timdiggerm said:

danny_boy said:

I actually have the priviledge of having watched them on a Sony 4K projector and it is brutal on optical composite effects shots/duplicate negative material.This is not the fault of the projector---it is merely accentuating the limitations of the technology used during the making of these films.

Limitations that were obscured by the photochemical analogue dulpication processes of the late 70's("less is more") when the film was running in theaters(be it 35 or 70mm) and also by the low resolution displays when these same films hit VHS/Beta/V2000/laserdisc aswell as (8mm and 16mm home movies).

And that is why, despite what some on this forum hope, we'll never get the OT released in HD with the original compositing.

Personally I hope that it does see the light of day on blu ray---BUT---be prepared to tolerate the quality differentials between those non effects and special effects footage(despite Lucas's attempts to eradicate this descrepancy by using intentionally degraded non special effects shots).

I was watching Raiders Of The Lost Ark Blu Ray on the Sony 4K the other day. There are a few ugly transitions(fades and dissolves and opticals) where you can clearly see the lower quality of the film material used for these scenes(e.g the maps showing Indy's plane travelling from Nepal to Egypt).

Watching Raiders in a theater in 1981 this degradation would have been "smoothed out " by the fact you were watching a 4th generation copy(where the entire film was relatively "soft")+ you also have to take into account that audiences of the time were not sensitive to these anomalies(a 4th generation 35/70mm print was still superior to TV broadcasts/VHS/Betamax of the same era after all!)---I should know----I was one of them!.