Moth3r said:
So PowerDVD says the audio is Dolby Digital 5.1 EX 448kbps. I thought the maximum AC3 datarate on a laserdisc was 384kbps? Or is PowerDVD giving the wrong information? (Too lazy to demux and check myself.)

Also, the official R1 NTSC DVD has horrendous halos due to edge enhancement (the R2 PAL disc had them as well, but not as bad). I've read that the HDTV source still had some halos, but was much better. Anyone with the R1 DVD want to do some screenshot comparisons?

Its correct when reporting 448kbps but i don't know why its reporting Dolby Digital EX as that flag was disabled when encoding the AC3 in vegas. It was impossible to just splice the audio from the 3 sides of the laserdisc because there was a second gap in the audio between sides 2 & 3. I had to demux the audio to 6 seperate wavs for each side, then sync it in vegas and patch up the missing audio using the DVD. i chose to use 448kbps because i didn't want to degrade the audio by encoding it back to 384kbps and also some older DVD players have problems playing 384kbps 5.1 audio

The halo effect is still present in the HDTV transfer. I'm actually starting to think that the halo effect has always been there. Its present in the trailers also. The HDTV transfer is a different one to the DVD, yet the sharpening halo effects remain. Very worrying.