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Post #1304707

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CatBus
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Info: All Star Wars films released in 4K HDR on Disney Plus: 2019 SE with more changes
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12-Nov-2019, 4:28 PM

Danfun128 said:

So, if this is a completely new unreleased master that, additional changes aside, is objectively better than the 2004/2011 master, how will this affect the Despecialized editions and projects like it? Is Harmy going to cancel the 3.0 of ESB and ROTJ, and then do a 4.0 of all three movies based off these new masters (assuming they don’t appear in higher bitrate form on 4k Blu-ray or something in a year or two)?

That’s ultimately up to him, but they seem “better enough” to me to warrant the switch and do-over, even if he sticks to 1080p. Waiting for the UHD is also an option – and since he doesn’t have a whole hell of a lot of time anyway, he may end up waiting that long regardless.

The problem is that all kinds of minor new changes can have slipped in, based on how this was created (re-scanning the 97SE film elements, then re-doing the 2011SE changes over the top, and adding new inexplicable changes). The new color grade needs to be adjusted, even though it’s worlds better, and so on. Starting over using these sources would be a much bigger job than you may think.

IMO the DeEd’s are in a good enough space (well, except maybe Star Wars) where they can afford to wait. Being based on the Blu-ray (i.e. using negatives or IP’s as sources instead of projection prints), they still have the most fine detail of any preservation out there – even at 720p! – and the second two are very close to perfect already, save for the issues imported from the Blu-ray.