Originally posted by: THX
Thanks, Darth.

That makes me wonder...

If the dye-transfer print was used as color reference for the SE - could it be that the original (pre-video) color is closer to the '04 than the DC/GOUT?

That seems wrong, from memory, but memory (particularly color memory) is unreliable.

A horrible idea, I know, but...

In some ways it is, the film prints have much richer colours than the laserdisc versions, the saturation is much higher, but not up there with the 04 versions.

The colour cast certainly isn't there on the old films, the full frame laserblasts are totally clear on the film (i.e. white) and not blue like the 04.

So in laymans terms the saturation is more towards the 04 than say the definitive, but the actual colour hues are not.
If you bump the saturation on the SC up a few notches you are pretty close to the original films.