There is no need to get nasty retard. I didn't take a condesending tone with you. Why don't you answer the question, do you prefer that the garbage mattess be left in the straight preservation version and if so why? Regardless of the fact that the dust is unitended, it takes SUBJECTIVE JUDGEMENT to fix it. Once that subjective judgement is applied to a transfer in any way, it should be tempered by common sense. Why would anyone want the garbage mattes left in? In order to finally see a version of this film without the garbage mattes, we will have to remove them ourselves or watch altered versions of X0 which have many other more subjective alterations. The bottom line is that the X0 project has the potential to be the Holy Grail of laserdisc transfers, why would you want the garbage mattes to ruin it's visual quality? They are clearly a very unique problem with the film, why should they not be treated as such? Everyone wants a version of these films with the garbage mattes removed, they are not like the highly debated issues such as the landspeeder blur, poor rotoscoping, blah blah blah. The X0 team is the greatest preservation team ever assembeled. If they don't fix them, they will never be fixed with the technical skill and untempered devotion to the OT that this exceptional team can provide.