Wow, this is incredible...I got to go up to the tractor beam with my surround engaged, will have to continue tomorrow.
This looks incredible, even the necessary GOUT shots for the most part, and when it gets to the really degraded ones like the Sandcrawler or the speeder force field, I get a knowing smile on my face that this is real and cobbled together by those who care deeply. (BTW that JSC shot of the speeder looks far better than I could have imagined-great job!)
The color timing is really different to experience after all these years of video masters, incorrect timing, SE, non-SE and all of our constant comparisons. I liked everything, but was surprised by the skin tones and texture. The Dune Sea and Ben's appearance was also far whiter than I had ever imagined.
I tried to stick with hh's new 5.1 70mm track but couldn't help it and had to listen to some of the other options as well (thank you so much for including all of them). Some of the lesser known dubs were new to me an very interesting to hear.
Something I did want to point out however. On the DVDTalk forum topic on the DE 2.0 that was posted earlier, this was stated:
I can tell you this, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts has an unfaded Technicolor-process print of Star Wars, and good condition 70mm prints of Empire and Jedi. And that place is full of film students who all undoubtedly loathe what Lucas has done to the films. Get those prints to this mysterious scanner and we'd have HD editions of the original cuts of all three films by the end of the year.
Damn. I sure got screwed on film school.