Hi Moth3r

Unfortunately I don't have the test captures anymore, the difference was as I said slight, my face had to be about 2 inches or closer to my iMac screen to see the difference. I think the only thing the composite had going for it was it had again slightly less dot-crawl. If you like when I get onto ESB I will do some test captures again to show the difference.

When you say "There is no need to deinterlace" whats the reasoning behind this? I will confess I know very little about interlacing and progressive scan, however I have tried to look this topic up on the web. I read online that when scaling video the process is quicker when the source is progressive rather then interlaced, is this a load of rubbish? I know DVDs can be either interlaced or progressive so I realise there is no advantage in this regard. I know Compressor can convert this ProRes master to H.264 a lot quicker (about 5 hours) when its progressive compared to say 2-3 days if its interlaced!

To do the colour correcting I cropped off the black borders (letterboxing and overscan area) leaving a clean black background generated by my video editing software. I then used a space scene to carefully adjust the blacks until the space background matched the black borders. Talking of blacks, has anyone else with the PAL '97 SE LD set noticed that ANH seems to be darker then ESB and ROTJ or have I got a duff set?

All these snapshots are on their way over to imageshack ;) the current host is a temporary solution!

To A B C I'm not going to let the Blu-Ray release put me off doing this or any other preservation project, mainly because while the video and audio quality in theory should be outstanding assuming LFL can exercise some quality control this time! The actual movies will be based off the 2004 versions which I personally dislike, so unless things change and he at least gives us the OUT on Blu-Ray which I doubt he will this time around, I wont be buying.