Alexrd said:

I have to give the trailer a small amount of credibility because it somehow has the "treated" TPM footage.

That's a good point, however the "corrected" TPM footage has been seen for years now, case in point it was used in the SW Concert tour of 2010.

My theory? TPM was never "corrected", rather the previous transfers were simply "uncorrected". In other words, this is from the actual DI. It's been there since 1999--this is how it looked in theatres, and it came from a DI. The video transfer from this was messed up from the beginning, possibly because it came from a print or some non-negative source (it certainly looks a bit on the rough side). So, a couple years ago they finally made an HD transfer from the DI itself, seen in SW Concert in 2010 and debuting on home video in the BD in 2011.

This would be consistent with the theory that the trailer guys are just using whatever video material had been floating around for a couple years on-site, and that if the OT was being worked on it probably wouldn't have been in any shape to show by winter 2010. However, this is also consistent with the theory that there is no work being done period, because the only "new" correction--to TPM--was actually already done long ago. Incidentally, while SW Concert featured the authentic TPM colouring, the OT still contained the same basic colouring of the 2004 masters.

But why are we giving a shit about correct colours for the SE in the first place? I hope the SE gets correct colouring the day the OOT gets a correct transfer, so at least some of the SE gushers can understand what it's like to have to watch a crappy version of a film you love when it's very easy to do it right. Maybe if SE lovers and OOT lovers could unite against the LFL quality control they'll wake up and realize what happens when you screw over your supporters and your customers.