rpvee said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PoHPTC_Bmo

Interview clips from D23 about TFA. But the OT clips used, while definitely not HD (and in fact are quite grainy), are definitely not the SE's from what I could tell from a quick watch. Interesting...

Good catch. While not something straight from Disney or Lucasfilm, so it isn't as telling, they usually only want approved SE footage used, so I am really not sure where Variety got these clips. What I will say, while not sharp and pretty grainy, it is obvious it is both non-SE and from an uncleaned film scan (with nicks, scratches, dirt and other damage).

No idea what the story is with this source, but I will say the color timing looks pretty darn good. Take the falcon cockpit at 1:07, interior at 1:10, and the cleaning/hologram scene at 1:23 seems to get things right in the background that I've complained about with Harmy's...

Well, I just put a comment on that video, go give it a "like" if you want to get our questions some attention.