Nah, in that galaxy between the jedi order stifling any independent and critical thought and the senate taxing anything that did work until it was unprofitable, it’s no wonder that the best holovid they could manage is as good as we could do now.
Seriously, why, 1000 years after they defeated the Sith, were the Jedi still running around on urgent missions and knocking on doors to find people? Thanks to them the galaxy hadn’t even managed to develop cell phones and freedom is hard to extinguish.