The DVD recorder I captured this on seemed to have a pretty lousy combfilter afterall, it did almost get rid of all the dotcrawl but at the same time it caused other artifacts like color smear, desaturated colors and loss of detail. Didn't think that was even possible, but this machine did it (a pretty recent Panasonic model). So I went with a capture letting the LD player do the combfiltering. The median script proved to be better than an average for this one. (dot-crawling was about the same)
Anyway, when I find the time to upload this for you, do you want to have it color corrected or do you just want me to release it as it is, along with a bright canyon where R2 get captured? Even though this transfer overall have pretty nice colors, it also have its own set of minor color issues:
A few frames in this scene have some very bad artifacts:
I do know that some people enjoy to just have the transfers preserved as is, so I was just wondering.
If I should try to describe the overall quality of the transfer- take the Faces release, remove the DVNR and blown out whites, reframe it by cropping the sides of the image, add some saturation and you basically have this LD. A few more samples, so you know what to expect from it. It seems like I managed to get rid of all those "crosstalk-artifacts".
Look sir, droids: http://www.sendspace.com/file/kbfln8
Binary sunset: http://www.sendspace.com/file/orcl3q
Destruction of Alderaan: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0WY6SBNA
as you can see it is very dirty, instead of using DVNR back in '93 they should've made a new IP instead. IMO, this look better and worse than GOUT at the same time, it have the same bad aliasing as seen in the THX/GOUT transfer, it's basically GOUT before it was DVNR'ed but it will never come close to that quality even though it is smearfree, in the end it will be just another LD-transfer, but I think some of you will appreciate to have this smearfree alternative anyway, I know that I will. I could of course apply some anti-aliasing, filter out the dot-crawl and rainbowing, but I think it will hurt more than it will help. Now on to THX before I get SW-insane. ;)