Harmy said:
We've been in a frequent PM contact but I'd like to thank You_Too publicly for these awesome corrections and for all his behind the scenes help with using them in my edit! And believe me, it was a lot of help and he's been great about it and I'm very grateful. :-)
Thank you! It feels great to help improve your awesome despecialized edition. :)
Harmy said:
Look at the blurry edges around Han and the obvious heavy DVNR applied. IIRC, they couldn't find the original elements for the scene when making the 97SE, so they used some dupe they dug out somewhere in the archives, so they had to scrub out a lot of grain to make it "fit" with the rest of the film and at this resolution, it shows pretty horribly. And even the 2004 Jabba looks really horrible. He looks like a f*cking oil painting in this picture :-/ Well, actually everything does, look at Han's hair!
Yeah, in my opinion that whole scene is like one big joke. Just the fact that Jabba doesn't look anything like in ROTJ, and then all that DVNR. Kinda funny actually by the way, I think my first thought when I saw this scene in 97 was "Jabba can move?" :) And the 97 Jabba looked way worse too.