skyjedi2005 said:

I aLso have the japan star wars definitive collection which is rot free unlike its american counterpart. which oddly has a darker transfer.

actually, it's probably not darker. while i may not get all the technicalites exactly right, the reason japanese laserdiscs (& other home video formats) look lighter when played on american televisions is because the setting for "black" is different in each country. I don't remember the name of the scale or units used to measure this (i.r.e.? maybe?) but i believe "black" is zero in japan, while it's like 7 or 8 in the U.S.?