Isn't it just the last laserdisc release with a new transfer of the original crawl tacked on.
This was suppose to be their "closer-to-the-source" answer to our preservation projects.
Since laserdiscs (and their source) are interlaced material, some hack did a really poor de-interlace giving us artifacts that we ourselves have the sense not to create when we make our own transfers.
I've seen that sort of crap before from other bad commercial DVD transfers where they just sloppily dump the laserdisc master to a disc.
The Quiet Man comes to mind right away, but there are many others examples.