Skimmed through the Empire '97 SE LD yesterday which I hadn't seen in a very long time to see if any DVNR was present and unfortunately I can confirm that it was, clearly noticed it on the scenes on Dagobah and Cloud City, the exact same nasty artifact seen on Vader's blade in the GOUT (see here: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Whats-missing-from-GOUT/post/463309/#TopicPost463309) was also present on this transfer. It's quite amazing that they didn't learn from their previous mistake just a few years earlier, but then again DVNR is still going strong albeit in a slightly more sophisticated way.