What makes it even more shameful that these horrible mistakes (inconsistent color timings, unremoved garbage mattes, broken lightsabers as a result of the cleaning process and the fucked up musical score and inconsequent reassembly of the entire fauley track in ANH) are being sold to the public as "deliberate artistic decisions" applied to the films.
I'm somehow astonished so many people think that this DVD set is great. I mean, even if I was a fan of every change and added special effect, I would still be terribly pissed by the poor quality of presentation - especially since there was no true reason to rush the release of this thing - in my opinion a december release would have not only resulted in even better sales-figures but also in a far better product. It's sad to see Van Ling's talent wasted on DVD menus for such a poor quality set.
Needless to say that my vote goes to the Special Editions of 1997.