From the Hyperspace audio, his exact words during the Q&A were: "It was a chance to go back to George again and say, 'George, this might be a really good opportunity, if you're ever gonna let us do this, how about for the fans we release the original versions?' You know as well as I do what George thinks. And George thinks, especially for Star Wars, it wasn't the movie that he wanted to put out."
So yeah, Sansweet's basically saying that we're lucky these are being put out at all.