Hopefully these discs will be better than the fan preservations, being taken directly off the masters at least, and not a Laserdisc copy. Since it sounds like any hope for a release of the various sound mixes (mono, 35mm, 70mm) won't happen. Perhaps someone here could use these discs as a basis for a fan preservation release that would have these various sound mixes in them. On this note, as said before, the Dolby Surround 2.0 mix is great, but why not also include a 5.1 track based off the 6 channel maxtrixed mix? Is it that hard to do?
As said before, I'm now a bit worried about these releases, but its better than nothing, I guess. A boycott of these releases would not be productive, IMHO. It would only end in Lucasfilm coming back and saying that they were right, and nobody wants the O-OT, and everyone loves the changes, so giving the green light to more changes in a future blu-ray/HD-DVD release.