If I remember correctly, at the time the GOUT was released it was agreed that there was very little virtue in LaserDisc conversions because the GOUT was the best presentation of that master on video. There was Project XO which was canceled shortly after, which at the time was attempting to mine as much detail as possible from the LaserDiscs by using the best LaserDisc player in the world and doing fancy things to squeeze every drop out of it. With the GOUT, that put an end to all such things.
That said, I also recall the EditDroid version being regarded highly. As far as bonus material, there’d be some LaserDisc-specific content to compile, sure.
Yup. I have no idea if it’d be even worth it to make preservations of specifically the 1989/1990, 1993, and 1995 Laserdiscs to DVD at all because of the 2006 Limited Edition DVDs aka “GOUT”. Even though it could be different, possibly with better bitrate and compression? Not sure but I do have the LD bonus features of those three which someone else made onto DVDs.
No clue if I ought to wait for someone to scan 35mm prints, maybe someone already did, of the 1997 Special Editions. If someone already has those bonus features from the Special Edition Laserdiscs to DVD, then that’s already done and done.
I remember Project X0 but it still should have happened with the specific Laserdiscs to DVD. No heavy clean-up, just MPEG2 onto dual layered DVDs.