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Quite so. D1 tape is digital component video with 4:2:2 chroma. The GOUT still wouldn't look as good as that, of course, since mpeg2 compression of a noisy image will bollocks it up with compression artefacts in some spots even with a high bitrate, but it's definitely closer to the source than anything else.
The master tape was referred to as D1 in the Widescreen Review article that discussed the creation of the 1993 audio mixes. Surprising that they'd use that instead of the composite D2 format, which was more commonly used due to cost and lower bandwidth requirement, but I guess they wanted to do the thing properly. D1's resolution is listed as 720 x 486, so theoretically the GOUT should reproduce all its detail; though there are reports of blurring and IVTC errors in some spots, so perhaps it wasn't really transferred to dvd as well as it could have been. And then there's that weird discrepancy between RotJ's image detail in the PAL and NTSC dvd's, and who knows what would account for that . . .
But the 1993 master is very screwy in many ways regardless of what source it's viewed on--that much is certain. ;)