No "new material" as such. This laserdisc (a bootleg, of course) was made in 1993 from the *original* 96m Director's Cut of the film. As in, the version that Sam Raimi delivered to Universal for approval. Universal demanded significant cuts, theaters ended up with the 81m version ... and, years later, the 96m "Director's Cut" was spliced back together by Anchor Bay and MGM and released on DVD.

The laserdisc has two significant things about it -- since it's the *original* director's cut, and all the official releases are *re-created* director's cuts, any mistakes in the recreations wouldn't be in here -- and can be discovered by a comparison. (I'm sure everyone knows that the Anchor Bay version has a few mistakes and missing shots in it -- right?)

Also, this laserdisc is fullscreen -- and since AOD was shot open-matte, that means that this disc actually has *more picture information* than the recreated director's cuts, which are all cropped to widescreen.

So, no "new material", but it's got more picture information than any director's cut currently available, and a mistake-free roadmap of what the director's cut really looked like.

-Jeph!