Dunedain said:
This is wonderful news, much thanks to negative1 and adywan!! :)

While it would be extra cool if these mods needed for the scan could be done to the newer scanner, I understand if can't be done that way (would these mods change the scanner permanently?). Full anamorphic DVD resolution is just fine! :) Or perhaps the scan would take place at a little higher than DVD res for the preservation/restoration work with the reference files, and then be brought back down to DVD video res specs for release after the work is done?

Imagine the GOUT with it's pre-1997 SE accurate colors, but with full DVD res and much better clarity, detail and general image quality! :)

Unfortunately it wouldn't be possible to use the new scanner. For this mod he is having to rip the old one apart and make some major modifications. Something i don't blame him not wanting to do to his very expensive new one.

I haven't any updates because i'm waiting to hear back from him as to how the mod is going. One thing though is that i'm not going to mislead you into thinking that this is 100% going ahead and will be done this year. In all likelihood it could take a year at least to get this done. If the mod to the scanner fails to work good enough then we are back to square one. Now there would be another option which would be using the film adapter for the new scanner. but this only takes up to 50 frames or so at a time so the print would have to be cut into 50 frame sections. As you can understand this would not be an option ever.

One thing i want to say though is that the guy who has the scanner and is doing the mod work will NOT be doing the scanning of the print. I will be handling that side of things. The less people that are involved with this the better.