ONLY if it's a DVD-9 and 16:9 though! Only for comaprison reasons for the 2006 Official O-OT DVD release of which I'm assuming will look better than ANYONE'S laserdisc transfers including the XØ Project since LucasFilm has direct access to the actual film elements and believe me I believe wholeheartedly that's what their using.
From my understanding, laserdisc has a different black level compared to DVD. So, from what I can tell, what we've been seeing from the laserdisc preservations is that the contrast has been boosted due to the black levels. Sure, calibration would work perfectly but I'm having more time believing the new 2006 set will be far better than what we've seen since as stated before, they'll be derived from actual film elements instead of an inferior format.
Neil S. Bulk is just spouting b.s. that they're using straight off laserdisc transfers. No, they've been quietly working on the film transfers since they have more time since a film isn't coming out and it won't be as rushed.
I'm going to flat out purchase the 2006 release and I'm cautiously optimistic that it's going to blow all the other laserdisc derived projects out of the water in terms of clarity and opacity. Figure that alot of people could rework their various fan-edits into using the 2006 O-OT DVD's and have seperate "mastered from laserdisc" and a "mastered from DVD" releases...
I can't wait to buy the DVD's come September!
And by the way, Han doesn't shoot first anymore. He's the only one shooting.
end of copying and pasting...
I truly think the XØ Project has been quite well going so far but nothing truly beats a master from actual film archival stuff being remastered as stated above (merely speculation) than doing a laserdisc to DVD transfer no matter the equipment. I bet they've been working on this for quite some time and aren't as rushed as they were on the 2004 DVD's. I'm also figuring the 2004 DVD's in this dual release set for the Trilogy will get a silent clean up and fixing with. Like I already stated above, we'll have the 2006 O-OT DVD's to work with in the future rather than the laserdiscs.
There could be many other XØ Projects which deals with laserdisc and not particularly with Star Wars. I'll get into more detail in forum #11.