I have the widescreen VHS of the OTV. It's gathering dust in the basement, so it may have degraded somewhat with improper storing, but at the same time I doubt it's a good source to work from anyway.
Is this an American VHS? I was not aware of a widescreen VHS anywhere.
And there's a set on Demonoid that's the new 2006 "GOUT" set converted to anamorphic, but "Emprie" has yet to be uploaded, and I don't think the subs are hard-encoded. It'll be the best-looking release of the original theatrical versions of SW, ESB and ROTJ you can find until the X0 project is finished (which will be quite a while from the look of it). If you PM me I can provide you with links to the torrents.
Making something anamorphic is easy - DVD Rebuilder can do it. Was there any color correction or denoising? If all that was done is making it anamorphic, then I could have done it myself, as I have the GOUT set...
i have this laserdisc also, but have not ripped it either..
Do you have a DVD recorder by chance? I'd really love to get my hands on a rip of the Japanese laserdisc, and finding someone with it is hard enough :P
If you have one, would you be willing to record it for me? (If you use 1-hour mode you could do one side per disc and it would be excellent quality)