SamS said:
I had a chance to download and watch ANH and TESB.
Both were very good, the best I've seen as far as "untampered with" goes. For ANH, I could still see some aliasing. It is of course more noticeable in the early scenes, especially on C3PO and R2. The land speeder side grills also make this anomaly more obvious. Is there any source that doesn't have the aliasing burned into the image? I think correction efforts are still quite nice, and have reduced or eliminated 90% of it. ANH also has a fair amount of edge enhancement or halos around dark objects. Again, likely present on all non-altered sources. I no longer have the original LDs to compare against. It is also obvious where grain reduction occurs. Sometimes it appears a bit too heavy, such as on Vader during the first 5 minutes. In many other scenes it is used to good effect. Grain not eliminated, and plenty of detail still intact.
ESB looks even better, grain looks nice. Still some aliasing, but I based on the GOUT DVDs, it was never as bad as ANH ever was. The colors on TESB are good, but at times it does seem too dark, especially during the Han Solo carbonite scene.
I definitely don't want to come across as too critical. Far from it! I feel very fortunate to get to experience these, and truly appreciate all the hard work that went into them.
Great job on the sound! All the tracks I sampled were good. Absolutely no complaints there. Looking forward to uncompressed versions if/when we get the BD versions of these editions.
My playback path is OPPO BDP-95 through Denon AVP-A1HDCI(A) processor. My display is 60" Pioneer Elite Kuro PRO-151FD that is fully calibrated.
Thanks for the comments, but all that you mentioned is on the 06 DVD's and the LD's and even has some on the 1997 SE LD's, that is why I say over and over on the BD25 release that this Set is NOT for everyone, you will not be interested in it because the same flaws of the DVD do carry over, there is no miracle cure for these sources, it is what it is unfortunately, there is only so much filtering that can be done with this, which is to bad actually, of course I would like to make a perfect 1080P Blu-ray version of the Untouched Original Trilogy, but that is just not going to happen, not with what we have to work with, but I can live with my BD's until hopefully GL eventually restores and makes a proper release, hopefully.
Thanks again for the comments, you might want to check out Harmy's mostly de specialized versions, those might be more in what you are looking for.