Whats funny is, people have asked more often the quality difference between the final version and the uncompressed version of my capture (an irrelevant question which you already know the answer to) more often than how it actually compares to a DVD. Basically, on a scale of 1 to 10 if film and HD are 10, DVD is 9, I would put laserdiscs (and thus my DVDs) around an 8... and VHS at 5. So, LDs aren't going to look as good as a DVD, but it will be a major improvement over VHS. If theres one thing that I prefer on my discs vs the official DVDs, its that there are a few stupid quality control issues that they apparently didn't notice on the official A New Hope disc. Namely, the fanfare at the beginning of the assault on the death star is virtually inaudible for some reason. Video quality wise, they seem to have thoroughly screwed with the color on A New Hope to the point where some scenes have completely blown out reds and it overall just looks disgusting. On the whole, the legit DVD is of course sharper. But then, there is no "legit DVD" of the non special edition version, so this is probably the best you can do on that for now.