I always remembered them from the home video versions of the 80's and early 90's. These releases had the brightness of the image turned up to accomodate daytime viewing, and likely my television was a bit bright as well. The DVD release IMO represents the best release ever in terms of garbage mattes since it is very unnaturally dark and thus hides the mattes very well (though this is not intentional). Gaffer i suspect your television is not completely caliberated correctly.