Pericles77 wrote:

"We did not crush the blacks on Episode 4 or Episode 6 in the 2004 transfers. Some scenes are deliberately dark and dense (not the same thing), because of the director's creative intent."

Full thread here: http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=238224

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Moth3r wrote: I remember once reading some equally ridiculous explanation as to why there was a blue cast to the Tantive corridors.

For what it's worth, this is one of the few people who worked on a SW film and is willing to openly talk about what happened. There are now two releases with this color scheme, might as well listen and find out how/why it happened. Same thread from a later post about the 2004:

because the scans were already clipped -- i.e., slightly overexposed for video.