danny_boy said:
I am not trying to justify anything.
I want to see that hi-def OUT release as much as anyone.
But until that happens(if it ever does) I am more than content to watch it on VHS!(I can understand if a lot of people are not happy with this proposition)
Yeah, it's fine that you are more than content with your '82 Star Wars VHS even if the original film never gets released on a current video format, but that doesn't mean that maybe other Star Wars fans have been obsessed with pixels and picture quality for the last 17 years. It's 2014 now, the last time these films were released on video from a new telecine master was 21 years ago. You know, there's a reason this site was born. Your trolling is not even subtle. I wonder, will your children (if you have any or planning) also be content with that VHS of yours?
danny_boy said:
We also did that at ILM for the transfers of Star Wars and Jedi that I worked on, where they had prints up in the Stag Theater across the hall to use for comparison. At any moment, we could stop and say, "whoa, is that supposed to be green?" and then check the print.
http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/true-original-star-wars-trilogy-blu-rays-coming-in-2014-or-2015-from-disney.324294/page-6
That's pretty damn hilarious, it makes the 2004 color timing even worse, I thought they just threw the old timing out the window from the get-go... but, they actually referenced a print and came up with that candy colored mess! I guess what the idiot is describing there is the green colored lightsaber Luke is wielding aboard the Falcon. :) I know that there is common for some people that are color blind where the blue color can be confused with green, there are many instances in that timing when objects that should be green are blue and vice versa but this just cements the fact that the 2004 timing is one of the worst color timings I've seen applied to a major motion picture in the history of home video. Please just don't let him near a potential original trilogy release.
And yes, obviously those Senator screening photos cannot be trusted (but even those are more accurate than the 2004 timing). In any case, there's really no mystery about how the original Star Wars looked, there's tons of reference material out there, I own both fine LPP and IB technicolor print reference material and I know that many others on this forum do as well. Even private cinema screenings have been arranged just to see how it actually looks projected. And I can assure you that there's nothing really surprising about its colors, except for its beauty.