towne32 said:

And most of all, they'll tell us that there's no way to see the original in HD, because the negatives were destroyed in order to produce the SE. I think that's the single most effective mistruth that Lucas spun on the matter.

The negatives were changed for the 1997 special edition, that's no myth. How else did they strike the 1997SE prints? But we all know you don't need an intact o-neg to digitise the film (plus they most likely stored all the parts cut from the o-negs anyway ... mind you many of those parts had deteriorated the most or so they said).

But they're now in the hands of Disney and they don't have a track-record for not caring one bit about preserving the theatrical versions. If they aren't going to release BATB or the Lion King unaltered - two of their classic animated features - then there's not much hope that they'll care to give the Star Wars Trilogy the restoration and release it deserves.