jero32 wrote: What's so "lost" about it? Yes they edited even more scenes. But it's not like theres no scenes at all that havent been edited.
Every pixel bit of the blu-ray has been modified. These revisions/changes go beyond the re-editing of scenes or the updating of a special effect, the global appearance is noticeably different then what existed before. That's why many people share Molly's opinion.
There is a version in progress working to de-specialize (deedit as you suggested) the movies. You can get into that conversation here:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Harmys-STAR-WARS-Despecialized-Edition-HD-AVCHD-DVD9-and-NTSC-DVD5-AVAILABLE-see-1st-post/topic/12713/
The issues you bring up are not really a part of this thread, here's a suggestion where to take this type of issue:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Which-version-release-of-the-SW-movies-do-you-watch-and-why/topic/12446/
I am fascinated by this statement:
I think "ideally" we'd use this copy mostly for backup/archiving.