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I did a more direct comparison between the Disney+ 4k streaming version and the Blu-ray of A New Hope last night. I will concede that the 4k transfer does have different color grading that is an improvement in some respects. The walls of Leia's spaceship are much more white than the Blu-ray...

Interesting. I didn't buy those DVDs because I already had the Laserdiscs and it seemed a worthless "upgrade."

Yes, I streamed in 4k. It's probably the HDR grade that makes everything so dark. It's a very underwhelming effort. The movie has no highlights that extend beyond SDR range. I did not try to stream in SDR, and I'm not sure if my Roku would even let me. I switched over to watch the Blu-ray of...

Did they actually do a new scan of that part, or just digitally paint out the words? I had assumed the latter.

I don't know about this comparison video. When I watched the Disney+ "Maclunkey" version of A New Hope on my screen, it was very dark and still had the heavy blue tint in the "white" ship corridors that this video claims was fixed. Countless parts of the movie still screamed of being a very old...

Saying that the transfers are "new scans" doesn't tell even a fraction of the story when it comes to Star Wars. The current versions of Episodes IV-VI were not created on film. The Original Camera Negatives for all three movies were conformed to the Special Editions cuts back in 1997. As far as...

I take it you haven't seen the 4k versions streaming on Disney+? They're sourced from the same problematic 1080p masters used on the old Blu-rays, just upscaled to 4k and given an HDR grade that's net effect is only to make the image much dimmer. (They aren't really HDR, because no highlights...