Yeah, that's the exact article I had in mind and sorry, they didn't do their own scans, here's what it says:
Since most of the menu work had to be created before the new transfers and digital restoration of the films themselves were completed, Ling's team had to do their own custom cleanup and degraining passes on the original high-definition transfer footage supplied for menu use.
It's stil quite possible that it was the same case with the 97SE footage in EoD though.