zombie84 said:

The EOD documentary was basically outsourced to a bunch of documentary filmmakers. My guess, and one that others have made, is that they simply captured the Laserdiscs or used the GOUT master. The footage is actually not very amazing quality. Has anyone ever done a side by side with the GOUT?

I doubt it since people have said that Empire of Dreams was broadcast in HD. No one in their right mind would take a laserdisc non-anamorphic image, and up-res it for a HDTV broadcast. It would look horrendous. While the footage isn't like brand new, it definitely looks better than the GOUT DVD. Some of the footage looks like it was sourced from an old print that, while in presentable quality, definitely hadn't had any real digital remastering done. Dirt and scratches on some frames, for example. Again, the footage has no blue color timing which was there in the '97 SEs (the 2004 DVDs just manipulated the coloring further).

-NJM