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Originally posted by: Spyder X
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Originally posted by: Obi-wonton
I found these links...here is a bunch of side by side pics comparing the New 2004 release to the SE's

nearly confinrmed DVD changes thread

and here's a link to the box set's complete artwork...pretty cool

artwork for boxset

The quality of those cleaned up shots (not the changed ones, just the ones with cleaned up picture quality) is making me drool. That's some extremely good quality.

If only the originals were included! Why did Lucas have to leave them out? Why, why, why? I'm seriously fighting the temptation to buy these DVDs. I must resist! They look so tempting. Really my only problem with them are that they're the new versions. The cleaned up quality, all those bonus features, etc. all make me want to get these. I wanna see the movies in ultra high quality (if only they were the originals!) and I wanna hear the commentaries for all of them and get to see all those extra features. But I'm still fighting against it. Somebody help me resist temptation!

I'm having the exact same problem Spyder. The digital cleanup and the surround sound is so tempting, but I have to keep telling myself, 'Why does it matter if these aren't the same films that I grew up with?' I honestly want to be able to accept these changes, I want to just nod and follow Lucas's every whim as if it's gospel, but I can't. It seems my dilemma is that I became a Star Wars fan in 1995-1996, when I was ten and eleven years old, just before the SE changes were made. My first complete viewing of the trilogy were the originals, and I feel I didn't have near enough time to enjoy the originals before they were completely screwed with. I'm just having to take resisting the new set one day (and one viewing of my bootlegs) at a time.

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Yeah but by that logic that fat Irish actor who was in the Jabba scene has been getting a raw deal since the beginning.

The difference is, Jimbo, that the Irishman was cut out of ANH before the film was released in theatres and way before Star Wars acquired such a huge following.