It's particularly great to see the ice of Hoth look white again, and not the revisionist teal hue of the Blu-ray. The image is both clearer and sharper, with significantly improved color balance, more natural saturation, and a complete absence of garish digital video noise. To clear all doubt, this 4K remaster is undoubtedly the best that The Empire Strikes Back has ever looked on home video, demolishing the previous Blu-ray by practically every measure.
Unfortunately, that's not quite what we've got here. All things being equal The Empire Strikes Back should have a superior 4K transfer.
And with much less digital tinkering required for that re-release, it would seem that a higher proportion of the new digital intermediate heralds from first-generation, or re-composited film elements. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is presented in its original aspect ratio of 2.39:1, encoded with H.265 compression and finished with a static HDR-10 pass.Īs with A New Hope, the 2K Lowry Digital remasters created in 2004 have been totally junked, with this transfer coming from a newly assembled 4K digital intermediate from Reliance Media (as Lowry Digital is now known), representing a solid upgrade, along with new color timing.Īnecdotally, the film elements for The Empire Strikes Back were kept in much better shape than that which befell A New Hope such that it didn't require as much of an overhaul in time for the 1997 Special Edition version.
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