Learned the hardway that the German opening shot was updated differently for 2004/HD. This file shows the difference between German HD and BR:
http://noneinc.com/SWDIF/SWDIF_EarlyTests/SWDIF_480-Test_02-FirstShot.mp4
A US HD broadcast cap is available here showing that this is not a specifc BR change: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Complete-Comparison-of-Special-Edition-Visual-Changes/topic/11927/post/535009/#TopicPost535009
The different language crawls seem to be sliced into the film up to the first full screen white out explosion.