Fang Zei said:

The same goes for matte lines, which they would not be cleaning up if we're talking a strict restoration here. That was a technological limitation of the time. It's not about making "the vast majority of fans" happy, it's about preserving the films as they were originally presented.

I hear you about the matte lines, but assuming they do a complete restoration, the original film will be "preserved" no matter what. The issue here is making the original versions of the films suitable for home video release. I do think there has to be a balance between what the die hard fans want (and for the record, I'm fine with the matte lines) and what people who just want to watch the film in HD in its original version at home...but with premium home video presentation. Like with the crawl, I think if we'd just had an HD of the OUT all along but with the matte lines removed, 99% of us would be OK with that.

Again, I'm not necessarily disagreeing with anyone who wants them to just leave well enough alone, but I also understand that Disney might have other considerations when putting this out on home video, and it is a bit of a balancing act.