This move doesn't surprise me at all. After the GOUT fiasco, could we really expect him to give them a proper Blu-ray release? The new extras sound cool, and I'll probably give the extras disc a rent like the DVD set, but also like the DVD set, I have no intention of buying this.

I also agree about the reasoning. It was restored in 1996, and I'm sure a lot was digitized to overlay the new effects. Even without a full 4k scan of the original, all they'd have to do is the altered portions anyway. So I'm not swallowing that excuse. If a fan can cut the SE into the OOT, so can Lucas.

Chances are they will be the DVD copies. Complete with bad colors and all. Though I'm sure they're cooking up plenty more alterations to better align it with the Clone War era he seems to greatly prefer. Didn't someone mention awhile back that they'd actually caught some of the continuity errors they'd made in the SE, and planned to fix them. It's ridiculous how they keep changing them yet let those slide. The whole SE just reeks of half-assed rush jobs.