Originally posted by: Rebelscum
Anyone had a chance yet to sit down and watch Arnie's efforts and compare with the others?

At last I did find some free time to sit down and watch arne's ANH (arne, you have not sent me ESB yet. I'm just telling you because you wrote you did, and maybe you didn't by mistake).
Anyway, I don't like to compare any preservation effort with another one, that is a rule I never broke in this forum.
But I can concur to what arne has previously said about his transfer.
Most apparent thing you notice when you view the film is the absense of noise reduction.
Suprisingly, I actually liked it, it feels more "theatrical", like ffdshow's "movie effect" or something.
Image is indeed soft, but I think that the overall impression with the presence of the noise is that there is no detail loss.
Image is bright enough IMHO.
Anyway I'm not an expert in this stuff, this is only an effort to discribe the feeling I got by watching it.
As I'm not familiar with many techical terms used in this forum, I hope my description managed to make some sense.

I will be uploading this transfer @ myspleen this friday, so whoever is intrested, stay alert.
If I get ESB, I will upload it as well very soon.