Octorox said:
C3PX said:
Perhaps it is just because you are so used to seeing the crystal clear, clean and bubbly, overly bright, wet & soapy 2004 versions?

If anything the DVDs are too dark and high contrast with botched colors, they are no way "overly bright". The restoration is actually great aside from the crushed blacks and whites and the color correction. The GOUT DVDs on the other hand, are grainer than any LD preservation...maybe it's just because they are sharper, maybe not. There is certainly some dupe grain on them.

I agree. The GOUT DVD's are grainer than the lasers. That I think is because the lasers are so soft, the grain isn't as noticeable. When you get to DVD with more resolution and a sharper image, the grain is more apparent.

I also agree that the "special edition" dvd's are no good. Way to dark, messed up color, switched surround channels on A New Hope, bad sound overall on A New Hope, etc, just overall a mess. I took the GOUT DVD's and used the avisynth script that G-Force created and I love the results. The image quality far surpasses the lasers, and I use a Pioneer HLD-X9 player. Sound quality on the lasers is still far superior to the DVD's though.