But the Gout is about the equivalence of a raw X0 capture from the Definitive Collection. (I know the X0 team claims their capture is better but I figure it's close enough to call it even.) Basically, what the Gout (and the X0 gives) is the quality of the 1993 master without analogue video noise dotcrawl, or other junk present in most laserdisc/vcr playback. It's a lot easier to see the smearing on the Gout than my cowclops (anyone else not like that name?) dvd's because the whole picture on those has more blur, further made worse by digital compression and the double black bars. (which should have been fixed) I don't think Sansweet was lying at all about the 2006 dvd's when he said he had never seen the original movies look better.

The thing that makes a picture look good is lack of interference, generation loss or blockiness and other junk. The Gout has virtually none of this that was not already present on the '93 master.

I'm still looking forward to this because I think this is the only project sourced solely from oot footage to have a chance of beating the Gout.

The only way we could get a better video source beyond this project would be if there was some way to get a hold of the Special Collection, Pal THX and THX fullscreen master tapes. Or the anamorphic video master of the '97 versions that was used in Empire of Dreams.