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Originally Posted by underscore
I know what it is, my point is what's the improvement really going to be in scanning it at UHD over HD when the source is still a grainy film with over 40 years of degradation on top?
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Because with a big TV, you will want the film to be scanned in at as high a resolution as possible. The last time the original film was transferred to home video was in 1993 at 480p (actually less since it's non-anamorphic, so really 360p). You can go ahead and let your TV take that 360p image and stretch out the pixels to fill your 2160p TV, but that will look really bad.
For Star Wars fans who want to watch the movies as they were originally released, we've had to count on fan creations since then. And home cinema has only become more capable since then. Before this, we had the 720p "DeSpecialized" editions. Those weren't the greatest though, since they were based on various home cinema transfers.. parts of it were from the DVD, some from the Laserdisc, some from VHS even, IIRC.
Now we have this original film transfer - available both with and without Digital Noise Reduction (to help get rid of the grain you were talking about).
For Star Wars fans and 4K fans, this is a huge thing. If you don't care about Star Wars and the Special Edition bullshit, I wouldn't expect you to care about this release. But don't dismiss it automatically. It's a pretty big thing for some people.
