The whole look of ESB in 1980 is more blue-ish, and it is a flat grey on the OOT DVD's. I think ESB looks the worse of the 3 OOT movies, cause the colors are just so dull the whole movie. Check out the whole look of Hoth on the '04 DVD's, that is the true color of how Kersh shot in 1980, not fucking grey!!!
I'd have to borrow the 04 editions from my Dad to check this out. I remember it being blue....I'm just not sure it was AS BLUE as the 04 DVDs are.
Either way...I have a pretty burned in my head image of how Empire should look. I never realized I had been watching and ORIGINAL theater presentation of ESB until I came to this site and heard everyone talk about such things.
The thing I don't really remember was the official video releases in the 80s....were they accurate with their coloring and such? I bought the trilogy back in 92 and they pretty much matched what I had been watching all along, but my memory is fuzzy..plus I didn't look for such things back then.