Joel said:

TServo2049 said:

OK, perhaps SW was scanned at 4K, but I thought digital intermediates were still at 2K? Correct me if I'm wrong here.

I seriously doubt it was scanned at 4K for the SE in 1996/97.

Snow White aside, I worked for Technicolor when the DVD masters were made and that was *right* when 4K was being widely adopted, around 2004. Also, if they already had a 4K scan of all three films why go back and pay for a new 1080 scan for the DVDs?

Agreed. In fact I believe that ILM was doing heavy R&D and built their own 2K scanners at the time. Truly groundbreaking accomplishments for its day, but as mverta has said, film scanning technology has come a long way since then. Which makes sense, considering it is nearing 20 years since the Special Editions have been put together.