RE: Star Wars Tv Specials DVD - I managed to grab this from Demonoid, just before the ROTS got leaked to the internet, and the MPAA went on pirate crackdown - the upshot of this being demonoid removing anything connected with star wars from their site at the time, and this was one of those casualties.
The quality of the video looks great on the whole, no noise as far as i can tell, and it look like a dvd recorder capture. However, during between ad breaks on Animal Icons, and the E Behind the Scenes, the video gets noticeably darker for some reason, implying different capture settings at some point - not sure if they stopped recording at the ads or edited them out later. The other downside of this disc is navigation. Like you said, it has no menu, and I seem to remember there was an issue with chapter points on it as well - either a lack of, or just too many.
I can't find the original disc right now, but I did rip it to my harddrive with the intent of reauthoring it with better navigation/menu. As it stands I've only got as far as correcting the darker vieo segments, and giving it sensible chapter stops. The menu still needs work.
edit: just found the original disc disguised as a blank - that'll teach me not to write the title on it. I was wrong about the chapter points, they are sensibly laid out, but the disc is broken up into 17 titles of 10 minutes each (the bits betwen ad breaks) - which causes a problem with some players/programs. e.g. chapter advancing in powerdvd doesn't doesn't jump to the next title.
And in other news, there's a torrent over at thepiratebay for SW 3 - Backstroke of the West DVD. With optional Engrish subtitles.