Originally posted by: Go-Mer-Tonic
To him the SE -is- the high quality presentation of the classic trilogy.
The O-OT was put on there in the best quality he had on hand to represent the starting point from which the SE was created from, and to be sure, it's the best the O-OT has ever looked on a home video release to date.
To him the SE -is- the high quality presentation of the classic trilogy.
The O-OT was put on there in the best quality he had on hand to represent the starting point from which the SE was created from, and to be sure, it's the best the O-OT has ever looked on a home video release to date.
(emphasis mine)
The SE was not created from a 1993 video master of the trilogy. It was created from a restored negative that was begun, IIRC, in 1995. Most Lucas apologists claim this negative no longer exists and no duplicates of it were made (though why such carelessness is considered meat for apologism is beyond be). You can say the 1993 master "represents" the later restored negative, but that's kind of stretching things. It represents the narrative starting point for the SE, but not the filmic starting point (except insofar as both the SE negative and the 1993 video come from the same original source).