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By the way, I have not any LD based on a smear-free master, based on what Moth3r replied some posts before... or not?!?

So I decided to find the truth, because, as Mulder says, "the truth is out there"... and finally I found this thread.

Reassuming all, it *SEEMS* there is a smear-free (so, AFAIK, DVNR-free too) master that is not "shrinking"... ANH LD with cat.#1130-85.

Now, it happens that my french PAL LD has cat.#113037... maybe it's just a coincidence, but... check the following comparisons (all the first three images are just taken from the former thread).

Then, to me, the PAL LD master is the same of the smear-free edition, that is, if I'm not wrong, the Special Widescreen Edition (SWE).

Now, I'm sure Moth3r is more expert than me about these things, because he said the PAL master is NOT DVNR free, but in the linked thread he's not talked about this issue...

At the end, is the PAL master DVNR-free or not? If yes, then the SWE should be the same, and so not smear-free, as it seems they have the same master...

I'm lost now... please save me ;-)

Waiting for your comments!

The THX PAL Laserdiscs had DVNR applied like the US THX LD's (GOUT), it isn't entirely smear-free, it's just less agressive on the PAL-transfers, like Moth3r pointed out, there is motion trailing artifacts on your Landspeeder screen-caps albeit nowhere near as horrible like on their US counterparts.

The unique smear-free Laserdisc talked about in Mallwalker's thread is an entirely different beast, it's a NTSC LD mastered just before the Definitive Collection LD set in '93.

The Spanish LD seems to have very nice colors. :)