Brooks said:
I'm confused about this. The detail lost in the generational losses between the negative and the theatrical prints mean that a theatrical print scanned at 4k or higher would be equivalent in detail to the negative scanned at 1080p?
There are a lot of factors, but it could often be less than 1080p. For example, if the film uses a lot of opticals or composites... the Mos Eisley flyby is never gonna have 1080 lines of detail.