AntcuFaalb said:

moviefreakedmind said:

By the way, I've always interpreted Lucas' lie that the 1993 tape was the best available source as meaning that it was the only source that needed ZERO clean up. Even the best preserved IP would have needed some work put into it before releasing it. That's just my take though

Assuming that they didn't want to go back to film, the 1993 D-1s might have been all they had available at the time.

I know for certain that the D-1 tapes used for the JSC LD release were already in private hands by 2006.

Perhaps, because at that point they had made the jump to digital. If what Zombie (at least I think it was him) said about them spending the past few years scanning all of their material to digital is true then that means by 2006 the film elements of the OT were likely still in storage