Originally posted by: THX That's the kind of question LFL should be able (and happy) to answer easily.

Or boris

Or maybe we could ask Fox in france.

Originally posted by: Zion
I'd say that the PAL and NTSC THX LDs are from the same transfer.

My theory is that the same print that was NTSC telecined in 1993 for the '93 and '95 NTSC THX releases, was PAL telecined in 1995 probably here in Europe and by that time the print was more damaged and had to be re-spliced a couple of places, which would explain the different dirt and scratches and the missing frames, and the '95 PAL 'THX' process didn't bother to remove the burn marks.

So I believe that it's the same print but different transfers. And that there should have been possibly a D1 PAL master and/or at least a couple of D2 PAL mastertapes done in 1995, but whether they still excist is another question.