Thanks THX. Battle, what I'm recommending is a disc that'll make you happy and Lucas happy at the same time, while actually being a little bit educational about "changed" films. Very much like the Alien set and T2. But on steroids, 'cause, let's face it, Star Wars deserves a BETTER DVD treatment than Alien or T2, and a Blu-Ray will offer tons more room for audio options, even with the hi-def Video encoding.

What I'm curious about is, where is the line of tolerance for what cleanups would be acceptable to the O-OT portion of the disc? If removing garbage mattes meant otherwise getting the O-OT on disc, would that be acceptable? I assume it would to all but, say, 0.001% of the population, but who knows? It would certainly make the notion of seamless branching possible.