captainsolo said:

I think we were lucky to even get THX on Laserdisc. I don't think they would have had a video master, so they probably made one from their archived print of the director's re-release. I agree with SilverWook's thought about it possibly being light coming in from the telecine. With it being in the corner I'd say maybe even leaking in from sprocket holes that were damaged. That used to happen on some of my 16mm student projects.

Interesting. Overall, I think this transfer looking pretty good, especially compared to other films of this age released on LD in the early nineties, some scenes are worse than others but sometimes it look surprisingly good.

I have actually no problem with the dirt on this transfer except those two distracting things in the left of frame, they could've easily made it less apparent if they had just centered the framing like they did on the PAL release, the NTSC transfer is mostly cropped on the right side causing problem with the films stylish cinematography in a couple of scenes. That along with the oversharpened image maybe makes the PAL widescreen LD release superior even though it losing more picture-info overall.

I absolutely don't want to use any degraining on it but do anyone got any thoughts and suggestions on the haloing/edge enhancement in this transfer? As I understand it, if I try to reduce it with filtering I'll just causing damage to the rest of the picture, resulting in a softer image, you cannot get rid of it completely, the damage cannot be undone, or am I wrong?