emanswfan said:

xxtelecine 7xx said:

why cap at 720p? no 1080p?

The current OT Bluray transfers only hold up to 720p, there is no detail loss between a 1080p and 720p using the outdated Lowry masters.

Also, the rendering times is greatly increased in 1080p when compared to 720p.

Furthermore, the revisited PT will require more drastic cropping to certain shots, as well as (maybe) integration of upscaled deleted scenes. So 720p, across the saga is better for consistentsy.

Not if you convert the source material to 4k and crop in 4k, this will preservative some detail. Down converting back to 1080p is a soft process.

People will wait days for a download of your edit but your concerned with processing time and encode time? (I am all about the quality here)

There is a hell of a difference between 720p and 1080p on my 160" projection system at home. (Native 1080p HD projector)

Quality is everything, and as much as ADYWAN's DVD version blew me away when I first watched it, (blu-ray) was right around the corner, it was difficult to watch on a 1080p screen. Now with rumors soon that a 6 films will be released on 4k, it just gives me the sense that in the end you might be redoing all of your hard work over again. Lets face it, 4K is very close to the actual resolution of 35mm film, and it is not going to get much better than that. (not to mention you can buy 4k video camera's to go along with this.

And who knows... maybe we will see a original star wars 1978 version on 4k sometime soon. (the sky will be the limit then...)