Was it wrong when he re-dubbed Beru's voice? What if he had redubbed her voice before he released the film, would that make a difference?
My point here is that there were a lot of people who worked on a lot of stuff to bring these movies into reality. Along the way some of the stuff they came up with was discarded for various reasons (like the Luke/Friends on Tatooine scene for example).
Stuff like that happens all the time, to good honest artistic work in the process of making a movie. These artists were paid by Lucas, and that's why he gets to use what he wants and discard the rest for his final cut.
I see the point about the historic nature of these films and if it's really just a matter of pushing a button to make an anamorphic transfer happen, then I agree it would be selfish of him not to.
I'm just not ready to buy into the idea that he's lying about how difficult that would be.
I see people's points about potential motivation for lying here, but I think if he were really that adamant about it, he just wouldn't have released the O-OT again at all.