There were lots of complaints for lots of reasons issued via PM's that we did not see in this thread, many of which were just "guesses" about how to improve the scene without actually having access to the reference frames. I certainly know I made an attempt myself, which apparently directly contradicted someone else's attempt. To me, the brightened scenes just don't look quite right in 2.0--but not having the reference, I can't say definitively what's wrong with them, and I defer to Harmy.

But I do have a bias: I'm in favor of abandoning IB fidelity whenever the IB exposure was clearly off--which would make it something other than a theatrical reconstruction. Harmy's goal is IB fidelity all the way through.

Oh yeah, and Harmy--do you have any insight into whether you're going to be able to get a lossless audio track from hairy_hen for this? I fear from his extended silence that he may not make your Christmas deadline.