ElectricTriangle said:
That was the whole "Lowery process," wasn't it? DNR the whole thing and then regrain it to hide the fact that there is less detail.
More or less--but this Lowryization is "baked" into the SE. There are no SE source elements without it--so I'm not surprised projection prints of the original films can look better than the best "Lucasfilm vault" footage available of the Special Editions, and thank goodness (and -1) for that!