Perhaps I am a little naive but… Dr. Dre, if you wanted to upscale 2.7 to 1080p with the last version of your super-resolution algorithm and make it match to the corrected and contrast-adjusted LPP, would it be long ?
If it’s quick, it could be the first 1080p version of Despecialized (“DREspecialized” ?) before Harmy’s release replacing remaining GOUT elements by SSE (unless Poita’s scan images are yet usable) and proposing a choice between Neverar’s technicolor mode and your LPP mode.
Maybe you’d be allowed to call it 2.99. 😉
I’m not dre, but I think this would be not quick at all and not really worth the time. Plus the upscaling process is about a month of dedicated CPU processing time from what I remember. And that power is better spent by dre on these new projects rather than upscaling a 720p image (I don’t think it would improve anyway). From a workflow perspective, it just doesn’t make sense to use an intensive upscaling process on something that is mostly present on the BD at 1080p, and the rest is soon to be redone anyway.
Dre is working with Harmy, as is Neverar on the manual correction side of things, to get the best possible looking version of Star Wars ever for 3.0. 2.7 is just to hold people over and round out the 2.x set.