I have the chinese boots and they are not very good quality. The dts mix is a fake cooked up mix, and also the channels even on the 5.1 dd are screwed up.

The video quality is not even laserdisc quality since the laserdiscs were copied to s-vhs and then to dvd.

Even the dual layers suck.

Dark Jedi's special edition transfer is better even if it only have the 2 channel digital track and not the ac3. Ac3 i believe is stored analog on the right analog channel and needs an ac3 RF out and decoder to get the track on the laserdiscs.

This was obviously inferior to dvd where the ac3 is already stored digitally.

I have the g'kar it has bad macroblocking incorrect aspect ratio cropped image and fake 5.1 mix upmix of the televised 2.0 also on the disc. Also pal speedup lame. I much prefer ntsc. Though the screengrabs compared to darkjedi's look sharper, it is where playback and watching the movie where it counts.

Too bad the laserdiscs have a soft image and are interlaced. I have mine and the sound mix on the uncompressed digital stereo tracks rocks.

I just never bother to watch them because i hate the special editions.

I remember at one point a site reviewed the g'kar set as having a shaper image than the 2004 dvd set, this was of course before the HD broadcasts became available as bootlegs at 1080 lines of resolution.

As much as i hate the 2004 cuts the image is superior than any previous release, and i would buy them on blu ray today if they were officially available. Despite the very bad color that Lucas chose for the recut.

I've pretty much figured the gout is the best version of the oot lucas will ever give us, it fucking makes me furious but i have the damn dvds and unless the often stalled X-0 project gets done in my lifetime they are the best i will ever get.