Here's the last thing I'll say about it.
From the beginning the goal of the project was to restore the films as much as possible to their original theatrical presentations in as high a quality as possible.
Painstaking work was put into fixing the myriad problems and changes the films have suffered over the years.
Some guesswork was required and was inevitable but until now there were no changes done to the films just on a whim.
Restraining ourselves from changing things just for our own tastes in our restoration efforts is what separates us from the Camerons and Lucases of the world.
I can just imagine what Lucas' reaction would be if he were to ever see this. He'd probably laugh and think to himself how even these people who claim they want the originals can't even help themselves from altering the films to their own liking.
To those that say, "oh you probably never would have even noticed it!" No one would have ever noticed the random changing of the color of the Saurian's shirts in the Mos Eisley Cantina if it hadn't been pointed out. Does it make that change okay since next to no one would have ever noticed it?
It's excessive cropping of the image and a loss of image information. To those that say, just crop it out yourself, that would entail an even bigger loss of image information. The shape of projector screens is not relevant in that the vast majority of the people who will ever watch these projects will do so on monitors and television sets. It wasn't done for technical reasons, just aesthetic ones.
It was a change for the sake of change and is antithetical to what a restoration project is all about.
