Originally posted by: skyjedi2005 now we get to the other subject aspect ratio the laserdiscs and widescreen vhs are letterbox. not sure if the dvb broadcasts were 2:35:1 anamorhpic or 4:3 letterbox . the set i have of gkar is anamorphic i think but i might have been stretched to anamorphic by the dvd creator, unless the person could be contacted to see whether or not it was oar. oh shit i just remembered that the gkar is slighly cropped might be 1:78:1 or some shit.

the gkar has a sharper picture than any laserdisc sourced dvd being pal and not ntsc but it plays back at pal speed so unless you enjoy pal speedup it is crap. plus their is some blockiness in the image in some areas from compression, maybe. i obviously cannot say whether it is in the raw capped broadcast or not.

I'm pretty sure the Gkar, TB, Reivax and the Flunk release are all genuine anamorphic transfers, although Gkar and TB were probably captured from the analog video output of a DVB receiver, but you're right Gkar, TB and I think Reivax appear to be slightly cropped especially at the bottom and maybe the AR also is slightly off, not much but maybe more equal to 2.25-2.30:1 or so.

I think the Flunk release should be correct AR though as it's claimed to be a digital transfer from a master tape, although as already mentioned the Flunk has several other quality issues.

Still using video from Gkar, TB, and Reivax and combine it with high quality audio capture from some of the SE LDs one should be able to put together very decent PAL and NTSC '97 SE version DVDs.