Originally posted by: Karyudo
You don't have to ask for permission to exercise your fair use rights. They are rights. We do not have any legislated "fair use" rights. They are not rights. I know Australia is thinking of adding some "format-shifting" rights, we don't have them, there's no plans to have them, and even if we did have them copying someone else's transfer would still be breaching them. Ergo, the only legal way to own a transfer from Laserdisc to DVD of the Star Wars Trilogy in New Zealand is to write to the appropriate distributors of the LaserDisc (20th Cent Fox Home Video – I presume) and ask for permission to do it. Of course, they probably won't give it to me, since I can own the official DVD.
Even if this were true, and assuming you had do do it yourself (ie, the upgrade "clips" are made available for download to add to your DVD)... the ever so slight difference simply would not be worth the trouble. You don't have to ask for permission to exercise your fair use rights. They are rights. We do not have any legislated "fair use" rights. They are not rights. I know Australia is thinking of adding some "format-shifting" rights, we don't have them, there's no plans to have them, and even if we did have them copying someone else's transfer would still be breaching them. Ergo, the only legal way to own a transfer from Laserdisc to DVD of the Star Wars Trilogy in New Zealand is to write to the appropriate distributors of the LaserDisc (20th Cent Fox Home Video – I presume) and ask for permission to do it. Of course, they probably won't give it to me, since I can own the official DVD.
The EditDroid Star Wars has the original 1977 crawl -- and it had it about two years ago. It had a recreation.
Have you got proof, or is this another assumption like your previous one about the crawl "almost certainly" being CG...All in all, I'm definitely anticipating that some new projects (most notably the X0 Project, but possibly Moth3r's v1.1) could outdo the official release, by combining the best features of the GOUT discs and new LD caps. Not to mention the fact that the DVD version is almost certainly CG, same as EditDroid. Rubbish. There is no valid reason to suspect the retail DVD isn't authentic.- First of all, PAL-sourced projects probably have a bit better resolution than the GOUT discs -- especially where resolution deficiencies are punished.
<Zion's site> I beg to differ.- Several projects keep the uncompressed PCM audio from the LDs, which is better than the Dolby Digital used on the GOUT DVDs.