1. Speaking about smaller audience: Do you really think, the SE or DVD changes brought the magic into the trilogy? No, it is there in the 77/80/83 theatrical versions. People went to those movies countless times and bought them as home videos, so people like these movies! Those unaltered movies...
Since most from the prequels is CGI, he always has the ability to re-render everything at 4K or 8K. We don't know about the quality of the textures but they could be upgraded as well. The real-live parts of the screen will not benefit from this though.
I agree. It has nothing todo with video treating color-space! Because the 2003 transfer [1080p] was done from the original negatives, the colors were fading and no reference anymore. A color correction was needed. Instead of taking the time for this and use the 2K SE digital interpositives as...
Thanks for the detailed report and asking the guys our questions! I am still worried because the 2004 OT DVDs were advertized the same from Lucasfilm:
[ http://www.lucasfilm.com/press/news/news20040420.html ] "Each film has been digitally restored - frame by frame - and remastered for the...