zombie84 said:

In the caps where you can see the dot pattern--you can also see how it creates the optical illusion of horizontal scanlines. Look at the left side of the screen, near Ozzel. Very clearly looks like horizontal lines. But it's just an optical illusion, because in most of the rest of the frame you can see its actually grid-pattern dots.

This does of course make one re-evaluate the shots where its fully scanlines with no trace of dots. It really does look like an alternate version of the shot without dots, but based on the optical illusion seen in the shot with dots, this is in severe doubt.

The Emperor hologram...maybe same thing. It's all a bit difficult to say now. There are other instances of the poor verticle resolution of the GOUT--one that comes to mind is that in Moth3r's transfer of the LD, the final shot of the film you can see extra details on R2's pannelling that in the GOUT is just a solid blob (I think this is on the stickied screenshot page in the forums).

I agree about these other shots, it's hard to now for sure but trust me on this, the Emperor hologram have scanlines, that's no optical illusion on my part, they are clearly defined in every transfer minus the GOUT. Yes we do know the PAL LD's show better vertical detail/resolution in some shots, like R2's panneling in the end ceremony but this is an NTSC LD rip coming from the same master that have better detail in this shot than the GOUT, how the hell is that even possible, George Walton Lucas, Jr.?! The GOUT transfers never ceases to amaze me in their quality.