I was almost positive from the various LD transfers I've got that the transition starts in several places, vertically, across the whole image. I'll look again though. Yeah, when and if I get to Empire, McDiarmid HAS to go, as do the crappy new wampa shots...that's pretty far in the future for me though, dunno how the rest of you guys are getting on. I've almost finsihed getting the Reivax ANH DVD though, so I'm looking forward to seeing if any of it can be used to fix some of the DVD specific issues.