Kurgan said:

I'm frankly sick of hearing the "footage won't match the quality" excuse for not attempting it (newsflash: it NEVER will). That's never stopped any other fan edit that incorporates additional footage, heck that's what they did with the first X-Men movie on the official DVD. But if you must blend it, downgrading the rest is a great solution.

Why are you so sure the quality of the deleted scenes can't match the rest of the movie? Most of those can be cleaned up and color corrected and we have a lot of tallented people for such a task on this site. I am just saying that one particular scene cannot satisfyingly match the rest not because its picture quality (which is actually pretty good) but simply because it is a different shot.

This issue stopped me personally from attempting an extended edit of ANH, simply because I feel that this is the one scene that needs to be reincluded to make some of the rest work.

Of course if you are aiming for a old movie look, perhaps using GOUT as the main source, then it may still work, but that's simply not the kind of project I was interested in.