asterisk8 said:

(Does it take anyone else a long time after clicking "reply with quote" for the page to load? It's seems like it's always been very slow for me. Too slow to wait this time.)

iamweasel, why u trollin. You're at originaltrilogy.com arguing that it isn't worth restoring the OUT at 4K because a) it wouldn't look very good, and b) not enough people would buy it. Them's fightin words, son.

Scanning a 35mm film print for a 4K digital intermediate is not really anything like converting 2D to 3D. You think a film has to be shot in 4K to be 4K, and that also isn't true. Even though 35mm film is just shy of 4K, you have to scan the print at 8K to properly resolve the grain and produce an accurate 4K DI. The OUT would look fantastic given a proper 4K restoration, like the recent Lawrence of Arabia blu-ray. Enough people would buy it to make it worthwhile financially. And they could use some good will points heading into this sequel trilogy gamble.

But seriously, the ESB:R page is nowhere to bring this "not worth it" idea.

There's no trolling here. Maybe you should read again what I said. Of course it is worth for me, for you and for everyone here to have the OUT in every format we can think of. But it was not worth for George Lucas (and now maybe Disney) to have the OUT released in Blu-ray. And worth here means money, the only thing that they care. They don't have the love and care we have for these movies.

Do you think that they don't know that people that care for the OUT exists? Of course they do! They simply don't think there are enough of us out there to justify releasing the OUT in Blu-rays, 4k or whatever format they come up with.

Hell, if they cared for what we think here, they would not only released the OUT in blu-ray, but at this moment Adywan and his friends would be Disney's employees working on the definitive special edition of the entire Star Wars saga! :)