It wasn't that long ago that Laserdiscs were the best quality home video format you could buy. Okay... it was 15 years ago, that's not that long. SE fans have forgotten that Lucas made them wait until 2004 for DVD's... even TPM was released on VHS in 1999/2000 and not on DVD! It's like he wanted to wait until the last possible moment to release the films in the DVD format; however there were so many different LD releases before that!

After watching my own GOUT/SE blend of SW, I was happy with the result. However I think for a small number of some of the worst DVNR affected scenes... like the speeder posted above... that it *may* be better to replace the scene with an LD cap.

I'd like to see a good smere-free NTSC disc captured, only because the Pioneer HLD-X9 will be a far better player than any available PAL player and probably provide much better picture if the source LD is good.