DVD-BOY said:

I knew there was a reason I just read here and keep my mouth shut - when the worst comes out of this community it's like a gang of whining armchair quaterbacks who don't have a clue how 'the real world' works.

As far as the technical points you make, I agree that mistakes like this do happen in other releases. I once averted a reversed-rear-channel error myself in the studio because the folks were mixing it head on and then just forgot to flip them when they moved them to the rear. Your point of LFL saying it's a "creative decision" rather than throwing someone under the bus is well taken. And I've seen for myself how difficult it is to get a good white balance on an ESB scan because of the nature of the scenes. The humdinger glitch is a non-issue and I would guess many releases have such transitory flaws.

But the changes that LFL is doing to SW is not at all "how the real world works". Changing the films so radically and then not restoring the theatrical versions is very unusual for a motion picture of this importance. Releasing a non-anamorphic laserdisc master is also not at all customary for a movie with such a significant theatrical impact, especially for a company with the kind of resources and capital that LFL has.