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I'm going to go with Harmy's reconstructions. I greatly appreciate his efforts to give us an HD version of the Star Wars trilogy without forcing the special edition changes on us. On top of that, with his commitment to continually improving them as his skills and available sources improve, I can look at any of the flaws as temporary. With the low-quality original sources, we're stuck with whatever limitations were present in the original formats, along with any poor decisions made regarding colors, DVNR, etc. Sure, they're technically original, but with low-resolution, bad color timing, and ugly video artifacts, I don't know that I can really consider them more faithful. I'll take the lovingly crafted reconstruction over the phone-it-in telecine.
Like CatBus and many others, I'm hoping that the results of the Team Negative1 project give us the best of both worlds. In the meantime, even their incomplete work has been a great asset to Harmy's work.