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Post #369977

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Moth3r
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Japanese Special Collection Star Wars Trilogy "Take 2" (* unfinished project *)
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Date created
17-Jul-2009, 4:41 AM
g-force said:
budwhite said:

or is it just a transfer in LD quality.

No, it's worse than LD quality as seen by a lack of vertical resolution.

The GOUT DVDs are transfers from the D-1 tapes that were also the masters for the Def Col Laserdiscs.

budwhite said:

Does it use the extra resolution of DVD?

No.

budwhite said:

It sure has more detail than my LDs...

More detail than your LD player.

-G

In theory, a D-1 transfer to DVD should be better than a transfer to laserdisc, because of the higher bandwidth (6.75MHz vs 5.5MHz) which translates into more horizontal resolution. Also DVDs store video as digital YUV and laserdiscs are analogue composite.

In practice, there is more horizontal resolution on the GOUT discs. However, for some odd reason, the muppet who did the transfer decided to apply a vertical blur to the DVD (perhaps as part of the IVTC process). This means there is less vertical detail on the DVDs.