bkev said:

Grain is not as inherent to Star Wars as you think Skyjedi. Read through more of the thread. We've always seen transfers from beat-up, poorly mastered editions after all... right?

Grain is inherent to film and everything captured with it, as Star Wars was.

How finely and accurately that grain structure is resolved depends on how it is scanned (the quality of scanning equipment and the resolution it's scanned at,) the material you're sourcing it from (original camera negatives opposed to some other silly shit,) and how it's mastered/encoded/finalized/etc. Removing said grain inherent to the source is the polar opposite of being faithful to the original presentation.

All of the greatest modern film transfers are accurate to their original sources. They replicate (or attempt to) their original grain structures as faithfully as possible. The more DNR a presentation exhibits the more detail is ultimately lost (for those movies originally shot on film), there are no exceptions.