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Long story short: The DVD edition is going to be rips from the 1993 laserdisc edition since they "lost" all the original source materials. Reading further it's looking like it'll be letterboxed, not anamorphic.

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... the Special Editions were created through a frame-by-frame digital restoration. The negatives of the movies were permanently altered for the creation of the Special Editions, and existing prints of the first versions are in poor condition.

It's not that they are lost, it's that they don't want to take the time to do it right.

And how since the SE's were "created through a frame-by-frame digital restoration" are the original negatives permanently altered?