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Post #1332563

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captainsolo
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Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga 4k UHD -- 27 DISC Boxed Set -- 3/31/2020
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Date created
1-Apr-2020, 6:43 PM

This sounds like a mess and yet another overstuffed box of nothing with a new version that’s two steps forward 10 backward. The prequel digital origins of AOTC and ROTS means it’s an upscale of an upscale. They haven’t even done new work on those and everyone involved seems happy to always utilize older flawed materials even if there has been 4K work done as happened on the OT. TPM is stuck in a film/early digital no man’s land and has been treated appallingly. This should look as good as a 90’s film with early CG sequences for the majority of the feature run time and then a properly managed hybrid for the digital heavy scenes.
Ultimately these new discs will only highlight the flaws even further.

I hope the audio is better in terms of mix for everything but I’m sure it’s even worse than the 2011 6.1 tracks as each and every release is plain bad post 97SE.

The best is yet to come since we now have the disc versions of what we’ve been pouring over on D+. If these are indeed from new fully 4K materials then the ability is there to reconstruct the OOT-but no one has put the money down and bitten the bullet to do so.

However if it were me in charge I’d say forget all of that and start COMPLETELY from scratch to ensure every single step is done right. There’s no telling what could have been glossed over in the process and there needs to be professional outside restoration professionals in charge of accuracy.