dark_jedi said:Cool that is what I will do, I really want people to look at this sample, I really like this ALOT! but I am also a fan of Terminator 2 Skynet Edition and the new Predator, they might have been overdone on the cleanup, but to me look FANTASTIC.

See, I think this is a big problem right here. The new Predator disc looks terrible. It doesn't look like a film, you lose all the fine detail, and everything has this fake, plasticy look. I had to track down the older Blu Ray on eBay.

There is nothing wrong with grain. I can understand wanting it to be reduced a bit, but you should never get rid of it entirely, especially when the side effect is that it takes away detail and highlights on a video source that is already in severe want of these things. This isn't how Star Wars, or any movie shot on film, ought to look. Don't be afraid of grain, look at a lot of Blu Rays of contemporary films like Sherlock Holms and you will see ample grain, that's just the way movies look, they don't look like a video game or like video because they aren't video; that super-clean, smooth "HD" look is something you only get in video sources and it's not a yardstick to measure quality by any means, it's just an element of the medium the images were created with.

Anyway, I've said my piece. This was the only problem I ever had with DJ's older transfers, and it was bad enough that I couldn't really watch them. The earlier screenshots of V3 looked like it reduced the grain but didn't eliminate it and I thought it was a good compromise, I'd hate to see this edition ruined by a lazy eye towards film preservation.