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Well, I was over at Penny Arcade today, and found some news that I didn't think could get me more pissed off about Lucas and his butchering of the original Star Wars.

Long story short: The DVD edition is going to be rips from the 1993 laserdisc edition since they "lost" all the original source materials. Reading further it's looking like it'll be letterboxed, not anamorphic.

After this, I'm not even going to bother with going to see the final Indiana Jones movie now, or ever seeing anything he has a hand in.


<persnicketty>Well, technically even an anamorphic transfer would be letterboxed. 4x3 = 1.33:1, 16x9 = 1.78:1, and Star Wars is 2.35:1. An example</persnicketty>

Here's an article that talks about how there are materials available to do a restoration, with quotes from both LucasFilm and the Digital Bits, a good DVD site.

--Nathan