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I don't see much difference between a fan doing this and the director hacking away at it 20 years later. Both are re-imagining something quite different to the original, many years out and with tools not available at the time, I honestly don't see a difference apart from copyright ownership...

That would be Adywan: https://swrevisited.wordpress.com/tag/adywan/

It is still 720P.

I didn't know that, I thought it barely made a profit. What was its final gross?

Or you could just say you run a calibrated display :) I am a colorist, and saying that a BD release is calibrated "to a reference standard and use the Rec.709 colour gamut" doesn't really mean much at all. I can deliver a look that will have all the garbage mattes be very bright and visible, or...

I'm usually with Bill on things, but I'm just not sure the sales are there, especially when Fox picks up the $$ from distribution. I genuinely think that it wouldn't sell, just like the 3D versions of the prequels flopped. People think anything with Star Wars on it = instant money, but people...

I don't think that is true, most people have no idea how the old SciFi movies would look on BD if a straight transfer was done, without a ton of tweaking. I don't think it has ever been done. Even newer movies like The Matrix were completely changed for the BD releases.

Too true.

Well, that would be true, had Star Wars not already been released on Bluray, DVD, Laserdisc, VHD, CED, VHS, Beta, multiple, multiple times. That well has been drawn from so many times that it must be getting nearly dry. Had Blade Runner been milked so hard already, the box-set probably would...

Yes they were visible in the cinema. I screened the movie literally hundreds of times between 77 and 81, and you could see the garbage mattes in all prints. Faint, but clearly there.

The problem is that the extra resolution will make those matte-lines etc. stand out much more. But I'm with you, I just want a version without the new stuff that looks good on my projector.

What makes me say that, is that it is true :) Yes, the Lowry method was a bit of a hack-job in my opinion, the last part of my career was in film scanning, and the Lowry effort was substandard even for the time really. Yes, a better job could be done now, but that only reinforces the point I...

Nope. The BD was mastered from the Negative, the negative holds a shitload of detail that even the best prints do not, (and a lot of that detail is not meant to be seen), so there are many examples where the BD will have more detail. Yes, in theory the film holds more resolution than the BD...

I have recently seen a nearly pristine IB Tech of kthe 1977 release, as well as a good LPP of the 1977 release. I have also watched an LPP of Return of the Jedi on 35mm recently that had perfect colour, and was in very good shape. I have only ever seen one print of Empire Strikes Back that...

Actually, not true. I saw and screened Star Wars many, many times in 1977 & 1978 and the matte-lines around the tie-fighters were visible. People regularly debated what they were at the time, many thought the green shapes around them were their 'shields' whereas some local super8 film-makers...