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The shot of Ben's hut appears on the LD as a field-bobbed freeze frame, which is why it looks so blocky - half the resolution is missing. I didn't find it too distracting, but then I knew it was coming.
When I watched the film I was more distracted by the sudden change in colour saturation that occurs twice, once in the strategy meeting on the Death Star, and again on Han and Chewie in the Death Star control room.
And those little line drops are irritating, if I get the same on the ESB and ROTJ discs I think I'll increase the detection strength of the descratch filter.
Your comments on the colour are interesting. I set the saturation objectively by viewing a couple of scenes with strong red lights in VirtualDub, and using the Color Tools plugin filter to make sure the signal strength did not exceed 110 IRE. (100 is the max at which theoretical clipping occurs, but a little extra is normally considered OK). So, assuming that I've got this right, and that the colour level is reasonably constant throughout (barring the sudden changes noted above) then this implies that the other version you are comparing it to is actually oversaturated.
Although saturation can be set objectively as described above, setting hue is more subjective. (There is that blue filter test you can do with some colour bars, but I don't have any colour bars on a PAL LD that I can test it with!) So I decided not to touch the hue setting, and leave it set dead centre, as any alteration would be applying my own subjective judgement to the transfer. Any red bias that exists is therefore a result of this default setting.