> NOOOOO!!!!!! The blasphemy, in my opinion (like I already said before), is the change > in aspect ratio. The original question was about aspect ratio, not about the film > source.
I concur. I have not taken the time to do any picture comparisons but if they merely cropped out the top and bottom to make it widescreen (and let's be honest, back when DL and SA were made, nobody was doing widescreen for games or home viewing) then they just screwed up big time.
At first I was pretty happy that Digital Leisure was taking an active role in preserving a pretty groundbreaking series of games but after seeing how they are merely cranking out different (not better) versions fairly regularly, they remind me of the Hendrix family reissuing the Jimi Hendrix music every couple of years with a new mix of the same old material over and over again.
Why couldn't they just continue to sell a fully remastered, all the extras possible, 4:3 aspect ratio set of DVDs? I'd purchase a new set of 20th anniversary DVD's before I'd buy this BluRay crap.