adywan said:
iamweasel said:
I believe the original movies will never be available in larger formats. If they do, it wouldn't be worth to have them. To have good 4k/3D movies, you have to make the movie in these formats. And the original trilogy wasn't made that way.
The original unaltered trilogy was filmed on 35mm film which means it CAN be be rescanned and released in perfect 4k and even higher.
It's funny that the unaltered versions are the only Star Wars films that can ever be released in true 4k. The special editions and TPM, although these were shot on 35mm film, the effects work was only done @ 2k. TPM only has a digital master which was used for the blu-rays and was digitized at 2k. The other 2 prequels were shot on digital and are stuck at 1080p/2k forever. So much for George pushing technology. He has doomed his "perfect vision" to what will become an obsolete format, while the versions he wanted to bury are the only ones that survive the next generation.
Who knows, maybe a technology will come along that can do a decent job of up-converting stuff. (doubtful) Thing is, the visual information required for anything close to 35MM simply isn't there at all.
Such a shame. Preservation aside, the PT would have at least looked better at 35mm. TPM is the only one visually close due to it being the last entry shot 35mm. I didn't know about the effects work being done only @ 2k. I always wondered why all the CG didn't blend or was spotty but I just chalked it up to being an older movie.