Tolvo, I am not answering for Mike, but my opinion is that this is the best representation of the first movie of the original trilogy that will be available. In my opinion it is a restoration and some of the restoration requires a lot of work to "recreate" the original because parts of it were lost like in the scroll at the beginning, but it still is the same as the original with the end product. Mike hasn't added anything new. Some of it just looks better than ever before. So, in summary, this is the OUT (first movie only at this point) in the best form it will ever probably look in my opinion.