kenkraly2007 said:

Good point zombie84 and I don't think it will be the same mix that it was in 2004. Sound technolgy has improved a lot since 2004 because now their is lossless audio formats like dolby ture hd and dts hd master audio which was'nt around in 2004.

The problems with sound have nothing to do with the technologies available at the time. The sound released in 1977 was considerably better than the sound released in 2004.

Switching audio in the surround channels is an amateurish mistake that I myself rescued a project from once before... it was during an audio mix which I was assisting. I watched them place the wrong sounds into the rear L and R channels, and I kept telling them over and over they had it reversed, but they wouldn't listen. Luckily the producer had pretty good ears, and he kept saying something didn't sound right. He was asking them to fiddle with this, and fiddle with that... finally, I overstepped protocol and jumped in, insisting that they "humor me for one minute" and try reversing the rear channels. They rolled their eyes and tried it (to humor me). Bingo, the producer acknowledged that it fixed it. Amazingly, I had to explain to them afterwards, that if you have mics labeled L and R when you face one direction, then turn around 180 degrees, that L becomes R and R becomes L.

What's really hard to believe, though, is that such a thing can happen all the way through to a DVD release of friggin' Star Wars - it just goes to show how fundamentally screwed up the LFL/SW franchise has become. I can hardly imagine what sort of skewed QC processes must be in place for such a rudimentary mistake to happen in the presence of millions of dollars of the world's best technology and technical support. Having been to Skywalker Sound myself on numerous occasions, it's just unfathomable.