g-force said:aside from a slight increase in top cropping for ANH, it should be the same. There seems to be some bad lines at the top and bottom of the film that I have always debated on cutting off or not. These are even worse on Empire and ROTJ, so I decided that they should all go.
-G
Could you show us an example of these lines. The laserdisc transfers I obtained had a line at the top and bottom that looked halfway faded compared to the rest of the picture. I think it might have something to do with the laserdisc and video master originally being interlaced. If I went frame by frame by constantly hitting the pause button, I noticed the frame seemed to shift up and down a line every frame. So maybe the end lines of resolution are combined with the black letterbox part so they look half visible at normal speed. I don't see this viewing the Gout on my tv so I assumed it was cropped out already by Lucasfilm for the dvd release.