Darth Mallwalker said:

I hope y'all can see this

http://hotfile.com/dl/85328353/6108903/

codec is FFVH (ffdshow's Huff)
It contains the first forty-nine frames from PVI pressing 1425-84
(which might or might not be same as GOUT's first forty-nine)

I suspect it was always a grid pattern (i.e. scanlines in both dimensions)
We just don't have enough horizontal resolution to see the vertical lines in the wide LD caps.

Remember in the best-case scenario (if you had a HLD-X0 that wasn't twenty years old, or maybe aleksbmw's Hercules) you'd only get ~425 lines of horizontal resolution.
What would happen if you shrunk the SE image to ~425 width, then blew it up again. Would the vertical lines still be distinguishable?

GOUT might have shown them . . . if DVNR hadn't smeared them away already.

Perhaps dark_jedi's pan/scan cap should have shown the vertical lines, but maybe his old player was a hunk of junk or otherwise under-performing, and that's why he upgraded to CLD-79 Elite....

Thanks for going through the trouble and posting a clip. I agree with you, the bad vertical resolution of the GOUT combined with the bad horizontal resolution of the '86/'92 LD's rips could very much be the reason of the things we're seeing. It was me who started this whole mystery that could easily be just an video resolution-thing, so sorry about that. But... ;) it could of course still be an alternative print as Zombie said of course, I haven't checked yet if this could possible be an alternative going by info from the making of book. Just to be geeky enough, could we have more footage from you, Mallwalker? The Emperor holo from the DC LD and the Vader "dot-screen"?