P.S. Shawshank Redemption special edition DVD comes out next week.

If you're looking for movies that are likely to get some kind of special edition treatment, just look for discs that were originally issued in nonanamorphic widescreen. With the 16x9 TV format starting to take hold, nonanamorphic transfers are unacceptable because they leave blank areas on the side AND black bars at the top and bottom. As more and more broadcast channels go to HD, the studios will have to do a HD transfer at some point. The HD transfers are increasingly what get used to create the anamorphic widescreen DVDs, and most of the early nonanamorphic widescreen DVDs were done with older masters used with VHS or Laserdisc editions.