mverta said:

As for your absolute sense of color: don't trust it. Humans have an absolutely terrible memory for absolute color, and our perception system auto white-balances. This is why it's so dangerous to go "by eye" though we often have little choice.

Very true. I know this also since I've been calibrating TVs and monitors using a colorimeter. The human eye does not have much accuracy compared to that.

Anyway, I've been reading through this thread and it's nice to see that there's a restoration like this going on. Even though this won't be shared it will be nice to know that Star Wars is preserved in as good quality as possible. Maybe one day if George Lucas could "wake up", or when he is not alive anymore, things like this could surface for everyone to enjoy.