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I think at this point it would actually help to have George Lucas make more changes to the films. That way, at least the color will have to be fixed and many people who fell in love with the first special edition will get upset at seeing the versions they grew up with discarded. I hope he adds even more stupid stuff to the films and alienates even more fans.
By the way what else has Lowry Digital worked on? I thought they did a great job with Cinderella (Disney) but I've seen comparisons (at dvd beaver) for the new Bond dvd's and I'm not that impressed. Even the ones that weren't foolishly cropped. It just looks like Lowry loves to add a blue tint to every film and when it has a lot of noise, just add an advanced blur to remove all grain and any sense of film texture as well.
Their first film was Citizen Kane. Their software was primitive and it was a learning experience, as they not only got the film looking pristine, it looked TOO pristine--they erased the grain, making it almost like video in some instances. They also did the Indiana Jones trilogy and the THX directors cut, both of which look fantastic, before doing Star Wars. Not sure about colouring issues--I don't believe Lowry has anything to do with the colouring, that is the job of the telecine colourist, Lowry just does the image clean-up. In the case of Star Wars the fucked up colouring definitly was a Lucasfilm thing.