Ooops... (^^,)
Yes, the MPEG2 HDTV versions of the 2004 SE (that should be implicit, until we'll... cough cough... find the 1997 SE versions!) are very good indeed! Can't say it them, or the AVC versions, are better than Blu-ray (mine is still srinkwrapped, waiting to be used for a restoration, maybe...), but I think they are, at least according to many projects around using them as sources!