Originally posted by: Karyudo
I don't think that's true, based on the many differences I see on the LDs. If you can prove your statements, I'd be happy to concede the point. But so far, my empirical observations are that there is very little chance that the PAL and NTSC discs came from the same SD master.
The laserdiscs were mastered from different masters, yes, in fact it appears the 1993 and 1995 releases had different masters - but those masters were made from the 1993 SD digital restoration - which is the source they're using for DVD. The framing on the VHS could be different as well, because they would have created VHS masters specially for that as well. By the way how different is the framing? And are you sure that most of the differences you're talking about might just be the absence of optical wipes between LD sides? I don't think that's true, based on the many differences I see on the LDs. If you can prove your statements, I'd be happy to concede the point. But so far, my empirical observations are that there is very little chance that the PAL and NTSC discs came from the same SD master.