You’ve touched on some good points, Williarob.

Despite working on a color correction type project, I’m not terribly skilled at the process, though I’ve learned a lot along the way. I can absolutely relate to staring at the same thing for so long and getting lost in it, coming up with something I see as perfect. And then looking at it the next day and it is quite clearly terrible. I’m making large enough shifts towards colors that, generally, were present at another stage along other people’s color correction process. So I can bring some of that back out when I’m lucky.

But working from the blu-rays (and not simply to remove the magenta and fix the contrast, but get it looking properly like other sources), requires patience that I am quite impressed by.

And I, too, am probably less picky about color than many people here. While “A New Hope” looks quite awful, in its 2004 master, for many other films my eyes/brain adjust to them quite rapidly even if they are less than ideal. If we didn’t all do that to some degree, I doubt we would ever find a single film to be watchable. 😃 And I agree that there are cases where I either don’t see the difference as substantial, or don’t care. And then there are cases where it seems huge and one version looks very wrong.

And there is definitely always going to be a need for judgement calls, because complete accuracy is unattainable. But I think that striving for it anyway, as people in this thread have been, gets things on as close to the correct track as possible. Mike Verta will definitely have made some judgement calls based on what he thinks looks right, and he has said as much. Though no one can achieve perfection, I do not think that they need to with how good things are looking. If Disney ever does anywhere near as good a job as Dre, Neverar, or (presumably) Mike, I’ll be quite happily surprised with them.