Originally posted by: Molly
Ouch.

I guess with my 2-year-old computer and 3 megabit DSL I'm lucky then :/

Yes, I'm planning on buying a new computer soon- as soon as I can get to the Apple store. It's a testament to the quality of Apple computers that my iMac has lasted this long.

Originally posted by: Molly
Anyway - the DVD... I think it's sourced from the same master as the DE/THX discs? but then filtered a bit and compressed a bit more, and those filters didn't exactly help the quality...

Yup, they're from the Definitive Collection & Faces THX LD masters.

Originally posted by: strangelove
I'm afraid you really will have to wade through all 89 pages for the answer to this one. Or you could head over to the X0 website and read their GOUT article.

The short answer is that the GOUT is an inferior source because it's been compressed for DVD.

"The Verdict Is In" article? That's the only one I see on the X0 site regarding the GOUT DVDs, and it really doesn't go into why the LDs are better than the DVDs, or compression issues with the GOUT DVDs.

I thought I remembered Zion saying something once in this thread (around the time the GOUT DVDs came out) about the resolution of the DVDs and the X0 captures being about equal (?)

Oh and.....

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(sorry, I couldn't resist)