Yesterday we threw in A New Hope to watch on the new sound system. A couple of things I noticed. Very good LFE with the Millineum Falcon, Star Destroyers and the Death Star. Cool stuff. Also a decent amount of surround activity present for a film from 1977.

While watching it, something came to mind that George Lucas had said many years ago, before the prequels came out. He said the reason for doing the prequels is that they would give you a new perspective of the Original trilogy. Well after watching Episode 3 last week, that gave a new perspective on the Vader-Obi Wan faceoff in A New Hope. Yes the duel itself isn't amazing like many of the prequel lightsaber battles, but the emotional context and weight of their history gave it a different perspective when being viewed now. I thought that was really cool.