re: Star Wars restored theatrical version

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Is that the Harmy's despecialized version?

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No, and that was what got me interested in this way back when.

Harmy's despecialized version was an attempt to recreate the original, splicing things back together. Cuts from various versions, some upscaled, etc. And it's a great version, because it was pushing the orginal back to centerstage.

4K77 is a separate attempt, using 35mm Technicolor prints, all scanned natively at 4k and then formatted as such. It's the closest we can get, since the master film reels were not preserved well.

I did end up getting the DNR version (noise reduction), which removes a lot of the film grain, because that's what was recommended if you're going to view on a TV instead of a projection. It cleans it up. The 2.0 version is color-corrected and the maker says it's the final version of this effort. It's about as close as you can get to the original film. When you download it, the guy even says what to set your TV settings (and AV reciever settings etc) to, in order to not get things 'corrected' by your TV. It's meant to run on a 'blank' slate, and use the encoding provided.

I mentioned in the OP, your eye can tell things. I think that does apply here; when you look at things like the screen crawl, the logos, the text onscreen, colors are slightly different.
The blue text on 4K77 with

A long time ago in a galaxy far,
far away....
That actually brought chills to me. Call me crazy, but when I saw that (the upper right version), it triggered my memory and that "that's the correct one"