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Post #729723

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Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda
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4K restoration on Star Wars
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27-Sep-2014, 12:07 AM

AntcuFaalb said:

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

While I understand (now) that the LD master was letterboxed, presumably that master was made from some earlier scan.  I'd also imagine that that scan was better resolution than letterboxed 4:3.

I'm pretty sure a fairly direct film->...->D-1 pipeline was used. The storage costs for a digital scan of a film at >NTSC resolution would have been massive in '92/93 and it still would have been on tape.

So if I understand you correctly, the letterboxed LD master was likely the highest resolution entity they had, other than the original film?