Feallan said:

jdryyz said:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/05/could-disney-finally-give-us-the-remastered-unedited-star-wars-we-want/

Could Disney, in theory, clean up OT negatives, scan them in 4K, 8K or whatever and then just put it in storage for foreseeable future?

They have already been scanned. Look at the changed scenes in the SE. Most of them are based on a scan of the OT, with SE crap *added*.

So Lucas was being a bit misleading, at the very least, the elements had been scanned prior to the real restoration work happening.