danny_boy said:

Just picked up the Blu ray set today.

I watched a New Hope first.

And it's hands down by far and away the best it has ever looked on home video.

I also have Blu rays for Close Encounters, A Bridge Too Far, Saturday Night Fever,The Deep and Smoky and the Bandit which are other films from 77'.

And this transfer for A New Hope blows each and every one of those away.

There is no way that you can say that the OT transfers blow the Close Encounters transfer away. Close Encounters has natural grain that hasn't been digitally scrubbed away, while the OT transfers grain is almost scrubbed out of existence and Lowrey's algorithm has the typical static grain plaguing the trilogy. And Close Encounters doesn't have the digital smearing that the OT does either. Colours in Close encounters looks the same as it always has done, yet the OT no longer resembles how the films ever looked. The OT has also had some extra sharpening added to it which is quite noticeable in parts

EDIT, i see that you added "in your opinion" after i typed this.