OmegaMattman said:
Anyhooo, after glancing at the first couple of AVI files, I must say this transfer is excellent, aside from the dot-crawl issues mentioned earlier. In fact, during some of the opening bits, I saw less loss of vertical detail than I did on GOUT...specifically, during those early close-ups on Artoo. I wonder if this could be overlaid on GOUT to clean-up some of that detail.
I have not seen this transfer myself yet, but I'm willing to believe you. I saw this thing on the Emperor hologram in Empire, where the DC LD preservation had detail that's missing in the GOUT: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Complete-Comparison-of-Special-Edition-Visual-Changes/post/452971/#TopicPost452971 looks more like interlace pattern on those pics though, but those are the actual scanlines, they are completely gone in the GOUT-transfer. But this is actually like comparing shit vs. shit.