The 35mm print I saw of AOTC was pretty washed out in places. It looked like a bad video to film transfer especially around the Count Dooku bike chase. Perhaps there were some bugs to be worked out making acceptable prints from the digital source.
Did anyone see the cut down IMAX version back then?
Wasn’t it mentioned a while back that George deliberately degraded the quality of the 35mm prints to make the digital presentation look superior?
I’ve suspected it, but no way to prove it. I saw more than one 35mm ROTS print and there were no visual issues.