Harmy said:

Man, the older transfers are inferior in some technical things, because they're older transfers done in lower resolution but the 2004 transfer is inferior in terms of quality control - wrong colours, crushed blacks and so on. That's why Ady had to do extensive colour correction for his edit. The thing is that the 2004 transfer is now also an old transfer and an all new transfer should be made.

I think I stated in another thread that I personally prefer watching my original VHS tape from 82' for purely aesthetic and nostalgic reasons---but I am not going to deny that the 2004 DVD tears it to shreds in every sense from color to clarity.

I do have very good DVD rips of the 1993 laserdiscs and the general consensus seems to be that these are as close to the original theatrical prints as it has ever got for home video releases in terms of colour reproduction.

But they simply pale in comparison to the 2004 DVD.

That is why most reviewers reacted positively at the time of it's release:

The films look nothing short of fantastic: vastly better than you can have ever seen them before

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/3680820.stm

Why do you think they wrote that---because resolution and sharpness also count.

Quality control also encompasses those factors too.