rockin said:

Has anyone actually thought of recolour timing the 1997 SE versions ? They don't seem to suffer the crushed blacks as the 2004 SE, and the Flunk/Reivax and other broadcast sources seem pretty good quality wise to work with. If we could change the colour timing of those and then convert them to the theatrical versions (like Harmy has shown) we could be almost there.

Not saying this is the perfect solution (far from it) but certainly there would be more colour and detail to work with over some of the GOUT sources.

I don't know, I've just finally found and downloaded Reivax ANH to use for my project (I'm still missing the other two and really really need them :-( ) and while it does look like a proper DVD compared to GOUT and the colours are way better (e.g. the death star colours are really close to what the technicolor print shots show) it's DVNR'd to hell, worse than the GOUT in some places. In fact from what I have seen all the 97SE broadcasts have heavy DVNR smearing, so while they can be useful for other edits and should be preserved for completeness' sake, I don't think they would be a good main base for a whole edit.