I've finally seen this disc and I think they did a very good job on this, I agree with zombie that a more subtle degraining of the picture than the g-force script is recommended, I've not seen his latest effort though, I did an encode of his v.4 something... so much can of course have been improved since then, loved his stabilizing and anti-aliasing of the picture though. And I'm looking forward to dark_jedi's encodes of it. Anyway, the improved contrast levels and sharpness on this disc helps to make it look more cinematic and detailed somehow but as some before me have already said the darker picture also crush details in some parts so it's a compromise I guess. I think one of the reasons it's also sharper is that it lack some anti-aliasing, also a matter of what you prefer. But degraining or not, IMO the Gout video can never look like film no matter what you do, but if you degrain the picture you will lose the last information that's available on these discs and that's not much, no matter if it's dirt or real detail, even the professional auto degraining process can't decide what's dirt or not, just take a look at the '04 DVD when Luke comes back to his burning homestead and the landspeeder-window was mistaken as dirt by the cleaning process.

But this is one of the best I've seen so far, but I still prefer my own dual layer encode of Moth3r's pwnage script but with the colors almost turned back to Gout levels. ;) but it would be nice to include g-force stabilizing to it in the future. Also the menus on this disc alone makes it worth to download, very professional looking, a real love letter to the fans of this film. Thanks again for sharing.