After reading countless reviews about these Star Wars DVD's over the
past few months here on Amazon from some who are taking this issue way
too seriously to others who just don't seem to have a clue as to what
some words mean, I finally feel compelled enough to write a review of my
own.
To begin, I agree with the majority of reviewers in the
fact that these films, the original unaltered Star Wars trilogy, deserve
much better treatment for release on DVD. Now, from what I understand,
the original negatives/prints were destroyed or altered during the
restoration for the Special Edition release back in 1997 and, as a
result, can't be restored. Therefore, the laser-disc transfers from 1993
are being used as source material for the DVD release, which explains
why these "bonus" DVD's (don't get me started on the originals only
being - according to the soulless marketing geniuses at LucasFilm -
"bonus" discs), won't be anamorphic and without 5.1 surround sound. I
also understand that LucasFilm is not willing to put in as much time,
effort, or money into this project since the original unaltered films
didn't represent his true "vision" for the films. However, I take issue
with the reasoning behind this thought process.
First of all,
I'll admit I'm no film restoration expert, but common sense would tell
me that 95% of the restoration of the original unaltered trilogy has
already been done since only, at the very most, 5% of the original
movies was altered for the Special Edition release
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