I’d still argue Ady’s might look better. Disney and Lucasfilm has had a TERRIBLE track record of quality on home video releases and I’d be willing to bet money that 4K77 and Despecialized will still look miles better than an official release.
Aha, but a lot of the recent Disney 4K restorations have been consistently superb (Trons, Sound Of Music, Rocky Horror, etc.). The leaks for the unaltered OT look decent, although the screenshots I’ve seen look too compressed to really tell, I suppose. Still waits to be seen if they end up a mess, but… I would be cautious about placing bets so soon is my point.
I read that the current Special Edition 4Ks are what were prepared for the 3D George Lucas re-releases, which in turn were based off the 2011 Blu-rays that have lots of issues, as we all know. That’s why textures on everything look kinda gross and DNR heavy on the Disney 4Ks, it’s what George left them with. So this new Disney restoration could/should theoretically fix these issues. I saw they’re cleaning up individual layers of outerspace shots and whatnot, it seems impressive and hopefully faithful.
Obviously an enormous hassle for adywan (trying to keep things on topic). But it actually could be a worthwhile restoration down the road.