Jetrell Fo said:

skyjedi2005 said:

My faces laserdiscs pressed in japan have neither the sharpness or the saturation of the gout even if they came from the same master. The softness in the picture makes the DVNR smear on especially very grainy scenes less horrible.

I still wonder if they added sharpening to the DVD's, Star Wars looks horrible and unwatchable on the gout DVD. While the laserdisc is certainly passable for 1995.

My Japan "Faces" is this way as well. The U.S. version is much clearer...which set was pressed first?

My set is the US versions but pressed in Japan so no laser rot.

I do have the Japan Definitive collection which also has no rot.

My fixed USA version which came from a sealed copy is so rotten as to almost be unplayable, drop outs in the picture and audio.

Pressed in the USA.

My special widescreen pre THX USA version was also pressed in Japan and no sign of rot.

Both Copies i have of the CAV pan and scan star wars from 1985 pressed in a Michigan factory are rotten. Just for example as to how some USA factories had bad discs.

It is not as if no Japan laserdiscs can be rotters there are some notorious ones, but overall they had cleaner factories and less chance of this problem.