Thanks for upping the clip. The transfer looks soft but possibly slightly better in terms of colour and brightness than mine (the poor colour and levels are also evident on my VCR playback, not specifically my captured footage). I suspect that the VHS is just a bad transfer of a lousy source, but your copy may just be that little bit better than mine.
Would you be able to put up a different clip? There is an early scene during filming in Jabba's palace when Mark Hammil and Carrie Fisher are leaning back against Jabba, joking for the camera. That is particularly bad for colour and brightness on my tape, whereas RowMan's is much better in those respects but much, much softer- there is very little detail visible at all. It would be interesting to see a snippet of that sequence from your capture (might I suggest that you recapture in 1 or 2 hour mode- blank DVDs permitting....
) and so compare a number of sources.Thanks,
G