Darth Mallwalker said:

TServo2049 said:

EDIT: Here's Starkiller/MeBeJedi, or at least this is the version I could find on
Usenet.
I'm confused by that statement, since there's two on usenet.
One is called MeBeJedi, the other called the Starkiller.
Which is that you're showing ?

TServo2049 said:
Does anybody at least have a copy of this bootleg without the macroblocking, or is this it?
Depending upon your answer to my previous question, try the other one?
Try the one which doesn't have bitrate allocated for LPCM soundtrack?
I'm just thinking out loud...

I didn't realize they were two different preservations - I've heard people refer to "Starkiller/MeBeJedi", but that may just have been blanket references to that cropped, mono mix bootleg transfer.

Mine must have been MeBeJedi, since it had the blocking. I purposely picked a frame that had as little of it as possible.

And BTW, the color looks different because I adjusted the hue, which is way off on the raw version, and turned down the saturation to try to counteract the chroma decay and make the remaining luma detail a little easier to see.

The TWC326 looks a little better, I'll have to download it and take a look myself. (I've been following this stuff since '97, but it's still amazing to think that this used to be the ONLY circulating copy of a pre-ANH version!)