Been very busy with work related stuff this week so I wasn't able to get any of them up during the week but I finally have some free time to myself this weekend. The Star Wars Semi-Specialised Edition is indeed coming out tomorrow, thank you Doombot, Hal 9000 and kane1138 for letting me know that you prefer the brighter settings, thats what i've gone with.

I was in two minds about the black levels so I have actually created two encodes for Star Wars that I plan to release, one using the exact same settings as the latest clips I posted and an encode with slightly reduced brightness.

I believe the first settings are more accurate in terms of brightness to how Star Wars looked in the cinema when it came out but the blacks in certain scenes are a bit too bright for modern sensibilities watching on a TV screen IMHO, it makes for unconfortable viewing until your eyes adjust. I'll probably call this one the Star Wars Semi-Specialised Cinema Edition and will be a one off for Star Wars only.

The second settings conforms more to modern expectations of black levels and in that sense has much better continuety with the black levels of the second and third film's Semi-Specialised Editions. This is the version I expect most people will prefer and it'll be the Star Wars Semi-Specialised Retro Edition that will be followed by the ESB and ROTJ Retro releases.

I'm also almost finished with the settings of The Empire Strikes Back Semi-Specialised Retro Edition, so that should be coming out in the next few days as well.