If you're going for the best quality, don't even think about buying the NTSC DVD's. On top of that, the vertical resolution of LD is 480 for NTSC and 576 for PAL (same as DVD) it only differs horizontally. As can be read here. Of course everyone here is supposed to be in state of euphoria about the upcoming release, and if it will really be straight transfers, without screwed up color/contrast/brightness BEYOND REPAIR as on the '04 DVD's, video-wise the LDs will indeed be obsolete. As a LD fanatic, I regret to say it (also because the SW LDs will be worth a lot less money than they are now) but that's just a fact. The main thing is, that has yet to be seen. Personally I have the feeling they will tamper the footage either 1: to let the ESE look better, or 2: to "enhance" them and give them the same appearance as the '04 DVDs. In the case of the latter option, the material will be useless for any OT recreation attempt, as with the '04 DVDs. Fan edits can be entertaining, but any random VHS or LD transfer has more OT spirit than an ESE DVD with some desperate polishing applied to it. To give one practical example, the brightness/constrast levels on the DVD have resulted in a LOT of detail loss in the dark areas, beyond repair, beyond getting it to look OT. That is one of the reasons why the X0 project may still look better than the upcoming official release.