I sometimes wonder if it was more time or less than what Lowry was given 30 days,lol.

Talk about quality control for a DVD release.

I also read another discussion where it was remarked they had 3 weeks or less for the cleanup of the DVD footage, so either way its not enough time, and even then Lucas quality checked the footage personally and said nothing about the bad color timing, indeed they were his choices, even though he then went against the choice of having the Tantive IV corridor white again in Sith.

As far as I know the workflow was Lowry was given 1080p files of the three 1997 SE negs and they ran their cleanup on it (having to customise their software to work better at the low resolution) and were asked to turn it around in record time. I have no problem with their cleanup though I think they do have a tendency to overprocess things a bit. I'd like to have seen a wee bit more grain but the films *are* pretty fine grained anyway and maybe you just can't see it at DVD res or on low-bitrate HD broadcasts.

All the colour adjustments and vfx "fixes" were done in house at ILM according to Lucas's instructions and thus we ended up with a horrible mess with popping unstable, inconsistant color, crushed blacks and, most oddly of all a lack of contrast. How you crank up colour and crush down blacks and also reduce the overall contrast all at the same time is a mystery to me. It looks like your LCD panel's backlight has died or something when you watch them. Lowry did their part just great as far as I can tell. The blame is solely on George Lucas and his spineless yes-men.