Nope, I guarantee you they're not. If you zoom in on the pictures you will see less jaggies in the new version but based on the screen caps overall quality appears to be better in the original release. Keep in mind though that a single frame capture is not a good measure of picture quality, you really need to compare video clips not screen caps. Trust me this new transfer is at least of equal quality and in many cases better, especially where there was compression artifacts in the original release there are almost none in the new release. In any case though don't throw away those original TR-47 releases just yet, especially if you own a standard television. My main gripe about this new release is that the black bars at the top and bottom of the picture aren't quite as black as the ones generated by my DVD player so I can see the seperation point, though if you own a widescreen set this won't be an issue.