adywan said:
iamweasel said:
I believe the original movies will never be available in larger formats. If they do, it wouldn't be worth to have them. To have good 4k/3D movies, you have to make the movie in these formats. And the original trilogy wasn't made that way.
The original unaltered trilogy was filmed on 35mm film which means it CAN be be rescanned and released in perfect 4k and even higher.
It's funny that the unaltered versions are the only Star Wars films that can ever be released in true 4k. The special editions and TPM, although these were shot on 35mm film, the effects work was only done @ 2k. TPM only has a digital master which was used for the blu-rays and was digitized at 2k. The other 2 prequels were shot on digital and are stuck at 1080p/2k forever. So much for George pushing technology. He has doomed his "perfect vision" to what will become an obsolete format, while the versions he wanted to bury are the only ones that survive the next generation.
Reading Adywan's information about the 35 mm film which was used in GOUT and reading again what I said, I think I need to rewrite to make it clear what I said.
Of course the original films can be released in 4k or higher resolutions, and that would be done (if they really want to do it) even if the 35 mm film couldn't support a 4k (or higher) resolution with the quality people would expect to find. Money is the word here, and we all know that they will milk that cow (GOUT) as much as they can.
But as I said before, I don't think it would be worth it. Converting a 2D movie to 3D isn't the same as shooting in 3D and we all know by now that they aren't good at enhancing the movies (they only make them worse). Maybe Disney would be able to do a better work than George did (they can't do worse than he did with the special editions), but I doubt that (Ok, if they hire Adywan and his friends I start to believe Disney will do a good work. :) ). And if they decide to release the same Blu-ray we bought in 4K... I don't believe the average consumer will want to buy *AGAIN* the same movies they already bought in VHS, than bought again in DVD, and bought one more time in BD. I know I wouldn't. Even if we believe that everyone in this forum will buy a blue tint special edition classic trilogy in 4 K, I believe they need more consumers to consider another release.