Posted by Joshua Zyber on 07/12/06 22:57

"Goro" <evilninjax@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> >From Digital Bits:http://www.thedigitalbits.com/#mytwocents
>
> And here's a little something that's very interesting: Our friend
> Arnaud Calistri, who runs the DVDRama.com website in France, e-mailed
> me yesterday to say that Fox France has confirmed with him that the
> original versions of the Star Wars films to be released on DVD there
> will be in anamorphic widescreen (enhanced for widescreen 16x9 TVs).

You're a day late posting this. It's already been refuted.

http://www.thedigitalbits.com/#frup

We've got some more interesting standard DVD news to report today,
starting with a follow-up on that French Star Wars DVD controversy we
mentioned the other day. We've gotten a follow-up e-mail from our friend
Arnaud at DVDRama in France. He's actually had the chance to see, with
his own two eyes, the new Star Wars DVDs being released there, and it
turns out Fox France was wrong. Someone in marketing over there
apparently still doesn't know what anamorphic means. The special edition
versions of the films on Disc One of each set are anamorphic, but the
original theatrical editions on Disc Two of each are definitely NOT
anamorphic. They're just letterboxed widescreen as we expected. Fox
France has apparently apologized for the confusion, and we definitely
appreciate Arnaud's efforts in confirming the truth of the situation. So
to sum up, France is getting the same sub-par Star Wars DVDs as the rest
of us. 'Nuff said.

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