Oldschooljedi said:

My GOUT DVD's will only collect dust now.

I totally agree. Between this and Adywan's ESB reconstruction the only GOUT I have any use for is for SW. And at the moment I think I'm using the GForce version or pwned I can't remember.

Unfortunately SW is my favourite film and the one I watch more often. I know Adywan said he'll be doing a reconstruction of it in the future, which is awesome, but the sad thing is no matter how many years that is off in the future he'll still surely beat a Lucasfilm restoration.

Any way, I downloaded the DVD5 two nights ago and sat down last night with a glass of wine intending to scan through it on my 50inch tv (previously only watch the mkv on my computer monitor). Well I ended up watching almost 3/4 of it instead (scanned through the battle of endor) with a couple of extra glasses of wine. Pretty epic.

I had the same wow reaction as watching Adywans ESB reconstruction, was it last May? Sure it's not perfect but neither is Adywan's and what in this world is. But it's pretty damn close to my personal viewing preference without being a true theatrical restoration. And with Lucas being such a shithead it's much more than adequte as my go to for watching ROTJ.

I also noticed the black frames already mentioned. I just thought it was my dvd/player being a bitch.

A tiny issue, that may not even be an issue:

This shot looked weird and out of the ordinary noticeable. Is it the compression that's caused it? I checked the mkv and it's the same. Maybe the DVD9 will clear it up. Watching it in motion it looks a bit blocky.