When I first got the GOUT DVD's, I absolutely loved them. I also only had a 27" 4x3 TV, and on that TV, they looked dated, yes, but perfectly servicable. We recently got a new 32" HDTV, and now....I don't love them. They look okay, I guess, but there's lots of noise on the image, ghosting, grain, not nearly enough fine detail, and the whole image is just soft. An anamorphic transfer, even without a lick of remastering would have fixed many of these problems. Zombie84 said it best; Lucasfilm held up a bold middle-finger to all the fans who campaigned for these DVD's for so long. Lucas could use the money in his pocket to pay for a remastering of these, and he's too much of a self-absorbed douche-bag to do so.