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George Lucas... Yea, he can spend the time to put new scenes in, but he couldn't remaster the audio or the video. Some things of note (and I'm probably not the first to mention these):
1. The audio was inconsistent. At times it sounded muffled, other times it was clear as crystal.
2. During Obi-Wan and Darth Vader's lightsaber duel, for some reason there's a lot of green flashes. At furst I thought this was just the swords clashing, but A) why would a red sword and a blue sword create a bright green flash? Red and blue makes purple. B) sometimes it flashed when they were *just standing there and talking,* and furthermore sometimes it covered the characters--even when the backs of the characters obscured the lightsabers.
3. Now, George Lucas once mentioned that the Tie Fighters always have these "boxes" surrounding them. In fact those boxes were something which was supposed to have been cleaned up. But they're not only present on these DVDs, but they're EVEN CLEARER AND MORE VISIBLE than ever before--I never even knew they were there on my VHS tapes until Lucas mentioned them, here they look like force fields!
I'm no longer convinced this is about his "artistic vision" at all. If it was, Lucas would've bothered to correct these errors.
Already I know I won't be buying these DVDs. Maybe it's in his right to add new scenes to the films or alter existing ones, but there is no way I'm buying an obviously faulty product.