I thought I heard someone say that Lucasfilm found/cleaned up a reel or something and were going to use that to make these OOT DVDs?
Also, couldn't they just go back and use the cleaned up reel from 1993 instead of the Laserdisk Master Tape?
From what I recall, the "Faces" box set was farely good. Color was clean, the blacks were blacks, and all that sort. We are bitching pretty hard about it not be anamorphic [optimism] but I don't think it is going to be that bad. [/optimism]
Also, since these are as original as original can be, does that mean that we are getting the original credit scrolls as well? I don't know what it is, but I can just tell that the SE and the 2004 DVDs have this weird aura about them that makes the credit scrolls look...well, not original. I've never been able to put my finger on it, but you can tell that they now look "updated." That they were actually generated by a computer and not...hand made, or whatever they did back then.
I'm hoping for original scrolls here. Complete with reel wobble, grain and everything.