I figured you guys wouldn't be using the SE laserdiscs but I'm curious if anyone knows how they (at least the unaltered shots) match up. Specifically I'd love to find a comparison of in the desert with the droids and Luke and Owen puchasing the droids. Those shots looked the most deteriorated before '97. The other thing that would be interesting to compare is the shot of 3PO following the binary sunset where he begs not to be deactivated. It looks like a very poor contrast ratio. Isn't there a good ld>dvd transfer? It would be nice to have in the screenshots comparison.
Were any THX processes like dirt concealment used for the '97 laserdiscs?