Are you ok Harmy?

I'm worried the Empire is coming. 

It's not paranoia if you are being followed... :)

hey Harmy, I read an article a few years ago about ultra high definition, which is set to replace HD in a few years time. This being the case, i was wondering if you would be willing to go back to the editing room and work on a UHD version of the despecialized editions (versions 3.0, I guess). This would obviously render the GOUT obsolete, as the resolution of those is well below UHD, and the lost footage will have to use the 35mm film prints exclusively as source, and teamnegative1 would have to use 8K scanners. I hope those are affordable by then. I'm not demanding anything, just thinking you should plan ahead and hopefully be ready if the time comes, you can do it.

There wouldn't be an UHD release of Star Wars unless there were a new remaster done, and that would be a whole new ball game.  Either new color problems, more "nnnnnnNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo"s, (who knows what else), or even an original version release, since they'd have to go back to the source elements to make the UHD remaster in the first place and George has given up control (how much influence he still has over the property is what remains to be seen).

Granted, Disney hasn't been great about putting out faithful original versions of things (Lion King, etc.), but a lot of their changes are to mask questionable content, so who knows how they'd handle the situation Star Wars is in (and Fox still has rights to Episode 4, which is another matter).

Oh, one question I have, if Lucas only had a 1080p master done, to which he made all his changes, what was he planning to use for the 3D theatrical release?  While I think the project has mostly been scrapped in favor of focusing on producing new movies, it still begs the question of whether he honestly intended to put out 1080p sourced footage to theaters...  Wouldn't that look awful?  And on that note, what kind of source did he use for the '97 theatrical release?  Since it was before the remaster, did he just slap some CGI on top of old film prints, I don't even know how that would all work at the time...  Did they scan it digitally at some resolution and add everything, then put it back on film at a quality worth projecting..... that was all done around '96, for reference Windows 95 had only recently come out... where did the CGI even come from?  Heck, how does Jurassic Park even exist, that was what, made in '92 released in '93?  Plotted on an Amiga Toaster and rendered on SGI Indigo running some form of Unix you say?...  then Toy Story came out in '95 using a Linux render farm, and Linux had only started just 4 years before that release, which is amazing feat of development...  *my brain is starting to hurt*   And even further more, Attack of the Clones was the first SW to be filmed all digitally, so I wonder exactly what resolution he filmed that at (it is not like he had RED cameras available to him), therefore limiting its maximum potential quality as the TV producers get more and more ultra fantastically high definitionally gimmicky....  Wait, where was I going with this?

For some reason I'd expected theaters would be getting much higher resolution content than what is available to us in a home video format...  Learn something every day.  But they're definitely using better projectors than I have, that much is certain, haha.

Interesting bit of relevant info I stumbled across:  "For Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith the more advanced Sony HDC-F950 was used, with higher resolution and better color reproduction than its predecessor. The film was cropped to a 2.35:1 aspect ratio from its native 16:9 frame. As a result only 817 of the 1080 vertical pixels were actually used."

So, they weren't even working with a full 1080 vertical lines on either digital prequel...  If anything, the Star Wars Saga being released on 4K isn't likely to be much of a concern for us.

4K is a marketing pipe dream that will never take off.

Having the OOT in 1080p is a huge win for us, let's not even bother focusing on 4K

Well, I'm all for a higher resolution display standard.  1080p is pretty weak if you want to use it as a monitor, for instance, and my 1080p projector has some fairly visible pixels if you get too close.  But 4K content definitely shouldn't be pushed as a standard, at least not any time soon, the storage or bandwidth problems that'd present are too great right now and offer very little benefit to warrant all those issues.

yoda-sama said:

Granted, Disney hasn't been great about putting out faithful original versions of things (Lion King, etc.), but a lot of their changes are to mask questionable content, so who knows how they'd handle the situation Star Wars is in (and Fox still has rights to Episode 4, which is another matter).

Disney didn't include the Special Edition Version of The Lion King on the 2011 Diamond Edition Blu-Ray. The Director's wanted to feature only the Original Theatrical Version from 1994 but of coarse with minor improvements to some of the animation and minor changes made to the some of the colors. In fact Co-Director Roger Allers said he intended to make some minor color changes. The morning report song was included as a special feature.

Even the 2010 Diamond Edition Blu-Ray of Beauty And The Beast contains all three versions of the film. The only drawback is the Work-In-Progress Version is a picture in picture presentation so if you want to watch it in full Anamorphic Widescreen you'd have to watch the DVD copy.

Disney seems to care about the preservation of classic films including all versions if a film happens to have more than one.