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.

In terms of percentage the resolution difference is the same in every NTSC/PAL comparison, so PAL will always be an equal amount better looking than NTSC. Right?

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.

I didn't know there was a difference in sound-quality between the hi-fi and linear track, have you any idea what causes that? About VHS video being that bad, it totally depends on your VCR. I did some transfers with footage recorded and played back for the conversion with my B&O VCR, and the results astound me. It's crisp, I'm telling you!

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

OK, meant reposted...