There is less than a minute of the film that is not in HD (not including the low quality Qui-gon shot). It is only when Sebulba is introduced to the crowd and when it cuts from the platform after they arrive on Coruscant to the apartment building. Aside from that everything appears to be available in the HDTV preservation of the DVD cut.
Actually, there is more differences than just one missing minute:
- several SFX were remade for the DVD and the BR (clouds are sharper in the sky, there is a new bridge near Naboo Palace, light reflects were added to windows, Tatooine night shots were lighted and recolorized…) : those changes already are on the HDTV preservation.
- some human extras were replaced by aliens in the Senat scene
- color where poorly regraded for the DVD - and the HDTV preservation (with too much red), and totally regraded for the BR
- Edge Enhancement was overused for the DVD - and the HDTV preservation (with visible halo artifact on several scenes), and Digital Noise Reduction was abusively used for the Blu-Ray
- changes have been made to the original mix
- there is about 5 missing frames on the LD, and 5 other missing frames on the DVD - and HDTV preservation
- not to mention that DVD and HDTV preservation are missing 15% of the image (which was too cropped)…
But hey, HDTV preservation is wonderful, Schorman did a piece of art.
The current HD TPM-reconstruction project I’m working on will fix all those changes between theatrical version and HDTV preservation (totally missing HD scenes are reconstructed with PanUP ™ process + frame by frame enhancement in Photoshop, original theatrical colors are back using MergeChroma() between LD and HD DVD + Vegas Color Matching plug-in, missing frames are added…). I’ll post about it as soon as the entire process is finished (and, hopefully, successful)