Yeah, there was never any doubt in my mind that Team Negative 1 had real prints - from the very first clip it was clear that they do. What was unclear until later, when they finally posted some HQ clips, was whether they have the technology to do a decent transfer of those prints - and as it turns out, they do - some of these shots I received have better detail than the BD - as discussed here.

@yoda-sama: I used two different methods - in the first two shots after Luke cuts himself free, I overlayed the 97SE over the footage and set its blending mode to color, thus giving the whole shot the colors of the 97SE. In the last shot, which looked kind of weird with very washed-out skintones in the 97SE, I rotoscoped the saber.