This is now my go-to version for "Empire Strikes Back" (until the new 35mm transfer comes out in the future).
It looks great, and again- when you watch something that doesn't look completely perfect, I think you actually get MORE involved with the story. It looks natural. he perfectly stabilized, zero-grain digital look these days is distracting.
The same thing with LP records- they are not pristine and digital like CDs- consequently they are much less distracting to listen to and you can actually get involved in the music.
Cold, digital clarity does not help you focus on the content- it draws attention to its perfectness.
Anyway, this looks great. Like with negative -1's sample clips, I love the hard light, high contrast look of this...most official DVD/Blu-Ray releases don't look like this esp. if they went back to the original negative.
So we will probably never see something that looks like this from Lucasfilm even if they do decide to release the OOT.
Thank you very much for this:)
-TM