Posted by Jeff Rife on 05/22/06 14:30

GMAN (Not@home.now) wrote in alt.video.dvd:
> >On the other hand, this should cheer the bootlegggers up considerably!
> >They'll now be able to continue making money from Lucas' work for years
> >to come, since their transfers are anamorphic. They care more about
> >giving the fans quality copies than Lucas does, it would appear...
>
> How is it that the bootleggers have a anamorphic transfer of the originals and
> Lucas cant come up with one?

Because they just scanned the full frame at 720x640 and then cut out the
middle 480 pixels to end up with 720x480. They didn't gain any
resolution, because there were only 480 scan lines to start with.

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