Originally posted by: lordjedi
Has anybody stopped to wonder why Lucasfilm, with the resources they had access to in 1993, would bother using a laserdisc rip when they probably have access to the digital masters? If Lucas is anything like me, I'm sure he didn't just make a master laserdisc and then throw away the uncompressed digital master. He probably saved the entire thing in extremely hi-res on servers somewhere. Wouldn't it be far easier to go back to that master than it would be to capture a laserdisc rip and then remaster that? Sure, that's what we fans do for our preservation edits, but that's all we have access to. I think it's a safe assumption that LFL has access to digital masters that can be used to make a very nice looking DVD.
This would also explain the whole 1993 comment. As has been said, it's not going to look as good as the 2004 DVDs because they're not going to have Lowry do any color correction on it. I imagine they'll take the digital master from 1993 and stick it on a DVD. And even if they don't, it can't look any worse than what we already have.
Has anybody stopped to wonder why Lucasfilm, with the resources they had access to in 1993, would bother using a laserdisc rip when they probably have access to the digital masters? If Lucas is anything like me, I'm sure he didn't just make a master laserdisc and then throw away the uncompressed digital master. He probably saved the entire thing in extremely hi-res on servers somewhere. Wouldn't it be far easier to go back to that master than it would be to capture a laserdisc rip and then remaster that? Sure, that's what we fans do for our preservation edits, but that's all we have access to. I think it's a safe assumption that LFL has access to digital masters that can be used to make a very nice looking DVD.
This would also explain the whole 1993 comment. As has been said, it's not going to look as good as the 2004 DVDs because they're not going to have Lowry do any color correction on it. I imagine they'll take the digital master from 1993 and stick it on a DVD. And even if they don't, it can't look any worse than what we already have.
That's EXACTLY what we're saying it will be - and people still have the nerve to bitch about that.
There's a saying where I come from that we would all do well to remember:
BEGGARS CAN'T BE CHOOSERS.