Just wondered if anyone had any opinions on the 2003 DVD release of the Indiana Jones trilogy?(Thought about posting this in the “off topic” section, but I think it is more relevant in this section.)

I have the DVD set, not examined it in detail but I certainly had no complaints about the picture quality. And I’ve not seen any bad reviews on the 'net about these DVDs.

Lowry’s clean-up work on this film didn’t stop at removing dirt and scratches from the print, he went on to clean up dodgy special effects shots (e.g. removal of fringes caused by blue-screen photography, removal of the reflections in the safety glass in the Well of Souls).

Quote from The Indy Experience.com

… Lowry’s technicians take great care not to tamper with the content of the original image. “Rather than dealing with art, we tend to deal with science,” he says. “For example, we make very little, if any change to the contrast or color or things of that nature. We are not in the color-correction business, because that is an art. We can improve the overall quality of the picture, but generally speaking, we try to do it from a very scientific perspective. It is extremely important that we do everything we can not to impair what the director or cinematographer was trying to do in the first place.”

So why was the Star Wars DVD such a disaster? Why are some scenes so dark? Why are there so many problems with the colour timing as demonstrated by Mike Verta on his site?