The Star Wars Holiday Special upconverted into 4K at 60FPS is even more surreal

Weird that up-coverted 4K does a better job of capturing what it looked like in 1978 (yes, I saw it then!), even though the original broadcast was low-res interlaced NTSC 29.97 fps. That 60 fps interpolation does a fantastic job of creating the video look that is lost in all the existing bootlegs. I don’t think it’s a good idea to apply the frame rate interpolation to the animated segments, though - that’ll spoil the look.

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