doubleofive said:

...and it looks like the crawl is positioned different. Not sure what to make of it. The Tattooine matte seems to go farther to the right of frame of either version. The Star Wars logo is MUCH bigger than the other comparisons. Go ahead and play with them, see what you guys can figure out.

If I shrink the aspect ratio of the main logo down to the standard of the other two, it is definitely squished. I'll have to play with it more later.

Well, the whole opening shot was remade so it isn't that strange that it doesn't match and no transfer is framed/cropped the same. Maybe these will help http://aptirrelevance.com/otscreenshots/screenshots.php?shot=1 if you're going to adjust the slightly streched images.

Ok, the ESB-scanline-madness continues...

I just went through the standard-play Laserdisc of Empire which, Darth Mallwalker was kind to upload. This pan & scan US LD transfer from 1985 have another odd mix of scanlines in it. :) It have the same dot-pattern on Vader's viewscreen and vertical scanlines on the Executor - holograms like the GOUT & SE but it also have the horizontal scanlines on the Emperor which the GOUT doesn't have... how many video masters were made for Empire!? Oh, I almost forgot, the Hoth shield generator shot is like the other transfers, scanlines & green displays, which makes that glitch/or early version of the shot unique to the GOUT transfer. I can post pictures of them later if you want me to.