Yeah but if it was filmed on 16mm, how much worse would a 16mm print be instead of the negative ?

And they were able to take the 16mm Jabba scene copy used in the special derived from 35mm and use it in the 1997 special edition, so it has to be possible.

Maybe not in HD but SD should be possible.

Or if Lucas is super cheap he can just use the old video master from the Japanese laserdisc, minus the subtitles if they are not a part of the master, otherwise he would have to use the unrestored vhs print video source.

Maybe i should be happy that the gout got ported over from a 1993 laserdisc master, if that did not exist i bet Lucas would have used the same one they had done for the old vhs releases in pan and scan,lol.