After seeing boris's screencaps, I was getting ready to reject the GOUT. But screencaps don't mean much compared to moving video. So I spent the afternoon comparing my copy of the NTSC GOUT with the best of the LD transfers I have, which are EditDroid (NTSC) and Moth3r (PAL). I looked at various scenes in all three films, comparing all three versions. I have to say that I agree with The Dark Lord. These are significantly better in color, contrast, sharpness, detail and naturalness of picture than any of the LD rips so far.

Of course, it is an unfair comparison with Moth3r, as I was playing back on NTSC (though I looked at the Doctor M conversion, too). I believe Moth3r may be able to better the quality of the PAL GOUT (if they are indeed upscaled from NTSC), working from the PAL THX LDs.

But for those in NTSC land, the GOUT are, IMHO, the best out there right now.