Lord__Vader said:

adywan said:

I used the 1080p master file that i used for the SE AVCHD and downscaled this to 480p.

Now unfortunately doing a HD version just won't work. Downscaling the 1080p colour corrected master to 720p still retains most of the detail, but upscaling the GOUT to 720p just really brings out just how bad the quality is when spliced in with 720p video. It just doesn't blend in at all. So the DVD version is all there will be, i'm afraid

Correct me if I'm wrong but IMHO as most people now have HDTVs, that means they will be watching this upscaled to HD anyway, only the quality of the upscale will be worse than if it was done in a computer. But I see your point, the LQ elements probably will stand out less, if the quality of the rest is also lower.

The problem is that his source is native HD for most the film, except for the OOT elements, which are SD Laserdisc, so its not the same as uprezing them both from the same standard, the way it would be if you took the 480 final DVD and uprezed it to 720, the film isn't on equal ground all the way through. Someone could take the DVD that currently exists and make an HD uprez, yes, but what was being discussed was using his actual source material, which is natively HD, and uprezing the GOUT patches so that the whole thing could be natively HD, if I understand it correctly. Instead, Adywan has done the opposite--the main source (an HD SE capture) has been downrezed to match the standard-def GOUT, because it is the only way to blur the inconsistencies between the two sources used. Shame, though. I think if he--or someone else--was really ambitious it could be done though. You would need to plug in some grain reduction and play around with the detail level, and treat more shots as VFX comps, but ESB was among the more subtle SE editions and I think it could be done, it would just require a lot more work.