Let me just repeat here, that I only keep the recomposited shots, because there is no higher quality version of the original available. If I could restore every single matte line, while keeping the high quality, I would do so without a second's hesitation.

I HATE digital recompositing, because it's sneaky, it creates an illusion of it being the original shot, while it's actually not what was achieved back then. The special FX are one of the most historically important parts of STAR WARS and with every matte line removed, the film loses some of it's historical value.

Nine-year-olds can do digital compositing on their computers today, there's nothing special about it but doing a good optical composite is a very difficult and time consuming process, so whenever a shot is recomposited digitally, it loses some of it's value and specialness and it is a disgrace to the people who spent hundreds of hours working on the original composites.