doubleofive said:

skyjedi2005 said:

SilverWook said:

If that is the case, what was the big deal on the 1997 "restoration" with claims the films would be faded past the point of no return if they had not acted in time?

Because they chose to go back to the original camera negative, with no generation lost. Also using this source they needed to redo the opticals and had to find all those lucas had saved and recomp them.

I'll never understand how they had to go back to the original opticals and redo them, but still have the same garbage mattes and transparent elements...

Oooohhh... Busted!