILABLE FROM LUCASFILM
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No, you were correct...the Lord of the Rings DOES have six parts. There are six books. two per novel. The story is broken up into six distinct books. Really, all the divisions are sort of superficial, as Tolkien always intended for it to be released as one part. the three novel division was sorta arbitrary, although the splitting of the story into 6 different books was always there.

I know I'm splitting hairs unbelievably, since there weren't SIX MOVIES of the Lord of the Rings, but I'm just trying to give you an out