Thing is, it's not just ANH. Empire and Jedi have problems with sabers (especially Jedi) and contrast issues. It's Lowry's digital clean-up work that's at fault. It has to be. You can actually fix a lot of the scenes if you take a capture and manually adjust the brightness and contrast etc. Computers are good at some things, that's for sure, but they're not as good as a real person manually checking/correcting things. Just look at the Star Wars Legacy site for proof of that. If only they had put as much effort into it as Mike has.

I can't see Lucasfilm/Fox releasing a corrected set (not that I'd one anyway cause I live in the UK and bought the R1 release). It would cost them too much money and they'd lose face. It's much easier to deny the problems and piss off a relatively small number of people who have issues with the defects than it is to actually take a positive step towards fixing them. The whole thing makes a mockery of THX though, doesn't it? Quality assurance my arse!

I might write to Fox UK just to see if anyone there has the brain capacity to actually comprehend my grievences. I bet I just get a standard reply about 'no known issues', even though I have posted three lengthy articles that clearly show some of the defects. If things go well some of these things will soon be appearing in a well-known UK magazine - let's see them deny it then!