You know what’s going to happen in the aftermath? Now you’ll have a few fan efforts using the new restorations to improve the special editions. Basically, the complete inverse of the situation up until now lol
That’s exactly what I’ve been thinking. The special editions have always been there, in HD, with more detail than any official or unofficial release of OUT, but that doesn’t mean they looked good. The 2004 release was scanned at a lamentable, primitive 1080p, with poorly saturated colors that didn’t necessarily look vibrant, bad graduates, and with fake grain. And the 2019 Special Edition, although in 4K with more detail and a cleaner image, looks washed out, especially with the very abusive DNR that eliminated many details, with that static digital fake grain, and almost monochromatic colors. It’s curious, they’ve always been the only high-definition versions of Star Wars used to reconstruct The OUT, but now that The OUT will be restored with a perfect procedure, a large budget, color references, and utmost care, we’re going to have the originals in the highest quality, and the SE is going to be the one that comes off badly this time because of the two previous releases.