For the record, the "Anamorphic Version" as it's being called now, is my Dr.Gonzo version. How they lost the original name is beyond me.

I have corrected this error on the "Versions" thread and have now give you your proper credit and I will do my best to post this information everywhere that I come across them!

"The best bootleg I've ever seen :"

Sorry to tell you, but the colors are really washed out in those pics. Surely there are better looking versions I know mine are.

I have very nice fan-made DVDs of the original films. They all feature isolated scores and a trailer...

"Having the '97 SE's in Dolby Surround is a waste."

Why wouldn't you have them in 5.1?

This is a rip from the 97' Special Edition NOT the 2004 DVD

Betamax = DiVx players

If you bought either hoping they were the next big thing .

Dr.Gonzo is the only one that got the proper aspect ratio.

I have very nice fan-made DVDs of the original films. They all feature isolated scores and a trailer.

Basically, it's a lot of really overzealous sheep who don't really know jack shit about either technology OR good storytelling OR the movies they're spending all day "Fighting" for, jacking off on each other because THEY know Star Wars better than George Lucas does.

Of course not. No one's told them what to think yet.

I mean, I'm overstating it a little, as you said--there's about 6 people over there who DO know their shit, but even some of the people who DO know their shit are pretty fuckin silly about it. And then there's the one who has disappeared so far up his ass he's completely revising THE WHOLE THING, making notes on Episode III and fishing for "new" titles for the OT. And the thing is, the other fuckin plebes are so far up THEIR own asses that they're going along with it. It's goddamn amazing. On a site called "originaltrilogy.com" where the whole point is to vilify the guy who created the movies for EDITING the movies, they're giving unending props to some sheep for editing the movies as if he wrote the fuckers..and the changes he's adding are just as hackneyed and cliched as Lucas...just in a more blatantly sheep manner.

But I can see why'd you be frustrated. It's completely arbitrary, their judgments. It really is. They don't know shit about shit, most times. They're told HOW to judge image, but they don't know WHY they're judging it like they are. They know that you can edit things together on the computer, but the concept of joining a shitty ass mpeg clip from the Behind the Magic cd rom to a DVD rip NOT looking good COMPLETELY flies over their pointy heads. They think the colors on the new DVD's are garish and over the top...but then they're judging off old, pre-restored, blown out home video transfers, and don't even realize they're not very good representations of how good these movies looked theatrically. They don't even understand how ANAMORPHIC works, for christs sake. They know they're angry about SOMETHING, but you give em enough rope, you find out they don't even really know what they're angry ABOUT.

The one good thing? if MeBeJedi really is doing a mini Lowry on this shit and color correcting every fucking frame of this shit--that should be a really nice lookin bootleg.

I think most of the new people posting that they are looking forward to the MagFan Edits have gone there as it's one of the few places on the internet that has threads and info on them

It's that it's star wars fans AT THAT SITE liking different versions and looking forward to MagnoliaFan making his own special editions to replace the old versions that surprises me. It's not that fans are taking to the idea, it's that fans who frequent a site dedicated to the original versions are so eagerly anticipating some anonymous sheep special editions.