It kind of matters what TV size you have. I prefer widescreen, because it shows the whole picture while fullscreen cuts some of the picture out. The only reason to get fullscreen is if you have a really small TV.
This site explains it better than me and their are pictures to show the difference.
http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/anamorphic/index.html
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I was intrigued when I saw one guy walking out of the store with the display, then I saw another one and just did a little "inspectigating", and the stocker told me I could have it. Right time, right place.
If I were still a huge SW collector, I'd be geeked out right now, but, this one will probably go to eBay or one of my old collecting pals.
MAKE SURE YOU BUY WIDESCREEN. It's bad enough that these aren't the "real" movies, buying it in foolscreen will only make it worse.
It's nice to see the OT all clean and shiny and sounding groovy. Some of the changes are just fine with me, nice swooshy lightsabers etc. I still dont get why he'd want greebo to shoot first but at least it's not as bad as the '97 version. Jabba still looks shitty in EIV and some of the added digital Mos Eisley stuff is ruined by "humor" - Look the robot is
funny! look a jawa fell off a beastie!
GL is not a funny man (AOTC for eg - 3p0's "what a drag" and "I'm beside myself" lines - holy crap did NOBODY have the balls to tell him that sucked? Nobody?) and needs to stop writing "funny".
The extras disk is a goldmine of fun - and so between this clean version of the OT on DVD and the original unadulterated copy of the OT that my g/f has you could cobble together a version thats the best of both.
(& yes you can get the raw unchanged OT on dvd - it's available on laserdisk so do the math people... Ive had the Malaysian edition 97 OTSE on DVD for years)
The green flashes are really anoying during the Vader Obi Wan fight, and it happens more than once. I have no idea why that a glitch that noticable is in there, I don't remember that ever happening on the VHS tapes.
Anyways, what things are you guys most pleased by in the dvds, and what are you most displeased by. The thing I like the most is the clearity is superb, and they added a sound effect for when the Stormtrooper hits his head on the door in ANH, awesome! If you listened to Lucas in the commentary for AOTC, he said he had Jango Fett hit his head in the movie to kinda have a running joke that that characteristic then was given to all the clones, which is cool. The thing I don't like about the dvds are the lightsaber jumps are still in ANH, Luke's lightsaber is still white, and those damn green flashes.