Kurgan said:

In fact, instead of showing the exact same footage of the beam building up in the chamber (with operators shielding their eyes), I'd remove that and just show Tarkin and then the explosion as before (with the beams animating into position before it blows... subtle, without a complete repeat of the previous footage).

I love this idea, Kurgan.

Kurgan said:

Of course I'd really love to see someone restore the deleted ANH footage and come up with a cut that has the option to play the movie with those scenes interspersed back into the cut.

I don't know if they could be cleaned up enough not to drastically stand out though. Personally, I'd just love to have all of the available deleted scenes as simple extras.