It's very nice and sort of unreal seeing these scenes after all these years, the ones from Empire are definitely the highlights IMO, especially liked Fisher and Hamill's scene in the medical center, damn how lovely young Fisher looked. Considering the often corny dialogue they had to work with I think Hamill, Ford and Fisher did a damn good job with the material they had to work with, the chemistry between those actors were a big part of why these films worked. I've always liked the performance of Garrick Hagon as Biggs in those Toshe Station - scenes, he really pull off that character and make him seem real even with a cape and sometimes silly dialogue, he did a great job. But I understand why all these scenes were cut, they're all nice on their own but they don't belong in the films, they did the right choice IMO.
I'm actually surprised they were presented in HiDef, that was really nice, but how ironic to have scenes cut from the movies presented in high definition but the actual films are still stuck in laserdisc resolution. Must be the first time in history of motion pictures something like that happen.