And why does everyone keep going back to the GOUT to “prove” that the footage is not upscaled or that it is all new? You really think that is the only source they have? Have you checked all the supplementary material over the years? But it’s also pretty obvious to see that, even with the lower quality compressed youtube vid, that all the film footage is lower quality than even some of the 16mm BTS footage they are showing in the trailer. It looks like older scanned footage they had already scanned from prints and not negatives.
Because the GOUT is all we officially have. I don’t want to speak on behalf of others, but when talking about new scans it means they seem to be new to us. Who cares what year they have actually scanned it, you don’t know it, we don’t know it. I think the main point people are making is that these shots seem to be from different sources than anything before while LFL has been giving us all kinds of excuses not having the originals, not wanting to scan or release them, and just trying to oppress them. Who believes what is a different story of course. The only thing that comes to mind is that Gareth Edwards said he saw the original film at LFL over 5 years ago, was it a 4K scan or something.
And you answered to yourself in the last sentence. It seems that way, so it’s something different than has been before. As in new to us coming from LFL.