I believe this is the first time that actual moving video from the X0 capture has been seen by those outside the project?
I was impressed with the absence of noise in the X0 capture. I remember Laserman explaining the build quality of the player minimises analogue video noise, and that is clearly the case in this clip.
Unfortunately the aspect ratio of the video is off, it seems that the vertical resolution has been compressed when it should have been stretched. (Or was that just so that the before and after could be shown in the splitscreen arrangement?)
Well done with the clean up process.
However, it is interesting to compare the "before" shot against a capture from the French laserdiscs. A few of the speckles appear in the same frames in both transfers. The PAL version has one large orange blob that the NTSC version doesn't have. On the whole, however, this shot is much cleaner on the PAL disc.
I would love to know the history behind the creation of the laserdisc masters. I hope that the PAL master - which seems to be superior apart from the horrible burn marks in the Tantive corridor - is going to be used for the new PAL DVDs.