Originally posted by: Grinder
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So popped that one in, and it blew me right off of my chair! I really didn't expect NTSC to be that inferior to PAL.
... Glad you enjoyed the disc. NTSC as a format is not significantly inferior to PAL, just in this case it's a different laserdisc source that seems to be better. Make an NTSC DVD from the PAL laserdiscs and you should still get better results than a transfer from the D.C. disc.

Originally posted by: Grinder
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I have quite some experience in VHS>DVD transfers, and have found that with a good VCR the image can be near DVD quality, VERY near. But the thing always giving away the source is the considerable amount of hiss in the sound.
... I would say the opposite; VHS video is much worse than DVD, however audio from hi-fi VHS (not the linear track - that does suffer from hiss) has an excellent signal-to-noise ratio.
Originally posted by: Grinder
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I did notice an occasional line drop-out and the two color shifts, at first I thought "huh, how could he have missed those?" but I just read the entire thread and found out you had, but didn't fix them (why?).
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Because I only noticed after the video had been encoded.
Originally posted by: Grinder
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P.S. Can't wait to see ESB uploaded on a.b.starwars or MySpleen

ESB has already been uploaded to a.b.sw.