I didn't go there and badmouth the PT. George has a pretty good idea what people think of them.
He does seem to really dig how drastically a film can take an entirely different form in the editing room, so I think something like Balance may appeal to him more than something like a Phantom Edit, which I think he views more like something thats been 'edited for television'.
I'm doing DL dvds eventually.
I had held off hoping that the TPM reissue with the OT dvds would have a better transfer and the new digital Yoda added to it, so I wouldn't have to go back and add him later. Needless to say, it didn't happen. I'm also extending 1 scene in Balance.
CW is getting a tad more of an overhaul. There was a scene that I wanted to add before that I couldn't get to flow. I've long since got it to work. There's also a few little changes throughout. I really wish I had the lost 20 scene to put back in and the original homestead stuff with the skeletal Threepio being completed, but oh well...
With 3, I certainly didn't hate it as much as those who loathe it, nor love it as much as its most feverent supporters, but I thought it was fun. On the other hand, it was far from perfect. There are parts that could certainly use a lot of work... I'm also weighing things like if the Qui-Gon scene is not on the dvd, should I cut the reference altogether and the one in II, or finish the Qui-Gon scene myself. Either way, Qui-Gon already has a pivotal moment in my version of III... a case of advice once given taking a horrible turn for the worse in a different context... And there is a pretty powerful moment in the "scene that explains it all" involving the tragedy that was Count Dooku.
And as for the weak Birth of Vader scene... Darth who?
The only guy named Darth I remember seeing in Episode III was named Sidious.
Don't fret too much. The scene still has its place elsewhere in the grand scheme of things.