Honestly, Empire has never looked better!:
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=17513638&postcount=69701
It really captures how the film looked back in 1980.
Holy cow, that’s a jump up. Beautiful… Be interesting to see how that’s improved upon.
The guy/people who did the the color grading for the original blu-ray should be shot.
I will definitely try to add grain to them - ideally real scanned 35mm grain, which I might even be able to extract
from Star Wars scans to keep it super-authentic.
That would be so good!
Re the HDR… it sucks anyway, as you can tell from Vincent’s video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGZmMjPJiAk
Probably best to wait n see what happens with the 50th anniversary release.