Joel said:

...In the early 2000s, the talk was that George didn't want to release the DVDs, he was waiting for all 6 movies to be released and then to release them on whatever high-def format prevailed at that time (source, anyone?). The choice to even release DVDs seemed like a giving-in to public pressure.

I remember reading that also during those years before the dvd's were released. Something about Lucas not liking dvd because it didn't support his thx audio?? I mainly remember thinking it was odd that dvd wasn't up to his standards but vhs was (weren't there even officially released vcd's overseas? THAT was acceptable, and not dvd??).

That's a neat story about your involvement with the dvds. Were the star wars scans used for the dvds (and apparently blu rays) stored there on standard def digit-betas? What an awesome sounding job you had!