I grew up watching it on a pan and scan VHS and a fairly small sized TV screen, and I still loved it. I see what you are saying about how the low quality release hurts it, but the 04 DVDs don't look that bad do they? I have actually never even watched them all the way through, I never dreamed of purchasing them but I got curious one day, had a friend loan them to me and skimmed through them to all the new changes I had real about to see how bad they were. But since I only skipped to certain parts and spent no more than five minutes per film, I really didn't pay too much attention to the video quality. From what I hear kids love it with the cartoony new look.

Quality is nice, but I don't think it is all that necessary to enjoy a film. What it takes to enjoy it is appreciation of what it is, where it came from, and for who it was written. That is why I could enjoy 2001: A Space Oddysee just as well on a shiny new DVD as I could on an old VHS (if it is all I could get my hands on). That fact that my old Star Wars pan and scan VHS tapes look almost as good as the only DVD release they have gotten is pretty shameful though.

EDIT: And man are we off topic.