Well I said, actually that the drop is noticeable. To repeat, it's still a polished turd, just a better smelling one. The question is, what's more objectionable; A clean, hi-res transfer of the films with occasional second-long drops in quality, or a clean, hi-res transfer of the film where Han springboards off Jabba's tail, Han does the funky Chicita head bob thing ("Oh no she DI-INT!") to avoid crappy laserfire, Rontos scamper playfully to and fro causing hijinks and hilarity in Mos Eisley, to sample just a portion of the SE menu. So far, I think the drop in quality is more palatable to me.
Also, I'll make the plea here for someone with LD capture ability to make the bits and pieces available somehow. It would help enormously to have the raw captures instead of the compressed MPEG files to work with as well.