Rox64 said:
Hi, I just registered here to say thank you, Harmy, you were our only hope to see the theatrical, truly unaltered Star Wars, and now you're uploading a better release! You have said the old v1 release is laughably bad compared with this new release. Can you please take some screenshots of the film frames with the biggest difference in quality and reconstruction? My only problem with v1 was the GOUT shot you used on Mos Eisley right after the encounter between the heroes and four Stormtroopers, but you said you couldn't do anything better...
Sorry if this has been asked before, but how will we able to download this new release? By PM?
Harmy is using a completely different source for that shot, and it looks a lot better! Instead of using the GOUT which used an antiquidated noise reducing process to reduce grain - which subsequently blurs the image, he is using a clip taken from a Japanese Laserdisc that predates the process.
Also: keep in mind that shot always looked like crap, due to the generation loss of the optical effects.