Negative 1 is still around? WHOA!!!

negative1 said:

as an experiment, if we take some of the raw 1080p ESB test transfers, and give them to 10 different people, we'll end up with 10 different takes on the restoration of it.. i can provide a short sample of 1-2 minutes, and see what you come up with...

I think that is only when you muddle the term "restoration". If you've paid attention to the last few pages, Chainsaw, Zombie, Gaffer, Harmy, myself, and others I am forgetting (sorry guys), all have pretty much the exact same idea in mind of what restoration actually is. Our goal, as the goal of any true restoration ought to be to bring it as close to the original as possible. It has always been that way, that is what restoration is. Maybe we would have slightly different variation on what we think would need to be done, if you gave a project to ten of us to do on our own, sure, our results would all probably look slightly different.

But not that much different considering our goal is the same. For the most part, we simply aren't in favor of adding escalators to the Roman Colosseum, so to speak. Throughout history it has only had stairs, and we are interested in experiencing it with stairs.

It is the people who want changes that are on the slippery slope of never having what they truly want. They have to debate and question how far is too far. Is Adywan's project too far? Are the 97 SEs too far? Would the SE be too far if it was exactly the same minus the added camp? In the version Frink, Xhonzi, S. Matt and others want, would there be the added windows on Bespin, or would the walls be left how they were in the originals? I've said it before, I rather like the windows. This is the point were ten different people will vary substantially. When it comes to flat out true preservation of the originals as close to how they were seen in theaters as possible, it is pretty clean cut with little room for variances