I think the noisy/grainy GOUT picture is mainly caused by the quite high horizontal resolution. The Laserdiscs that used the same mastertapes would not be able to reproduce much more than 500 pixels, whereas the GOUT really seem to have the full 720 pixels resolution of DVD (at least for the niose and the grain

). Also the GOUT picture seem to been sharpened without first doing a proper noisefiltering and this would emphasise the noise even more.

One other flaw that's been mentioned from time to time is the high-contrast over-bright 'video look' picture of the GOUT (this also applies to the NTSC and PAL THX LD releases).

Here's some examples compared to the THX WOW DVD:

GOUT (clipped white levels and missing stars, also poor vertical resolution)

http://img60.imageshack.us/img60/1614/gout1fd0.jpg

THX WOW (hmm, nice anamorphic picture)

http://img332.imageshack.us/img332/9732/wow1zx6.jpg

GOUT (clipped white levels and missing stars)

http://img347.imageshack.us/img347/16/gout2lh5.jpg

THX WOW (hmm, nice anamorphic picture)

http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/3720/wow2hm7.jpg

GOUT (clipped white levels, and hmm very good horizontal resolution)

http://img327.imageshack.us/img327/5342/gout3ni1.jpg

THX WOW (hmm, nice anamorphic picture, horizontal res. could be better though)

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/4063/wow3er7.jpg