I just don’t get people who want to argue endlessly that it’s impossible to restore the original versions of the films and when I present them with dozens of screengrabs and video clips of the incredible fan restorations discussed at length here, they still try and act like I have no idea what I’m talking about. Some *sshat in a Star Wars group on facebook kept deflecting to every technicality he could possibly grasp at in order to discredit all of these amazing fan preservations and make his point that no suitable source material exists anywhere to ever produce any sort of passably high quality restoration of these films and that they were essentially lost forever. I explained to both of these people (there were 2 until I was blocked by the first one) that fan restorations of this nature, while not perfact, are still leaps and bounds better than any official laserdisc or DVD that Lucasfilm has released up to this point. If Lucasfilm themselves were ever to theoretically embark on an official restoration, they undoubtedly would have access to far superior source elements than we do. This dude kept claiming he’s worked in the industry so somehow that’s supposed to mean he automatically knows everything there is to know and I’m just some idiot. I stopped taking him seriously when he tried to compare the resolution of a laserdisc master to 35mm film and make some kind of aimless comparison that the official laserdisc was somehow superior in resolution to 4K77.

It blows my mind how anyone can watch a clip of 4K77 and not even be mildly impressed, or hilariously try to claim it’s an upscale of a laserdisc.