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Posted by lugnut on 10/07/46 11:56
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:21:30 -0400, Derek Janssen
<ejanss@nospam.comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> But, the question I have to ask here is "If someone knows this is the
>> laserdisc port, then wouldn't that mean that person already *has* the LD
>> port, and if they already have it, why would you want the same exact thing -
>> on DVD, especially since it's *NOT* any better than what you've already
>> got?!"
>
>Well, probably because I've never owned a LD player in my life, and only
>know that the New Original is the '96 LD version,
>A) from hearing the core fans point it out, and
>B) from various pieces of evidence in the "Did George really 'destroy
>the old prints', or not?" debates, and Lucas's "All we had was the
>non-ana LD in our vaults" excuse as Exhibit A for why the French aren't
>getting an anamorphic version either.
>
From what I took of it, saying "it's the laserdisc" is a bit
inaccurate - the DVD will be mastered from the same source material
used for the laserdisc, but it's not as if they're running a LD player
through a video capture card and calling it a day, the way some make
it sound.
-lugnut
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