CatBus said:
Danfun128 said:
So you are saying that all SE versions, even the 97se, have DVNR in them?
I'm not sure what Lowry did was technically DVNR, but yes, AFAIK it's baked into the film elements. That said, it's possible video releases have a varying amount of ADDITIONAL DVNR/DNR applied to them that is not baked in, so it's hard to say exactly how bad it is in the sources.
Do you have a source? According to sources I'm finding, the Lowry process was just used for the 2004 dvd:
http://savestarwars.com/specialeditionfail.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/3945149.stm
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Star-Wars-Trilogy-1997-Special-Edition-DVDs/post/412875/#TopicPost412875
And this quote: "In my mind, the most interesting panelist was film restoration expert John Lowry, who explained that even though the films had theoretically been restored for the 1997 special editions, the prints were in terrible condition, and that it was the most exhaustive (and, I think, exhausting) restoration process that his team had ever attempted."
http://www.dvdtalk.com/features/may_the_force_b.html