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Making our own 35mm preservation--my crazy proposal
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8-Jul-2012, 8:02 PM

jero32 wrote: What's so "lost" about it? Yes they edited even more scenes. But it's not like theres no scenes at all that havent been edited.

Every pixel bit of the blu-ray has been modified.  These revisions/changes go beyond the re-editing of scenes or the updating of a special effect, the global appearance is noticeably different then what existed before.  That's why many people share Molly's opinion.

There is a version in progress working to de-specialize (deedit as you suggested) the movies.  You can get into that conversation here:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Harmys-STAR-WARS-Despecialized-Edition-HD-AVCHD-DVD9-and-NTSC-DVD5-AVAILABLE-see-1st-post/topic/12713/

The issues you bring up are not really a part of this thread, here's a suggestion where to take this type of issue:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Which-version-release-of-the-SW-movies-do-you-watch-and-why/topic/12446/

I am fascinated by this statement:

I think "ideally" we'd use this copy mostly for backup/archiving.