Originally posted by: Laserman
You could never make the pre-THX sets look better or sound better than the THX ones, the noise floor is too high, the colour is all over the place the detail is very soft and the sound is awful - however certain scenes may be worth lifting to help deal with the temporal noise reduction on the THX sets.
That process was already underway before I left.
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The Special Collection may be worth a look, the discs mastered for the Japanese market tended to be of a better quality, so it is worth investigating.
You could never make the pre-THX sets look better or sound better than the THX ones, the noise floor is too high, the colour is all over the place the detail is very soft and the sound is awful - however certain scenes may be worth lifting to help deal with the temporal noise reduction on the THX sets.
That process was already underway before I left.
...
The Special Collection may be worth a look, the discs mastered for the Japanese market tended to be of a better quality, so it is worth investigating.
As far as getting this set goes, perhaps dark_jedi would be prepared to lend his set?