Ok, I have had a chance to look over the new discs, and I have to say it is a definate improvement. The greenish/blue tinge is gone and the color is more correct, the audio sounds noticeably better and not overdriven, and there is somewhat less noise and more detail evident. It isn't a huge jump in quality as the previous set was already great, but this version fixes the small problems like the gap in the Leia welding scene, the red shift caused by DV sampling, and other flaws. Skin tones are more orange than red now, but this was unavoidable from what I was told, but they still look good. I have posted a shot below, it isn't great but is a start for now. The black levels on the new set are actually less deep, but this allows more of the black detail to show through instead of looking like false contrast. If you look at the gun in the background you can see what I mean-the effect is more pronounced in other scenes. I turned the brightness down slightly on my TV and then it looked correct. The stars in the opening crawl are now clearly visible, whereas they were almost nonexistent in the prior set. The set is not finished so please do not ask me how to obtain them yet. Here are the stats on the new set:
Captured with a CLD 97 onto a PC Compressed with CCE Anamorphic 2.35:1 aspect 2 audio tracks-1536k PCM Stereo surround & commentary Motion menus with scene selection (forthcoming)