What about the HD broadcasts i know they suffered from the same bad color timing. But they did not have the compression issue i believe had a sharper picture with more film grain in evidence.

Do the crushed blacks still exist on the HD. I figured it would be less a problem then on a DVD. Unless the master handed off to Lowry was fucked to begin with.

From what i heard ILM did their own in house color correction prior to handing over the masters to Lowry. These color timings supposedly were submitted for final approval to George Lucas and fit his exact instructions for the films. Lowry just did the cleanup process and that is what they were hired for. They digitally removed dirt and restored broken frames on the movies.

I think it has not been revealed but Lucas had an undisclosed company make scans of the 1997 altered o-negs of the trilogy and only in 1080P. This was most likely done before the age of 2k, 4k, or 6 k scanning.

They were either the negatives or the master created to print off the theatrical releases of the special editions.

These masters for the dvd were handed over to Lowry on hardrives stored in RGB format whatever that means. At least that is what i recall reading.

I also remember discussion from the X-0 Project on working in RGB colorspace. Does anyone know what this is. I googled RGB and apparently it is like the YCM of analog film but worked as data instead.