Originally posted by: adywan
The badge problem is due to the 2004 DVD transfer. It is really washed out in that one too. I tried boosting the orange colour but it looked a mess so i left the colour for the badge alone. As you can see here some of the colour is missing on the badge on the 2004 DVD so there was not a lot i could do about it. The saturation wasn't touched for the badge and remains the same as it is in the 2004 DVD. It just shows what a mess the colouring of the official DVD was. And you've just got to love the guy's purple uniform in the official DVD.

Those badges are sort of a pet peeve of mine, but this is very anal of me and I don't expect anyone else to care about this. But I've recently grown very annoyed with the rank badge system in ANH. It seems totally random with a confusing mix of red, blue and yellow squares. Tarkin is the only one that seems to have a somewhat proper insignia.

Fast forward to The Empire Strikes Back: a new and much more logical system has now been concieved. If one is familiar with how the insignias work, it is then very simple to look at Piett and know that he is a captain (at the beginning) becaue he has a rank badge with 6 rank squares and 1 rank cylinder. Veers is also easily distincgushed a major general, Ozzel as a fleet admiral, etc. My personal fantasy would be to replace the ANH badges with ESB style ones, because those in ANH are confusing and kind of look more like toys (can't explain it, just a feeling). At least, if there is any sort of exact system to the ANh rank badge system, I'm not seeing it. Unfortuantely I came in way to late to this thread to suggest this. But as I say, I doubt many people acre or even notice this minor thing anyway. I guess it's just the neurotic in me speaking