Baronlando said:
It seems like directors and cinematographers are often lamenting how inconsistent or just wrong a lot of release prints were back in the day, and how frustrating it was to get the black/dark areas to look right and for every print to be uniform, or how they would fade quickly or start to turn weird looking after a long run, etc.
That is probably why some people saw the garbage mattes and some didn't, the brightness on some prints may have already been screwed up during the copying process.If that's the case, I think it stands to reason, that with ideal levels, the garbage mattes should not be visible and so they shouldn't also be visible on a properly done transfer. But I'd take garbage mattes over recomposited shots any day.
skyjedi2005 said:
Even on a properly calibrated tv on the 2004 they are embarrassingly noticeable at 480P just wait until they hit in 1080P, the bitchfest will commence i can almost guarantee it, unless Lucas convinces them its a part of his original vision, or a deliberate creative decision.
Garbage mattes are the type of artefact that won't be made any more visible by higher resolution (actually they aren't - we already have those 04 transfers in 1080p and the garbage mattes are about as visible as on the 04 DVDs). After all they were most obviously visible on early VHS transfers and that surely wasn't due to their high resolution ;-)