I must admit I've never seen the 2004 DVD version more than once in its entirety but when I'm now going through it side-by-side with the real director's cut to make adjustments to the aspect ratio I'm amazed by the high level of differences in it, the amount of digital manipulation is insane, the Special Editions of the Star Wars trilogy don't even come close to the tinkering that's been done on this.

I'm still amused by the title "The George Lucas Director's Cut", should that title suggest someone else was the director of the film earlier but it's now George Lucas who is the director? I mean wouldn't calling it "Director's Cut" be enough. Either it is a director's cut or it's not, maybe Lucas are trying to tell us that the young director is now replaced by an older much different Lucas. The title is so stupid on so many levels I cannot find words for it. :)

Anyway, the amount of warping on the print used for the Laserdisc makes it next to impossible to overlay it and match the DVD transfer, in doing so, I resized the '04 DVD from 720x480 to 704x480 so that I could make adjustments more accurately but it will never be perfect, but it will be much more accurate than just a straight resize to 16:9.