I’ll stand corrected on that. But honestly wouldn’t have expected that to be the go-to source.
Well, the broadcast sources look pretty good (at least, in the days where 35mm sources were rare they did compared to GOUT). There just aren’t a huge number of changes that it is useful for. The melted bars in ANH and Anakin’s Eyebrows come to mind as other 97SE sourced materials.
Presumably Lucasfilm started cropping those cockpit shots in the later half of the film, for the 97 release. And then they finished the job in 2004?