mverta said:

To me, the quality of a restoration is always measured as the delta between a source and its presentation. "It looks good," is an arbitrary statement. The question is, "Does it look like it did?" Surely the Blade Runner restoration is very nice, minus the usual, unavoidable compression artifacts inherent in the medium. I mean, you can't get around that, anymore than an audio CD is simply no match for the studio masters. So from a "just watching it" standpoint, I love it. From a restoration standpoint? I have no idea - let's see the negative :)

_Mike

If you're talking about the original negative then it probably doesn't look like the Final Cut, mainly because it's not just a restoration and there's some very obvious changes present that are supposed to reflect the director's original vision (here's this argument again, heh). Like the blue-green tint, to name one example. It's a bit of a complex case and I was wondering how you feel about it considering what you're doing (and, more importantly, won't be doing) with Star Wars.