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Originally Posted by underscore
4k is great if you're starting from something high quality, but what's the point of 4k scans of something low quality? Taking a blurry image and scanning it at a higher and higher resolutions isn't going to make it less blurry. The DNR will help but it would help the SSE just as much.
Now that you have a copy of 4k77 try flipping between them and see if the non-DNR UHD looks any different from SSE in HD. It'd be great if it was an improvement over HD somehow but I'd like to know before committing another 130GB of storage to edits of SW. I've already got the SSE and despecialized and the ADM versions so the amount of space being used up by SW is starting to approach excessive lol.
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Dude these are the original prints, it's literally the highest quality of source that exists for a movie filmed in 1977. Even 4K isn't high enough to match what a native pixel-by-pixel scan would be (that would be something like "6K" probably, you can probably look it up.. something like 5400x3600) It's a bit dirty and very grainy, but as you saw in the video I posted, that is taken care of for the most part. After all, it would have been grainy in theatres in the 70's and 80's anyway (of course if you're watching it on a TV rather than projecting it, you'll want to get rid of some of the grain artificially, since most of it wouldn't show up there either)
The prints won't be any more "blurry" than they were in 1977.
DNR would help the SSE too of course, but SSE was scanned at 1080p, so only really suitable for 38" screens and below.
If you have a big TV or a projector, you'll want the highest resolution scans possible. Obviously projecting the original prints on a silver screen would be the best, but not many people have access to 35mm film projectors... Hell even most theatres don't have them anymore
If you're happy with SSE then good for you
All I'm saying is that the 4k77 isn't a total waste of time or storage space if you have a large TV or a projector, and want something as close to the original source as possible.