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Yeah. On a large-screen 16:9 television set, the difference between an anamorphic DVD and a regular letterbox DVD is like night and day. The anamorphic transfers (even transfers of 2.35:1 material that still has black bars) are orders of magnitude better than a letterbox transfer. Zooming a letterbox transfer to fit the 16:9 screen looks so awful in comparison that I flatly refuse to buy movies that are encoded that way.

What he said Even if it was just a rip from the LD copy, it doesn't take that much work to encode it properly. Lucas wants this DVD release to fail, there's no other reason why he's doing it this way.