I also think that opening technically needs to be reworked... but that opening RotS battle on bluray finally convinced my girlfriend that our HDTV had been a good investment, something even Avatar hadn't been able to do.

It is visually stunning, which IS a common theme in Star Wars. It took the shoddy cgi and digital techniques used for AotC and (mostly) perfected them. It's hard to remember it now because everything is so overpopulated with cgi and modern effects techniques, but the PT really did push the limits of film-making to the same intensity that the OT did. (Ignore how annoying Jar jar is, and consider the breakthrough that he was). The PT simply lacked the storytelling that had been an equal part of the original package - otherwise this opening sequence would still be viewed as brilliant.