Originally posted by: funnyname
But has it been tried? attempted? Couldn't you use whichever audio source you wanted for the most part and match that as well? (I mean going from the better to the "worse")

Yeah I've tried it, and for some scenes it kinda works OK, others it is just far too awful.
The audio is another problem altogether, whole chunks of the movie were re-scored to take the timing
differences and new scenes into account, and that is a real problem.

After doing some tests and seeing some of mebejedi's stuff, I am hopeful that we can make a 'less special' edition out of the DVD that will remove a lot of the really awful changes by:
1) Rotoscoping and painting out offending bits using the DVD as the main source
2) Cutting LD footage in where it might work (i.e. really short scenes with fast cuts
3) Getting pieces of frames from the SE SDTV German release an painting those into scenes.
4) Hopefully restoring some sequences or at least frames from film reels from 77 and the 97SE releases.

This will get us close to something that looks a lot more like the OT but you'll never turn it back into the complete OT by jamming bits form the LD release on there, the quality difference is just too great in many scenes.