The other thing to remember is that LD quality was the shit until HD TV came along. Also, the LDs were from Digital masters if I recall when they were first cleaned up back in the mid 90's. So the quity of the masters when transfered to DVD should be better than the LDs. But this is early speculation so far. I know for a fact about the film cleaning so it may be a new transfer from a clean telecine for all we know.