unamochilla2 said:

What about the anamorphic footage seen in the "Empire of Dreams" documentary back in 2004? If I remember correctly, the footage presented seemed to be better quality (at least DVD quality) than the GOUT. If so, would that suggest there was a better quality source available back in 2006 when the GOUT was released?

Yes I remember that. I vividly recall being stunned when I saw Boba Fett fall into the beakless Sarlac Pit, amongst other things, since I expected some revisionist crap where Lucas would try to make it seem like all his SE garbage was there since the beginning. I've said it before and I'll say it again. I think that the original footage, maybe not the OCN but at least the IP, is in much better condition than we all think. I would imagine that they made a duplicate of the OCN before doing the SE, which if that was made around 1995 then it shouldn't be in bad shape now, especially not if it were stored correctly.