To me the 2004 shot looks more natural here
The gout does have its colour problems so a lot of time i'm going to have to adjust the colour to make it look natural and match from shot to shot. I want the snow & ice to look natural and not an over blue mess as it is on the DVD's but not as grey as it does in a lot of shots on the GOUT. I'm thinking about digging out my old pre-THX video tapes to see what the colour is like on those
As for the skys the 2004 DVD's are so oversaturated that the sky colouring is totally un-natural, same thing that happened in ANH.
After doing ANH and now ESB i'm even more convinced that the blue tint was added to hide the restoration problems where some scenes are devoid of almost all colouring. Look at this shot on the Executor bridge. All colouring apart from blue is missing. No skin tones and no red lights anywhere can be seen on the 2004 DVD shot:
