As most of you know by now, I'm relatively young in the grand scheme of Star Wars... er, sorry, the epic scope of Star Wars, being born nine years after Star Wars was first released. I was a fan for a little over a year before the special editions came out (but it seems like so much longer... but maybe that's because the SEs never replaced the originals for me, and I still watched the originals much more frequently). But whatever "mistakes" there were in scenes or special effects never bothered me. It wasn't until the 2004 release that I ever noticed the garbage mattes around TIE fighters in the first movie. Matte lines were obviously always there, but I'd never seen garbage mattes until then. Now I've gotten differing opinions on this before, so I figured I'd start a thread about this. This one goes out to guys like CO, Anchorhead, Obi Jeewhyen, and anybody else who saw Star Wars in theatres. Did the DVD technology finally present a clear enough image so that these were visible, or was this another example of the crappy color correction for this set? In other words, were garbage mattes visible in theatres?