I still contend that I was posting on topic in the original thread; as I was expressly about the X0 preservation.

Originally posted by: Laserman
If I didn’t see the glitches at normal playback speed, I wouldn’t fix them - I’m not bothering to fix any glitches I don’t see in normal playback.

What I mean, is that it wasn’t ever intended for customers to go through and fix the glitches frame by frame. In actual fact, it was never intended that customers fix them at all - but I chose to put it this way since this is the way in which you’re going about it. Of course you can see the problems at normal speed, as can I. I put it to you, though, that film colourization in essence was the process of making the movie appeal more to today’s audience; and that in essence cleaning the mattes and other technical flaws is also the process of making the movie appeal more to today’s audience. You may not feel it’s the same thing - the way Lucas may not feel that the Special Editions are the same either.

To put it simply, today’s audience is spoiled by newer movies with more advanced effects, using the latest technology. And the average cost of producing a Hollywood movie today is much much more than it was in 1977. But in 1977 viewers had never seen the effects we now have today, and so seeing problems like matte-lines were second-nature. Today though it would be considered below par if a film was made which had obvious black matte lines. Therefore it is now second-nature to think of older films which have these defects in them as being “below par”. I wonder if anyone will ever really be happy, if all they ever think about is this is how it was meant to be; and I wonder if the movie was really was “how it was meant to be” the first time, would it have been as grand a masterpiece as it is?