star wars - Why were some lightsaber effects in A New Hope different quality?

In the below pictures, you can clearly see the difference of quality, when Luke uses Anakin's old lightsaber, its a pale green, almost pure white blade. Its like George Lucas forgot to send this scene to his cgi team and it never got the visual upgrades that Obi-wan's lightsaber did.

Anakin/Luke's Lightsaber was most definitely blue as seen in the 3 prequels and The Empire Strikes back, so for it to be that weird pale green or white colour, seems awefully strange that Lucas never upgraded its visuals. Was this ever address by George?

Obi-wan vs Darth Vader Anakin/Luke Skywalker's Lightsaber

Answer

According to most blogs I read, this was basically special effects fluke. Some claim that his error is corrected in one of the menus on the bonus disc to the OT DVDs.

Remember that original props were all white (src: Wookieepedia)

UPDATE: According to http://www.dvdactive.com/editorial/articles/star-wars-the-changes-part-one.html (archived), here is original theatrical release LS:

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... vs Special Edition's crisper blade:

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... vs. "Green" blade on 2004 DVD release:

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... vs. FINALLY fixed Blue colored blade in Blu-Ray release:

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However: They didn't fix ALL the shots!!!! :(

2004 DVD:

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... vs. Blu-Ray

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Please note that the same linked page also shows differences between Vader's blade in some shots (white vs. red) being fixed

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