Jonno said:

RIJIR will have to give you an official answer, but considering the source material available - a large quantity of which still only exists as 4:3 letterboxed footage prepared for laserdisc - an HD version of the redux edit doesn't seem very worthwhile. I think meedermow wrung about as much quality out of this project as was possible when he upscaled it to 16:9 for the appendix release (RIJIR had edited in 4:3 originally).

All of the material I used for the Redux Workprint came from official DVDs. Since the quality of some of the material is obviously not from the original negatives the quality would never be considered HD by any means. Also since this edit was supposed to represent a "workprint" top-noch quality was not what I was going for. I did all the editing with DV files and those files still exist on something like 10 or 20 DVDs. I compressed those down to a manageable 3 1/2 GB for the DVD. So a higher quality master could be made. But it would never be HD without starting from scratch. And still the deleted footage has never been released in HD. So you would end up with a more dramatic switch when going to and from deleted scenes.