The Aluminum Falcon said:

I think that some issues with the JSC were what was seen as incorrect color timing and a need to manually IVTC it.

Manual IVTC is always preferred if you want quality but yes, I have heard that those should be a real bitch to work on due to the often change in pulldown pattern, both d_j and arnie.d did a great job on those.

Darth Bizarro said:

Screen shots don't do this restoration justice. Watching this side by side with a GOUT transfer, this is way more watchable.

Of course, I've not been able to find a JSC transfer to compare it to :(

UPDATE: Burned and tested on my HDTV. This is now officially my go-to theatrical Star Wars.

I wouldn't call it a restoration but that's not a bad bit of praise you gave it. Is it really watchable on a HDTV? I cannot fully enjoy this one myself due to some wonky colors and contrast issues that bothers me but the positive feedback makes me even more willing to do an improved one later. :)

I definitely recommend you to check out arnie.d's "V8", it's still up on the newsgroup, I think there's also a single layer of it on demonoid but I do recommend the original authored one.