Just about everything else has been restored or re-released by Eastwood and / or Leone so now i'm waiting patiently (for now ) for Hang 'em High. Anyone know of any plans to restore this dvd movie?

That's not quite true. There's a good many of of his Universal movies - Joe Kid, Two Mules For Sister Sara, The Beguiled and particularly High Plains Drifter among others - which even though they are available on DVD, could still stand a clean up, 5.1 sound remix and "special edition" treatment. I'd be VERY down with an SE edition of High Plains Drifter, more so than Hang 'em High, although I wouldn't mind that either.