thedaner said:
timdiggerm said:
The logic doesn't follow, but I suppose it's a bit of a nod towards the fact that he knows what's going on in this end of the fan community.
I think it's also a nod to the fact that Robert Harris personally knows of a print in a existence that can be used for a BD version of the original Ep IV. He's offered to restore it himself, with no response from Lucasfilm (surprise surpise).
But would the quality be that good?---- I am assuming Robert Harris has a 35mm interpositive release print.
And I say this because when Superman The Movie was restored there was actually a section of the o-neg that was not really the o-neg!:
There was a big chunk that was a dupe negative section, when
Lex Luthor pulls the Kryptonite out of the case all the way until he pushes
Superman into the pool. The original cut negative had been damaged by some lab, and somewhere someone combined YCM separations to make the dupe section. The colors were slightly out of registration. We never did find the negative for that. There was a dupe section for all of that and then there was
damage in other places, torn frames, stuff like that which had been backed by
mylar They would put clear mylar on the back of the negative so that the tear
wouldn't pull any farther and it would hold the film together. "
http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/mohenryfanclub/message/298?l=1
Now when the restored film was released on DVD in 2001 and again in 2006 that section of the film where Lex throws Superman into the pool was seamless(in terms of granularity and color reproduction) with the scenes that preceded and followed it. The relative low resolution of DVD did not have the ability to capture this discrepancy.
But on the blu ray release you can see a definite increase in grain structure aswell as a slight shift in the colour pallette during this scene.
1080p is very unforgiving on these kinds of anomalies.
And that is from a dupe neg that was generated from YCM separations(spliced into the original negative).
I am just wondering if ROTJ is afflicted by a similar problem---(as has already been noted----when the Rebels land on Endor there is a drop in picture quality on the new Blu ray)----and maybe it's tracable to the camera negative(or a duped negative like the case for Superman The Movie).