The DV format has it's issues, but does not cause such jaggedness. It's only real problem is blockiness in solid color areas and that's basically just for NTSC. It's not from the DV format, for sure. I would bet money that not only does that shot not improve (in the way of jaggies) with the X0, but that the faces and Japanese DC all look the same. That's what I was saying in my original post, it's just the NTSC disc's transfer. Still, it's greatly appreciated whenever someone takes the time to do some screengrabs and turns the guessing into fact. Would be glad to help out, if I had any of these discs. Lucas has always been ahead of things and it almost looks as if he did a higher resolution transfer (maybe even HD, which means only more reason why we could've had a nice OT release) and then scaled down to 480i. That could certainly cause this. Of course, HD to 480i scaling now can look a lot better, but maybe it didn't do so well in '93, even with what Lucas was using. Whatever the cause, it's from the transfer. It does look a lot like crappy de-interlacing where they just remove every other line, so maybe somewhere along the line in the film>video transfer, this major boner was made. Wouldn't be the 1st or the last time in the case of SW releases. Oh, wait, maybe it was a creative decision!

The US DC set doesn't have the burns, I know I would've noticed those. You're talking of the burns signaling a reel change, correct? I also am not bothered by these. I actually have seen them on DVD releases before (cheapo ones, mind you) on movie channels (70's movies) and in the theater as recently as Harry Potter 3.

Dot crawl does bother me (the main problem with the otherwise great Editdroid set) and usually can be reduced or done away with when using composite and a good capture card, unless this is one of those players that simply outputs the s-video treated signal from the composite. Then there's really nothing that can be done.