Just doing the comps digitally instead of optically, getting rid of the matte lines, colouring in the sabres where required and fixing bad jump cuts with the sabres and the dodgy camera shakes etc. Even removing the cardboard people at the end.
All of this I would have welcomed, it would have made the films far more watchable, but unchanged as far as the story, drama and overall look of the film were concerned. If anyone wanted to see the glitches as an example of how 70s technology was limiting, then the laserdiscs or a release of the OUT like we are now getting easily fills that role.
But dressing them up to be a late 90's style film is just jarring, (especially when so many of the crappy glitches aren't fixed anyway!) but even that would have been OK if a proper version of the OUT was released on DVD.
It is soooo frustrating that they claim it can't be done, when the actual amount of scenes that need to be put back in to satisfy 90% of fans is really small.
Could they really not put the original greedo scene back in? They had to restore those elements to create the new scene.
Could they really not just leave out the Jabba scene in ANH, or the rontos, or the hovering crapodroids around the stormtroopers.
Creating an 'almost' original release of ANH would be so so easy for them, it drives me nuts that they won't do it, and won't release the elements at a decent rez to allow others to do it.
I'm eagerly awaiting to see how the PAL release of the OUT comes out, but am determined that a glitch free version of ANH will be done, and if Lucasfilm won't step up to the plate....