The claim that ESB came out too blue because they were using better monitors is, frankly, laughable.
Ok stumbled upon this and found it... well... phunnie.
Now go get into your time machine.
Set the dial for January 12th, 1996, 3:00 am:
In article <30F54C9C.4...@pixar.com>, Hal Hickel <h...@pixar.com> wrote:
>Lisle Foote wrote:
>> >I recently purchased a copy of the new "remastered" Star Wars trilogy.
>> >I was suprised to see that during a number of special effects laden
>> >scenes a slight.................
(material deleted about seeing garbage mattes, and followup about tech
explanations)
I asked Tom Holman (former tech director of Lucafilm and TH of THX) about
seeing the garbage mattes on the THX Star Wars CLV laserdiscs. The topic
has been argued frequently in the laserdisc newsgroups. He did say that
you must calibrate your tv properly, especially for black level and
brightness. Even then, your TV's D.C. restoration characteristics may not
be good. He said that on their calibrated TV monitors, the garbage mattes
are not visible.
Now there are two of them! Pixar person continues:
Oh well; I think I still see some of them, even after
calibrating (AVS pluge). May be my DC restoration.
...am i'm not sure who's laughing now. <puts hands on head and rocks slowly>