I don't see what the big deal is. This isn't about analyzing the glitch itself--the glitch is just a glitch. But its useful as a fingerprint that its the same HD master that was downconverted in 2004 for the DVD and shown on television in HD in years since then. That's significant, when there are all these apologists saying we'll have a new transfer and wait and see. Well, no, we can see now--it's the same master. That's why this is a big deal. It gets its own thread because the BD thread here is over 100 pages long and this piece of news has already gotten a bit buried over there.

So, this makes it visible for people wanting to know--new transfer or no new transfer? This glitch shows--no new transfer.

Now, I will also throw out there that not having a new transfer doesn't necessarily determine no improved colours. As other screencaps show, the colours have been subtly altered from the 2004 master to increase the brightness with a gamma boost from that original transfer. This creates its own set of problems, like boosting milking the mid-range out and you still don't recover detail that the crushed blacks never contained, so it's unfortunately not a particularly great solution, although the results seem to be an improvement. So, the colours aren't fixed, but they seem to be mildly improved.

Anyway, this is nothing more anal than anything else we do here. The BD release is a big deal and one of the biggest issues is whether Lucas did a new transfer or a new restoration. They didn't and this glitch shows it. If this is not a significant finding, then people can stop talking about "wait and see if its the same master" all the time.