Not sure if you’re being intentionally thick but on the off chance you really didn’t understand the comment, let me explain - Team Negative 1 is creating a digitized version of 35mm film, just like the DCP of Star Wars TFA you saw in the cinema was a digitized version of 35mm (and 65mm) film, so if you’re expecting this project to be closer to the projection quality of 35mm than the DCP, you’re going to be disappointed, just like you must be disappointed with all Blu-Rays and other digital media.
“Intentionally thick”? What are you talking about? I know exactly what Team Negative 1 is doing, and anyone who got the impression that I don’t, didn’t properly read what I typed.
The problem with the image quality of TFA when I watched it at the theater was due to the digital projector. Had they projected that exact same DCP through e.g., a Barco 909 or Sony G90 CRT projector (or better yet, a pair of either one of them in unison) it would have had glorious image quality. Also, had they simply made a film print from the film source and used a film projector, it would have had glorious image quality. Even 100% native video looks better when transferred to film and shown through a film projector than if left in video format and shown through a digital projector, because film projectors are capable of better black levels than any digital projector due to film doing a better job of blocking the backlight for areas that are supposed to be black (and that outweighs the generational loss of transferring video to a film print in my opinion).
The best black levels come from CRT projectors though, because they aren’t backlit at all. The CRTs generate their own light (via energized red, green, and blue phosphors), and for blacks, the CRTs simply don’t generate any light for those areas. For an all black screen, the CRTs would simply be off, while with other forms of projection, the backlight is always on and something has to attempt to block the light for the black areas.
By the way, high quality, high resolution video (such as Blu-ray, or Team Negative 1’s digital scans from 35mm film prints) looks fantastic through a CRT projector, very film projector-like; potentially a bit better even (assuming the scan/encode is of high enough quality and resolution to be a ~faithful representation of the film print), because of the CRT projector’s better black levels.