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Stinky-Dinkins wrote: These aren't being preserved for posterity,
The future generations who are alive after copyright expires on these films will be able to watch any preservation which exists at that time.
Hahaha, great. Wake me up in 100 years when the copyright expires.
He's not scanning Technicolor prints and he doesn't have access to the original negatives.... let alone the 4K scanner to feed the shit to. He doesn't have the capability to create a "definitive" version. His original Legacy version was already rendered obsolete by the BD release, which is why he's going back to create this second iteration. His newest preservation won't be relevant 10 years from now, let alone 100. Editing software and the hardware that implements it will have so vastly improved several years from now that something someone like Harmy can't dream of doing currently (because of hardware/software constraints) will be way, way easier to accomplish. I have more faith in Lucas releasing a "classic" version before any of this becomes relevant, to be honest.
If he doesn't plan on releasing them why does he never address what exact materials he's sourcing his holy grail of preservations from with anything resembling a shred of specificity? It's to maintain the illusion of unfathomable visual fidelity that none of us peons could ever hope to replicate. It's a fucking big fish story. This thread is seven years old, all it has to show of this project can be fit on floppy disk.